Wanderers of Time

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To those who have enjoyed The Day of the Triffids, The Kraken Wakes and other John Wyndham novels, it may come as a surprise to know that he was writing imaginative fiction with conspicuous success forty years ago. His novels, The Secret People and Stowaway to Mars (both recently republished by Coronet Books), delighted tens of thousands of readers when they first appeared in the 1930s as serial stories in a popular weekly as well as in volume form. Most of his shorter stories, however, first appeared in a magazine specialising in 'science fiction' (a term he detested) which was published in the U.S.A., which offered the only receptive market for most of his work in this genre. Writing under his own name, John Beynon Harris became familiar to readers of Wonder Stories as a contributor of thoroughly convincing tales in which the motivating idea, however fantastic, was always subservient to the narrative and the characters as believable as the background, however exotic.

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