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The secret people 1935 is a science fiction novel by english writer john wyndham. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. Perhaps the best writer of science fiction england has. No place like earth is on bbc radio 4, on tuesday 21 december 2010, and 11. A powerful postapocalyptic allegory of persecution and intolerance, the penguin modern classics edition of john wyndhams science fiction masterpiece the day of the triffids contains an introduction by m. This was the first novel by the author who later wrote day of the triffids. Its author, john wyndham, had written some wonderful pieces some twenty years later. Captured and forced to live with other prisoners taken from the surface, the pair know that they must escape before the waters above drown them all.
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