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John Wyndham was an English science-fiction writer. Use this tag for questions about the author and his motivations, not for all questions about his works.

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In Wyndham's "Confidence Trick", a sign at an Underground station in Hell is misread as "Som...

One assumes that it said Avernus, which is Latin for "Hell"
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How far down the east coast did they get in John Wyndham's The Chrysalids?

They seems to be regular travel about as far south as Nova Scotia. Some explorers have traveled farther south (to the US West Coast and even to South America. possibly) where they've witnessed glowing …
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Why was the book ‘Web’, by John Wyndham, published ten years after his death?

Following Wyndham's death in 1969, his estate was split into two sections, one concerned with his physical assets and one concerned with his "literary estate". The latter passed into the control of Jo …
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