Bibliography:

• The Winter Swan (1949)
• The Twenty-Second Century (1954)
• The Year Of The Comet (1955) (US: Planet In Peril, 1959)
• The Death Of Grass (1956) (US: No Blade Of Grass, 1957)
  (filmed as No Blade of Grass, 1970)
• The Caves Of Night (US: 1958)
• The Long Voyage (1960) (US: The White Voyage, 1961)
• The World In Winter (1962) (US: The Long Winter, 1962)
• Cloud On Silver (1964) (US: Sweeney's Island, 1964)
• The Possessors (US: 1964)
• A Wrinkle In The Skin (1965) (US: The Ragged Edge, 1966)
• The Little People (US: 1966)
• The White Mountains (1967) - Fiction For Younger Readers
• The City Of Gold And Lead (1967) - Fiction For Younger Readers
• Pendulum (1968)
• The Pool Of Fire (1968) - Fiction For Younger Readers
• The Lotus Caves (1969) - Fiction For Younger Readers
• The Guardians (1970) - Fiction For Younger Readers
• The Prince In Waiting (1970) - Fiction For Younger Readers
• Beyond The Burning Lands (1971) - Fiction For Younger Readers
• The Sword Of The Spirits (1972) - Fiction For Younger Readers
• Dom And Va (1973) - Fiction For Younger Readers
• Wild Jack (US: 1974) - Fiction For Younger Readers
• Empty World (1977) - Fiction For Younger Readers
• The Prince In Waiting Trilogy (US: omnibus,1980) (UK: 1983)
• The Tripods Trilogy (US: omnibus, 1980)
• Fireball (1981) - Fiction For Younger Readers
• New Found Land (1983) - Fiction For Younger Readers
• Dragon Dance (1986) - Fiction For Younger Readers
• When The Tripods Came (US: 1988) - Fiction For Younger Readers

The Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction:

"....after the success of his first sf novel, The Year Of The Comet, and the even grater impact of his second, The Death Of Grass, he concentrated for some years on adult novels, soon becoming perceived as John Wyndham's rival and successor as the premier writer of the post-WWII UK disaster novel in the decade 1955-1965.

The disaster which changes the face of England (and of the world) in The Death Of Grass (filmed in 1970 as No Blade Of Grass) is, as the title makes clear, an upset in the balance of nature which causes the extinction of all grass and related food plants, with catastrophic effects.

The World In Winter, A Wrinkle In The Skin and Pendulum all deal decks similarly stacked against political or environmental complacency, and the protagonists concentrate on the grim business of staying alive and making a life fit to live in a post-holocaust world stripped of culture and security."

20th Century Science Fiction Writers:

"....it is to scenarios of planet-wide cataclysm and survival in a world that will never be the same again that the most famous stories direct us. The Death Of Grass, reminding us that corn, wheat, and rice are grass, has a blight on all the species of grass cause a world famine. The World In Winter shows European civilization destroyed by a new ice age. A Wrinkle In The Skin presents earth devastated by the effects of continent-heaving earthquakes. Pendulum varies the cause of disaster from that of nature run amok to human society run amok - an obvious fictional response to the social transformations taking place in western civilisation during the late 1960's. But with few alterations the effect is the same. More people survive. Yet once more society is reduced to savagery, to endure again the insanity and agony of social evolution that in past history did not teach their lessons well enough.

These pieces are variations upon several principal themes. Human civilization is fragile and vulnerable. It cannot survive catastrophe either from natural causes or incompetent government. In the event of catastrophe the few who survive will be winnowed again by good health, knowledge of basic tools and nature, and the ability to kill other human beings, however reluctantly, out of necessity. Simultaneously, they must have the ability to love and form, once again, wholesome social contracts. Billions die in these stories, but hope and human potential have the final determination in each of them. Somehow, mankind will recover and rebuild, though Pendulum, the latest of the novels, insists that it will not be swift."