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Laddar... Consider Her Ways And Other Stories (urspr publ 1961; utgåvan 1965)av John Wyndham
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. I've read a number of Wyndham's novels and looked forward to trying his short stories. This collection was reissued in 2014 by Penguin and the stories date to the late 50's. A novella (the title story) and 5 other shorter stories of varying length. Some science fiction, some not, some more like fantasy. The first stories revolve around time travel via a transference of consciousness. For example, the second story "Odd" has a man in 1906 hit by a tram while crossing the street and his consciousness is temporarily sent forward in time to his older self in 1958 with interesting results. The opening novella has an excellent reputation but I thought it was overdone and would have been better at a shorter length, and it too used a similar time travel idea with a woman's consciousness being thrown more than a hundred years into a dystopian future after taking an experimental drug. It is something of a subtle horror story and a little heavy on the social satire within it. Having the first two stories play off of a similar device (time travel of the mind) was a little disappointing, but where the collection failed me was the third story, purely a satire about a would be movie starlet. After starting with a bit of promise I kept expecting the story to go somewhere and it took too much time and wandering to get to the punchline and was not at all worth the trip. A middle story, "A Stitch in Time" was I think the story I liked best here. It ponders other dimensions and time, and an experiment that occurs as an old woman reflects on her life and how decisions and events affect where your life may go. Overall I would say I was a little disappointed with the collection. I'll give it an OK rating. I bought another Penguin edition of stories at the same time as this and I look forward to reading it and another Wyndham I have handy. A collection of 6 novellas and short stories by the author of "Day of the Triffids". The title story is one of his most entertaining tales. Other stories include: "Odd", "Oh, Where, Now, is Peggy Macrafferty", "Stitch in Time", "Random Quest", and "A Long Spoon". Four of the stories concern time-travel or travel between parallel realities. The other two have a bit of O. Henry in them but are not science fiction. The title novella (copyrighted 1956) reminded me somewhat of the premise of Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale. Wyndham's rather less-horrifying take revolves around a society in which all men have died and female humans have become specialized (think of the Biblical quote, "Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways"). inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
The six stories in Consider Her Ways- And Others,the second collecton of John Wyndham's short tales, continue his exploration of the science fiction staple - what if? In the title story we are introduced to a world where all the men have been killed by a virus and women continue to survive in a strict caste system - bottom of the heap are the mothers. In others we meet the man who accidentally summons a devil and then has to find a way of getting rid of him without losing his immortal soul, as well as the woman who, thanks to an experiment in time, discovers why her lover abandoned her. 'Wyndham writes strongly and has a gift for bizarre plots' Guardian 'One of the few authors whose compulsive readability is a compliment to the intelligence' Spectator John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Benyon Harris was born in 1903, the son of a barrister. He tried a number of careers including farming, law, commercial art and advertising, and started writing short stories, intended for sale, in 1925. From 1930 to 1939 he wrote short stories of various kinds under different names, almost exclusively for American publications, while also writing detective novels. During the war he was in the Civil Service and then the Army. In 1946 he went back to writing stories for publication in the USA and decided to try a modified form of science fiction, a form he called 'logical fantasy'. As John Wyndham he wrote The Day of the Triffids, The Kraken Wakes, The Chrysalids, The Midwich Cuckoos(filmed as Village of the Damned), The Seeds of Time, Trouble with Lichen, The Outward Urge, Consider Her Ways and Others, Web and Chocky. John Wyndham died in March 1969. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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There is a very clear line from Consider Her Ways to The Handmaids Tale, a dystopia where women have very specific roles. It is through different reasoning but there is a lot in common too. Time travel, throwing of consciousness, and fate are recurring themes. ( )