Conference noted::sf

    The book is actually called "The Chrysalids" and it is by the British
    writer John Wyndham, who also wrote "The Day of the Triffids", "The
    Kraken Wakes" and "The Midwich Cuckoos".  All, like "The Chrysalids"
    are smooth, easy-reading SF which had enormous appeal outside the
    SF field back in the 1950's.  Wyndham was a very English writer in
    that most of his books are what has been dubbed "the cosy catastrophe"
    Well worth reading nonetheless.
    

      Thanks for the info. I am going to have to see if Wyndham has
    any others book that may influence my long term memory (maybe a bit
    better with the names). 
    
    
    s davies

    I changed the title of the base note.
    
    --- jerry

    Hi
    another good John Whyndam book is The Seeds of Time. This is a 
    nice selection of short stories. There is another short story
    collection by him,but I can't remember the title at the moment.
    Anybody else remember?.
    
    Cheers Simon...

    There are a few:
    
    TALES OF GOOSEFLESH AND LAUGHTER
    THE INFINITE MOMENT
    CONSIDER HER WAYS
    JIZZLE
    WANDERERS OF TIME
    THE BEST OF JOHN WYNDHAM
    
    --- jerry

The first SF book I ever read was John Wyndham's "Day of the Triffids"
- this was more years ago than I care to remember!!!  After that I
also read most of his other works, such as "The Midwich Cuckoos",
"The Kraken Wakes", etc.  Because of this, I've always admired his
work, even though it now seems a bit dated and "Stiff-Upper Lip"
British!!  (Hey, don't get me wrong - I'm a Brit too!!).  In reply
to other replies in this note, I have read other collections of his
short stories - I'm not sure if they're still in print or not.  As far
as I can remember the titles were:

	The Trouble With Lichen, and
	The Outward Urge (co-authored with Larry Parkes??).

If anybody is still interested, perhaps I can find more info.

	Peter Bray
	(Toronto, Canada; previously from Leicester, England and, before
	 that, Melbourne, Australia - get around a bit, don't I - must
	 be the "Outward Urge"!!!)

    From the department of useless SF information:
    
    The "Co-Author" of "The Outward Urge" was "Lucas Parkes" (Wasn't
    Larry the bloke who played Jolson?) who was in fact Wyndham himself.
    Wyndham's real name was John Wyndham Lucas Parkes Beynon Harris
    (though not necessarily in that order, as I don't have a reference
    to hand) and he used extracts from this as pseudonyms.  He crops
    up under a couple of these guises in Arthur C Clarke's "Tales from
    the White Hart."
    
    Further on the trivia trail, there is I think a collection of three
    long short stories/novellas consisting of: a story by Wyndham, one
    by Mervyn Peake and "The Brass Butterfly" by William Golding.  Can
    anyone confirm its existance and what is its title?
    

    re:.7
    
    Actually, the height of chutzpah came when a book titled POLICE
    YOUR PLANET by Erik Van Lihn (a pseudonym for Lester del Rey)
    was once reviewed by Philip St. John (another pseudonym for
    Lester del Rey) in a magazine edited by Lester del Rey. The
    book was reprinted years later as by "Lester del Rey and Eric
    Van Lihn".
    
    This has happened at other times as well, the most recent that
    comes to mind is CAT MAGIC by Whitley Strieber and Jeff Barry (a
    pseudonym of Strieber's).
    
    As for that triplet by Wyndham, Peake, and Golding, yes it does
    exist, and it's title is something deceptively simple, like
    WYNDHAM, PEAKE, AND GOLDING. I think it was anonymously edited
    by Michael Moorcock. I'd have to check to be sure.
    
    --- jerry

    re:.8
    
    I blew it big on that one. The triplet is SOMETIME, NEVER. I'm
    still pretty sure that I've seen it attributed to Moorcock, but
    I can't find the reference, so I'm reluctant to say it's so.
    
    --- jerry

    re: .8,.9         
    
    You'd need a reference because the book itself (at least the P-back
    ed. if there was one in hardcover) does not name an editor other
    than "Ballantine Books".
    
    							Don

    Wyndham also wrote some juvenilia under the pseudonym of "John Beynon".
    I read at least 3 of them but the titles don't spring to mind.
    
    Dave Early 8*)