Retro Reading
While 'retro', 'vintage' and 'mid century' have been particularly fashionable and lucrative words to attach to clothing or home decor fashions in the last couple of years, sadly I have yet to see a revival in popularity of retro fiction.
Hit by a strange surge of nostalgia for my most loved books recently, I rediscovered John Wyndham's The Crysalids, published in 1955.
Don't let the cover fool you or put you off. John Wyndham's post-apocolyptic classic was so far ahead of its times, I cannot understand why savvy publishers haven't leapt to cash in on the huge success of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and the buzz surrounding its impending film adaptation, by re-releasing John Wyndham's most popular and brilliant classics.
I strongly recommend that you get your hands on Wyndham's work. He'll entertain you while really making you think. The highest praise I have read for Wyndham's work is, "He is one of the few authors whose compulsive readability is a compliment to the intelligence.'
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