John Wyndham: Difference between revisions

* [[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.

* [[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.}}

* [[Mental Time Travel]]: In the novella "Consider Her Ways", the protagonist travels to the future while experimenting with out-of-body experiences.

* [[No Party Like a Donner Party]]: In the short story "Survival", a group of people are marooned for a year on a space station. As their desperation increases, they resort first to drawing lots, then to cannibalizing the losers' frozen bodies. When rescuers finally arrive, the one demented survivor sees them only as food.

* [[Red Scare]]: Mocked in ''The Kraken Wakes'' with the minor character of Tuny; she continues to insist the Russians are behind the book's ever-escalating attacks on humanity from the depths of the sea, when it's soon made clear they couldn't possibly be doing it.

 

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