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John Wyndham John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was born in 1903 and lived in Brimigham, England. Wyndham tried many occupations before professional writing. John tried to have a career in law, farming, commercial art and advertisement. All of these failed. John began writing short stories in 1925. He sold to the American market in the 1930’s. During the Second World War John was part of the English Civil service and later the British Army. After the …

…down was a writer of comedies or satirical stories this is argued to be a beginning of science fiction. Other people argue that the first science fiction story was not written until 1818. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote “Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus” regarded by many as the first work of science fiction writing. Science fiction was first written in America in 1835 by Edger Allen Poe who wrote the story “The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal”.