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For Penguin to publish a set of ten titles by an author was an event of some significance that marked their entry into the pantheon of Penguin's most popular
writers. The honour was bestowed on a number of authors over the years and the list of those elected to this elite group includes Bernard Shaw, H G Wells, Aldous Huxley
and Agatha Christie.
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The Day of the Triffids (993) by John Wyndham 1979 reprint with cover art by Peter Lord. |
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Penguin had been publishing Wyndham since 1954 but the introduction of pictorial covers in the 1960s had not done his books any favours, so Lord's treatment of
The Triffids – a peaceful, almost pastoral scene, bathed in the colours of a warm spring day – came as a breath of fresh air. The cover shows a house
from the viewpoint of a passer-by looking up through a loose line of leafy plants with drooping heads and flowers like giant buttercups. But a closer look reveals a false
idyll, shattered some time in the past like the glass in the upstairs window, beyond which a room lies dark and empty. |
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The Kraken Wakes (1075) by John Wyndham 1979 reprint with cover art by Peter Lord. |
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The Chrysalids (1308) by John Wyndham 1979 reprint with cover art by Peter Lord. |
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The Midwich Cuckoos (1440) by John Wyndham 1979 reprint with cover art by Peter Lord. |
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Trouble With Lichen (1986) by John Wyndham 1979 reprint with cover art by Peter Lord. |
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The Best of John Wyndham Slip-case by Peter Lord for a boxed set of the five Wyndham titles shown above. |
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The Seeds of Time (1385) by John Wyndham 1979 reprint with cover art by Peter Lord. |
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Consider Her Ways and Others (2231) by John Wyndham 1979 reprint with cover art by Peter Lord. |
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Chocky (3121) by John Wyndham 1979 reprint with cover art by Peter Lord. |
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The Outward Urge (1544) by John Wyndham and Lucas Parkes 1980 reprint with cover art by Peter Lord. |
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Web (5338) by John Wyndham First published 1979. Published by Penguin Books January 1980 with cover art by Peter Lord. |
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By the time all ten titles had appeared Peter Mayer was Penguin's managing director and David Pelham had resigned as art director, explaining later that when 'I overheard people in the marketing department referring to books as "the product" I knew that it was time to jump'. Meanwhile Peter Lord went on to produce a couple of sf covers for Pan and Sphere before moving into bookselling, where he works today. |
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