Consider Her Ways and Others
{{Short description|Science fiction short story collection}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
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{{Infobox book |
| name = Consider Her Ways and Others
| image = ConsiderHerWays.jpg
| caption = Cover of the first edition
| author = John Wyndham
| illustrator = None
| cover_artist = Rupert Smith
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| genre = Science fiction
| publisher = Michael Joseph
| pub_date = 1961
| media_type = Print (hardcover)
| pages = 223
| isbn = 978-0-7181-0066-7
}}
Consider Her Ways and Others is a collection of science-fiction three short stories and three novelettes/novellas by John Wyndham, published in 1961.{{cite book |last=Wyndham |first=John |author-link=John Wyndham |date=1961 |title=Consider Her Ways & Others |url={{Google books |lUtCwAEACAAJ |plainurl=yes }} |publisher=Michael Joseph |isbn=978-0-7181-0066-7 }}{{Cite web |title=Consider Her Ways by John Wyndham - 1961 |url=https://biblio.ie/book/consider-her-ways-john-wyndham/d/1363075350 |access-date=2024-01-31 |website=Biblio}}{{ISFDB contents|7928|title=Consider Her Ways and Others|issue=1961}}{{WorldCat|oclc=1405843}}
Contents
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- "Consider Her Ways" (1956), novella
- "Odd"
- "Oh, Where, Now, Is Peggy MacRafferty?", novelette
- "A Stitch in Time", or "Stitch in Time"
- "Random Quest", novelette
- "A Long Spoon" (1960)
Summaries
;"Consider Her Ways"
:Jane, a woman from the present day, takes a drug thought to induce out-of-body experiences. She wakes up in a future there are no more men, in a bloated body unknown to her.{{cite book |editor1-last=Garnett |editor1-first=Rhys |editor2=R. J. Ellis |date=1990 |title=Science Fiction Roots And Branches: Contemporary Critical Approaches |url={{Google books |l9mvCwAAQBAJ |page=90 |plainurl=yes }} |publisher=Springer |page=90 |isbn=9781349208159 }}
;"Odd"
:an ordinary man profits from an extraordinary time paradox when he stops to help a man seemingly lost and confused.
;"Oh Where, Now, is Peggy MacRafferty?"
:Peggy MacRafferty is a young Irish woman who appears on a quiz show and becomes a movie star, losing all that makes her special.{{cite book |editor1-last=Nette |editor1-first=Andrew |editor2-last=McIntyre |editor2-first=Iain |editor2-link=Iain McIntyre |date=2021 |title=Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950–1985 |url={{Google books |n7RHEAAAQBAJ |page=128 |plainurl=yes }} |publisher=PM Press |page=128 |isbn=9781629639024 }}
;"A Stitch in Time"
:an old woman discovers the reason why her lover abandoned her all those years ago thanks to her sons' experiments with time.{{cite book |last1=Morgan |first1=Glyn |last2=Palmer-Patel |first2=Charul |date=2019 |title=Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction |url={{Google books |jGOtDwAAQBAJ |page=162 |plainurl=yes }} |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=162 |isbn=9781789620139 }}
;"Random Quest"
:a physicist is temporarily taken to an alternate universe through a failed experiment, where he falls in love with a woman.
;"A Long Spoon"
:Stephen summons the demon Batruel by mistake and is unable to get rid of him.{{cite book |last=Duff |first=Graham |author-link=Graham Duff |date=2019 |title=Foreground Music: A Life in Fifteen Gigs |url={{Google books |yFTDDwAAQBAJ |page=256 |plainurl=yes }} |publisher=MIT Press |page=256 |isbn=9781907222993 }}
Adaptations
Based on novella "Consider Her Ways":
- "Consider Her Ways" (1964), episode of the series The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, directed by Robert Stevens
Based on novelette "Random Quest":
- "Random Quest" (1969), episode of the series Out of the Unknown, directed by Christopher Barry
- Quest for Love (1971), film directed by Ralph Thomas
- Random Quest (1986), TV movie directed by Luke Watson
Based on short story "A Long Spoon":
- "The Long Spoon" (1961), episode of the series Storyboard, directed by James MacTaggart
- Ördögi szerencse (1978), TV movie directed by Vilmos Dobai
References
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External links
- [https://onlinereadfreenovel.com/john-wyndham/40618-consider_her_ways_and_others_read.html Full text of Consider Her Ways and Others by John Wyndham] at [https://onlinereadfreenovel.com Online Read Free Novel]
- {{IMDb name |0943909 |John Wyndham}}
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