Sci-fipioneers
This new set of stamps is issued in the year that marks the 75th anniversary of the death of HG Wells and the seventieth anniversary of the publication of John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids.
The classic novels featured in the set go back as far as Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, published in 1818, and guide us through some British favourites ending with Doris Lessing’s Shikasta, which was first read by science fiction fans in 1979.
The daughter of radicals, Mary Shelley wrote her most famous book when she was just nineteen, in
