Each of those adventure yarns throws you into the strangeness of the Big Event early on, and then keeps up an unrelenting pace of mounting crisis and urgency. It’s quite a surprise to come to Trouble With Lichen after Wyndham’s big four science fiction, apocalyptic, adventure novels – The Day of the Triffids (1951), The Kraken Wakes (1953), The Chrysalids (1955) and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957).
(Diana Brackley, Trouble With Lichen, page 123) Wyndham’s wish to write literature Time to become full men and women instead of overgrown children.’ Time to grow wise enough to build a new world. We can offer them life, with time to live it instead of a quick scrabble for existence, and finish. ‘All we want to do is to give people something.
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