
John Wyndham is known to the world of Science Fiction as the writer of the very best of that English Disaster school started by H. G. Wells. But before there were Triffids and Chrysalids and Chocky, there were a dozen great stories written for the American pulps. In those days, Wyndham went by the name John Beynon Harris or John B. Harris, later John Beynon or Wyndhame Parkes, all of which are derived from his real name, John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris.
The earliest stories of John Beynon Harris have a delightful energy and inventiveness to them. It is only the scope of his later John Wyndham novels that have obscure his first works. These stories are well worth the hunt in paperbacks, English hard covers or the pulps themselves. Collections of interest include: The Wanderers of Time (1973), The Sleepers of Mars (1973), The Man From Beyond and Other Stories (1975) and Exiles on Asperus (1979).
If you’d like to read the rest, please check out Monster 2: From the Pages of Dark Worlds Quarterly.