The Secret People
$29.61
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2016
Summary
The first full-length novel from the classic science fiction author
While flying over Africa’s New Sea, a water project in the heart of the Sahara desert, Mark Sunnet’s rocket plane crashes and is sucked through a hole in the desert floor into a strange, cavernous new world.
There, he and his partner Margaret encounter the survivors of an ancient race of underground dwellers whose whole existence is now threatened. Captured and forced to live with other prisoners taken from th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241977019 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241977010 |
| Author: | John Wyndham |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2016 |
| Weight: | 151g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 14mm |
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About The Author
John Wyndham
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Benyon Harris was born in 1903. He tried a number of careers including farming, law, commercial art and advertising, and started writing short stories in 1925. 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.
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