John Wyndham is known to all lovers of the fantasy world of literature. His books captivated readers with their original subjects and the relevance of ideas. All the works of the author are focused on disasters in which people, trying to adapt to the situation, show extraordinary abilities and qualities. The writer reveals the characters of the characters in emergency situations, which makes his science fiction novels unique.
Young years
John Wyndham was born in July 1903, in the UK. When the boy was 8 years old, his parents divorced, and the future writer and his brother were forced to spend all their childhood in closed schools and boarding schools. His father was a well-known lawyer, and the boy wanted to grow up and master the same profession.
In 1925, John Wyndham tried to find himself in this world, so he had to learn more than one profession. But in the end, he found himself writing fantastic articles for an American magazine. Like all writers, Wyndham used many aliases. His favorite writers were John Benyon and John Benron Harris.
Confession
During the war, John served as censor of the Ministry of Information. In the same period, the future writer falls into the war zone as a signalman. After the war ended, he learned that his brother had successfully published several books, and inspired John decided to abandon his pseudonyms and leave his real name.
Shortly afterwards, John Wyndham released the science fiction novel Triffids Day. The name of the author becomes new in the world of literature, and readers are curiously buying books from the shelves.
The first success allowed the writer to publish a series of novels. John Wyndham, whose books gained incredible popularity, had his own unique writing style, which was very different from other authors. He skillfully captured the reader’s attention not only in disasters, but also described in detail the characters' characters, the psychology of their behavior. John was so fascinated by this process that he stopped in this direction and skillfully used it in all his science fiction novels.
Main works
The favorite plot basis of the fiction novels of the famous writer, as already mentioned, is global catastrophe. And the author’s attention is focused exclusively on people trying to survive in difficult conditions. This is what became the literary "framework" for the works that John Wyndham created. The books Deviation from the Norm, Kraken Awakens, Dolls, Day of the Triffids, Cuckoo's Midwich are the most popular and are noted by the special attention of literary critics.
John Wyndham is called a true classic of world fiction. He never goes into the description of external details, in his books the emphasis falls on events that occur with people, their reaction and adaptation. For example, in “The Day of Triffids,” the author describes a situation where people on the planet have lost their eyesight and are trying to modernize modern society.
In "Cuckoos of Midwich," the heroes are subjected to an alien invasion, trying to survive. And in the book Kraken Awakens, the author describes a global flood in which people try to adapt to new conditions. The writer’s fantasy is particularly striking in the novel Deviation from the Norm. The plot of the novel begins with a description of the planet after a nuclear war. Devastation reigns around. A small colony of people, trying to survive, hides in the catacombs, collects the remnants of information about their ancestors. The war destroyed almost everything, and some people have undergone a mutation. To avoid deviations from the norm, mutants have to kill or expel from the colony. The main character is brought up in a family of religious fanatics. At night, he sees strange dreams about a beautiful city. He seems to be quite normal. But soon everything is changing.
Thus, for John Wyndham, each work is not just a fascinating text with an abundance of characters and events, but a whole laboratory. In it, like the genius of science fiction, he sets up experiments and watches the reaction of his experimental subjects, the heroes of the novel.
Reviews
Readers find the works of the famous author very light and exciting. The plots fascinate, make you worry about the main characters and think about the behavior of humanity as a whole. After all, not everyone is ready to preserve their human soul in times of cruelty. The style of the author is devoid of lyrical digressions. He writes sharply, logically and in fact.
In Wyndham’s books, it’s impossible to focus attention on details; he prefers to give out a big picture, voluminous and
holistic, raising the reader above the whole situation. Before our eyes unfolds a fantastic world of incredible adventures in which John Wyndham rules everything. Books, reviews on which you can only find positive ones, are still in the top of popularity. It seems that not only science fiction lovers like them, but even the most biased reader finds the writer's work interesting.