‘JOHN WYNDHAM probably ranks with Ray Bradbury as one of the best, and certainly one of the best-known, post-war science fiction writers. Like Bradbury, Mr Wyndham cares nothing for details of technology. His stories are exercises in wonder; they twist old formulae (love, humour, adventure, grand guignol, evocation of mood) into new and wholly unexpected shapes. The machinery of the plot may have to do with space travel or time travel robots or the logic of chance, but the stories themselves are real stories, stories with a point to them …’