After serving in the civil Service and the Army during the war, he went back to writing.

After trying a number of careers, including farming, law, commercial art and advertising, he started writing short stories in 1925. But the younger and more daring Diana sees an opportunity to overturn the male status quo and free women from the career-versus-children binary-in short, a chance to remake the world. John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was the son of a barrister. Francis, realizing the horrifying implications of an ever-youthful wealthy elite, decides to keep his findings a secret. What if humans discovered the secret to prolonged life?įrancis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two biochemists investigating a rare lichen, separately discover that it has a remarkable property: It slows the aging process almost to a halt.

John Wyndham (19031969) is considered a pioneer of science fiction and horror. Wyndham was uniquely gifted at skewering humankind’s foibles while maintaining a shred of hope that our better angels would prevail.”-Kate Folk, from the introduction 9780593450147 Our cheapest price for Trouble with Lichen is 12.75. “It was a genius move for John Wyndham to center an age-slowing narrative on women, who are still today pressured to remain youthful-looking forever, or succumb to social invisibility. A “sharp, amusing story” ( The Guardian) about the fountain of youth and its implications for women’s rights, by one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant-and neglected-science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called “the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.”

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