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Consider Her Ways and Others | 
 enlarge | Author: John Wyndham
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 90593
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Impression
Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 4.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0140022317
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780140022315
ASIN: 0140022317
Publication Date: February 26, 1970
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 Classic sci-fi short stories. July 25, 2006
dragondrums (Ingleby Barwick, United Kingdom)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book features, for the main part, stories that deal in time travel and distortions in time and place. There are some real gems here, not least the title story `Consider her Ways'. In this tale, a young woman wakes to find herself in a futuristic nightmare in which men have become obsolete and women are divided into groups such as workers, servants, breeders and so on. From being an educated, articulate doctor in her own time, she has awoken in the body of a breeder, a gargantuan woman who is supposed to have no intelligence at all and no thoughts beyond eating and producing babies. Her nightmare is in trying to convince those around her that she is not insane and that she is not who they suppose her to be.
Each story is written in a gentle and thoughtful manner, very different from Wyndham's better-known tales such as Day of the Triffids or the Chrysalids. At a mere 192 pages, this is not a book that will keep you going for weeks and it isn't the greatest work ever produced, but it is entertaining nonetheless and certainly worth buying, particularly if you are a fan of classic science fiction.
Characters to care about July 5, 2004
I Dean (Ayrshire United Kingdom)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
The first short story: Consider Her Ways; half the book, didn't interest me as the tale about a future female only society. I found the second half more interesting with short stories of people swapping places in time: Odd, Stitch in Time; and surprisingly a story about travelling to an alternate Earth (written well before Sliders): Random Quest. The book finishes with its best short story: A Long Spoon; where hi-tech man is able to out do the quill and parchment devil. The latter stories concentrate on the effects on the individuals involved focusing on their predicament thereby adding to the drama. As a reader you worry about them. John Wyndham is to be congratulated for exhibiting this skill in his short stories.
 unusual slants on time travel. February 7, 2004
S. Hapgood
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The theme to most of the stories is distortions in time, and he has some intriguing and thought-provoking slants on this. The novella of the title, "Consider Her Ways", is about a woman who wakes up several years in the future to find herself as an obese brood-mare in a female-only world. This is genuinely disturbing in parts, but is let down by a bizarre sort of anti-feminist rant in the middle section of the story. Wyndham seemed to be concerned that if taken too far Women's Lib (as it would have been known in his time) would lead to such a state of affairs. It's an interesting idea as to what a men-less world would be like, but he needn't have worried, as the whole thought is too preposterous to most women to be taken seriously, even as a bit of science fiction! The story also loses a lot of oomph when the central character gets back to her own time, and decides to take it into her hands to stop the onward progression of history. But, having said all that, the story does work on the disturbing level of what it would be like to suddenly wake up in a different body and in a different time. I quite felt for "Mother Orchis" being told that from now on she had to spend her life as a blob wrapped in pink satin, unable to think, move freely or read, and there solely to produce litters of daughters. I personally found that the rest of the stories in this volume didn't quite pack the same emotional punch, although "Stitch In Time" about an old lady who, through some strange experiment in physics, meets her long-lost love from 50 years before, is certainly thought-provoking to say the least, tho' I felt more could have been done with it. The story about Peggy MacRafferty, a pretty Irish girl transformed into a screen starlet and losing all her individuality in the process, becoming yet another plastic babe, loses vitality because we've seen this scenario done so many times since, and to be honest, done better. This volume is an interesting read for John Wyndham fans, but I wouldn't say it was vintage science fiction.
Great as you'd expect! July 17, 2001
Mr. S. J. Godrich
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Yes, John Wyndham has another book of short stories out. He died over 30 years ago yet the stories don't date in the conventional sense. The writer could easily be writing about the past since the ideas as just as fresh as ever! It's not as good as "Seeds of time" but it's definitely one to add to your bookshelves. John Wyndham had one of the best writing minds of the 20th Century. It'd be a crime not to read any of his work!!!!
a fantastic book of short stories, way ahead of his time. October 16, 2000
shaune@sonhill.demon.co.uk (London, England)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I had never heard of this book until about 6 months ago, I came across by chance. I am so happy I bought it. ODD is one of the most orginal time travel stories I have read. If you are into John Wyndham stories, buy it!
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