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Author:	John Wyndham
Title:	Web
Publisher:	Penguin Books
Country:	UK
Date:	May 1980
Format:	Paperback
Class Number:	428.62
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:	0140053387
First Published:	1979
Rating:	5.5 Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own
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'A' format 141pp First published in hardcover by Michael Joseph in 1979, ten years after Wyndham's death.

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ppint. 17th Nov 2020		Rated 4/10 #oldmod67 there's nothing wrong with the use of language, nor the style, and it's an adventure story in the cosy catastrophe genre; it reads smoothly; but it's unambitious, nothing is made of the innovation of the spiders beyond their immediate threat and people's fear of spiders, and the protagonists' characters aren't essentially changed by their experiences in escaping from the plague of spiders: - so it's essentially not sf, but an excessively ''englishly'' polite mild horror novel. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



OldMod67 17th Nov 2020		@ppint That's really interesting. I presumed it was just the lure of ££ that got it out, along with the tenth anniversary of Wyndham's passing. Brian Aldiss mentioned in a documentary some years back that Wyndham asked him to collaborate on a 'spider' novel, but declined. I assumed it was still to be polished until I read different a lot later on (amazing what you can find on this internet thingie) but apparently it was complete. I actually really enjoyed it and although very short I got sucked right into it. Not really a big fan of spiders, so that was on my mind....



ppint. 17th Nov 2020		i read the manuscript of this ''blind'' for the penguin group (of which michael joseph had become an imprint, when pearsons bought the tbl book group including sphere, etc.) under the proposed title, ''little sisters', and recommended against it, ''unless there was good and sufficient non-literary reason to buy it'', as it was a fairly weak story; it's only john wyndham's name on it, that made it saleable.



OldMod67 16th Nov 2020		Originally submitted for publication in 1965, but rejected.

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