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“Even though Wyndham wrote several novels which were very successful, he carried on enjoying writing short stories. He wrote them to entertain himself, and lots of them could be entire novels. Some of them are funny; some of them are horrifying; some of them explore ideas that are really very complicated or unusual. Consider Her Ways is one of the most interesting of his short story collections because of that story at the start of it…The name, ‘consider her ways’, comes from the Bible: ‘go to the ant thou sluggard, and consider her ways’. The idea is that women set up a world that’s modelled on an ant’s nest: there are people who are mothers, and that is their only function; there are people who are workers; there are the intelligentsia, the doctors; and there are the people who care for the mothers, the carers. Everybody knows their place. Everybody has a function. It’s very conflicted, as a story; he’s not sure if this is a good world or not.” Read more...
Amy Binns, Biographer
