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A review by octavia_cade
Technical Slip: Collected Stories by John Wyndham
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
John Wyndham is one of my very favourite science fiction authors, and I have several of his short story collections. I don't enjoy his short work as much as his novels, but he has a handful of really outstanding stories - only one of them, "The Wheel," is collected here. Even then, I think my liking for "The Wheel" is because it is a clear dry run for The Chrysalids, which is one of my top three sci-fi novels of all time.
Included in this collection is one story of his I hadn't read before: "The Curse of the Burdens," which is less a speculative short than a straight mystery novella, very much in the mould of Agatha Christie. It was alright, but why it was shoehorned in with the speculative stories here I cannot imagine.
Included in this collection is one story of his I hadn't read before: "The Curse of the Burdens," which is less a speculative short than a straight mystery novella, very much in the mould of Agatha Christie. It was alright, but why it was shoehorned in with the speculative stories here I cannot imagine.