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[[File:John B Harris WS 3105.jpg|thumb|350px|John Wyndham, using his birth name John Harris, in 1931]]
'''John Wyndham Harris''' (1903 – 1969) was an English science fiction writer known for writing ''[[The Day of the Triffids]]'', the novel for which Brian Aldiss (perhaps unfairly) coined the term "[[
His other novels include ''The Kraken Wakes'', ''[[The Chrysalids]]'', ''[[
He also wrote several collections of short stories.
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* ''[[The Day of the Triffids]]''
* ''[[The Chrysalids]]''
* ''[[
* ''The Kraken Wakes''
* ''Trouble With Lichen''
* ''Chocky''
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* [[Action Survivor]]: ''The Kraken Wakes''
* [[Attack of the Killer Whatever]]: Spiders, in the posthumously-published ''Web''.
* [[Brand X]]: In ''The Kraken Wakes'', the main character works for the EBC (English Broadcasting Company). It gets extensively [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] -- a [[Running Gag]] is that every character is introduced saying "don't you mean ''B''BC?", and later gets subverted, when the government takes over the media and the narrator explicitly mentions that the EBC and BBC are now one and the same.
* [[Everything's Squishier
* [[Gendercide]]: The novella "Consider Her Ways" features a world in which men have been killed off by a virus, etc, etc.
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: The short story "Compassion Circuit" concerns a robot nurse designed to always act for the benefit of its patient. {{spoiler|The robots concludes that it would be a great benefit for as much as possible of the patient's body to be amputated and replaced with hard-wearing prosthetics, thus preventing further injuries -- and when the patient disagrees, it takes matters into its own manipulatory appendages.}}
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