This is a theme in several John Wyndham stories -- I’m thinking Day of the Triffids and especially The Kraken Wakes. He often seems to get looked down on today

This is a theme in several John Wyndham stories -- I’m thinking Day of the Triffids and especially The Kraken Wakes. He often seems to get looked down on today for writing “cosy catastrophes” about plucky English survivors, but his books have a lot more going on than that.