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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":

Based on novelette "Random Quest":

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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Category:1961 short story collections

Category:Short story collections by John Wyndham