The Seeds of Time

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  First published by Michael Joseph 1956

  Published in Penguin Books 1959

  This edition published 2014

  Copyright © the Estate of John Wyndham, 1956

  Cover illustration – Brian Cronin

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  ISBN: 978-0-241-97107-9

  * Onns gives no clues to Forta’s position, nor as to whether it is a planet, a moon, or an asteroid.

  † The terms ‘men’ and ‘women’ are not used biologically, but in the sense of the dominant species referring to its own members.