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''The Seeds of Time'' is a collection of science fiction short stories by John Wyndham, published in 1956 by Michael Joseph. The title is presumably from ''Macbeth'', Act I Scene III. The collection contains: * a foreword by John Wyndham * "Chronoclasm", a time-travelling romantic comedy. * "Time To Rest", depicting the life on Mars of a human survivor of the destruction of Earth. * "Meteor", in which alien visitors to Earth find themselves on a very different scale to humans. * "Survival", set on a spacecraft marooned in orbit around Mars. A BBC Radio 4 adaption was broadcast in 1989 with Nicholas Courtney. It was released as an Audiobook in 2007 with the 1981 version of ''The Chrysalids''. * "Pawley's Peepholes", another time travel story, this time playing it as comedy. * "Opposite Number", which plays with the concept of parallel universes. * "Pillar To Post" The central character is a paraplegic who was badly injured in a road accident. Frequently taking drugs to cope with the pain, he finds himself in a healthy body very far in the future. A complex plot of body-swapping and time travel ensues. It is considered by some people to be the best story in the collection. * "(Dumb Martian )", a satire on racism, featuring an Earthman who buys a Martian wife. * "Compassion Circuit", a horror story on the subject of robotics. * "Wild Flower", which explores the tension between nature and technology. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Seeds of Time」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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