John Wyndham: THE MAN FROM BEYOND

Publishers
UK and Commonwealth	c/o David Higham Associates
USA and rest of the world	c/o Paper Lion Ltd
Rights
Film, TV, audio, digital	c/o Paper Lion Ltd
Translation rights	c/o David Higham Associates
Book details
First published	1973 by Coronet

THE MAN FROM BEYOND was the Michael Joseph edition of THE BEST OF JOHN WYNDHAM, which was later published as two volumes:

THE BEST OF JOHN WYNDHAM 1932-1949

• The Lost Machine (1932)
  an artificial intelligence’s experiences on the barbaric planet Earth in the primitive times of the early 20th Century
• The Man from Beyond (1934)
  a human desperately attempts to convince the people of Venus to have nothing to do with their neighbours in space as they are without hope of redemption.
• The Perfect Creature (1937)
  a scientist’s attempts to create the ‘perfect’ creature, and what happens when he gets the hormone balance wrong. (Later published in JIZZLE as Una)
• The Trojan Beam (1939)
  a British secret agent is used as a go-between with the warring states of China and Japan while the Trojan Beam is used to alter the balance of power.
• Vengeance by Proxy (1940)
  a horror story updating the vampire myth to modern Eastern Europe, told in the style of Bram Stoker’s DRACULA.
• Adaption (1949)
  dramatises the need for life to be adapted to the world in which it grows, as a father searches desperately for his long lost daughter.

THE BEST OF JOHN WYNDHAM 1951-1960

• Pawley’s Peepholes (1951)
  time travelers from the future disrupt small town life by treating it as a quaint place to sight see.
• The Red Stuff (1951)
  is a mysterious, fast growing entity first consumes a meteorite, then an entire space ship and ends up on a moon base.
• And the Walls Came Tumbling Down (1951)
  is the report of a silicone based life form experiencing hostility on Earth.
• Dumb Martian (1952)
  tells of a Human and his Martian ‘wife’ out deep in space, far away from civilisation and the man’s slow descent into brutality and madness.
• Close Behind Him (1952)
  a horror story about a burglar who becomes convinced that the spirit of a man killed during a break in is coming ever closer behind him.
• The Emptiness of Space (1960)
  In New Caledonia, 2194, an astronaut suffers the after effects of the urge to travel in space and fears he has lost his soul. This is a story of the Troon family as seen in The Outward Urge.