A collection of short stories by John Wyndham.

This was a nice surprise sent to me by my father in law, and it was a great little read! The first in the collection, Consider her Ways was fascinating, a woman time travels into the future to discover that men have been wiped out by a mysterious virus and that women have proceeded to procreate independently and are now inhabiting the earth. The reasoning behind how and why it may have happened is just as bizarre, you would have thought it was written by a feminist, it speaks of how women have been controlled and oppressed by a society dominated by men.

Wyndham is obviously obsessed with time travel, as all but one of the stories is about it one way or another, mostly about people travelling forward into their own bodies, or into a parallel future – all quite cool to think about, there are so many different possibilities that are a result of everyday actions or decisions… anything is possible!

The text is available online here.

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