The Paranoid Fifties Author:John Wyndham, Richard Matheson, Philip K. Dick Three masterpieces from a period that nourished perhaps more widespread fears and apocalyptic fantasies -- from atomic warfare to Communist infiltration to UFOs -- than any other in this century. The three-novel volume features "The Day of the Triffids" by John Wyndham, first published in 1951; "I Am Legend" by Richard Matheson, first published ... more »in 1954; and "Time Out of Joint" by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1959.« less