ABSTRACT
Years before the English Sunday supplements ever discovered the “Angry Young Man,” jazz, science fiction, and other “marginal” art forms began to gather adherents among those who formerly might have quickly passed by them. Postwar British culture had entered a self-conscious period of transition, and science fiction suddenly seemed much more important both to pundits such as Kingsley Amis and to readers in general, who made John Wyndham’s novels (beginning with The Day of the Triffids [1951]) surprising best sellers.
