Consider Her Ways and Others

Consider Her Ways and Others is a collection of science-fiction three short stories and three novelettes/novellas by John Wyndham, published in 1961.

Contents

 * "Consider Her Ways" (1956), novella
 * "Odd"
 * "Oh, Where, Now, Is Peggy MacRafferty?", novelette
 * "A Stitch in Time", or "Stitch in Time"
 * "Random Quest", novelette
 * "A Long Spoon" (1960)

Summaries

 * "Consider Her Ways"
 * Jane, a woman from the present day, takes a drug thought to induce out-of-body experiences. She wakes up in a future there are no more men, in a bloated body unknown to her.


 * "Odd"
 * an ordinary man profits from an extraordinary time paradox when he stops to help a man seemingly lost and confused.


 * "Oh Where, Now, is Peggy MacRafferty?"
 * Peggy MacRafferty is a young Irish woman who appears on a quiz show and becomes a movie star, losing all that makes her special.


 * "A Stitch in Time"
 * an old woman discovers the reason why her lover abandoned her all those years ago thanks to her sons' experiments with time.


 * "Random Quest"
 * a physicist is temporarily taken to an alternate universe through a failed experiment, where he falls in love with a woman.


 * "A Long Spoon"
 * Stephen summons the demon Batruel by mistake and is unable to get rid of him.

Adaptations
Based on novella "Consider Her Ways":
 * "Consider Her Ways" (1964), episode of the series The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, directed by Robert Stevens

Based on novelette "Random Quest":
 * "Random Quest" (1969), episode of the series Out of the Unknown, directed by Christopher Barry
 * Quest for Love (1971), film directed by Ralph Thomas
 * Random Quest (1986), TV movie directed by Luke Watson

Based on short story "A Long Spoon":
 * "The Long Spoon" (1961), episode of the series Storyboard, directed by James MacTaggart
 * Ördögi szerencse (1978), TV movie directed by Vilmos Dobai