Plan for Chaos

John Wyndham was the best known pen name of the British science fiction writer John (Wyndham Parkes Lucas) Beynon Harris. His novels include The Day of the Triffids (to appear as a new BBC television adaptation in 2009), The Kraken. Wakes, The Chrysalids, The Midwich Cuckoos and Chocky, all of which have been adapted for film and television. David Ketterer is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Concordia University, author of numerous books, including New Worlds for Old; The Apocalyptic Imagination, Science Fiction, and American Literature (1974), The Rationale of Deception in Poe (1979), Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (1992), and Imprisoned in a Tesseract: The Life and Work of James Blish (1987). His authorised biography of Wyndham is due to be published in 2009. Andy Sawyer is Special Collections Librarian for Science Fiction at the University of Liverpool and co-editor of Speaking Science Fiction: Dialogues and Interpretations (Liverpool University Press, 2000).

Introduction: A Ground-Breaking Cloned Nazis Thriller
Note on the Text
Chapter Epigraphs
Plan for Chaos
Part one
1 Picture
2 Where I Love
3 More Like
4 Pestilent Vapours
5 Confusion
6 Disguise
7 I Fly
8 Hard Rock
9 Constant Image
Part Two
10 Faded Pageant
11 Not Nature
12 Hideous Dream
13 I Go About
14 Expectation
15 Treachery
16 Grief
17 Not to Die
18 Mischiefs
19 Away
20 Finality?