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The Infinite Moment is a collection of science fiction three short stories and three novellas/novelettes by British writer John Wyndham, published in Ballantine Books in 1961.

It is the United States edition of Consider Her Ways and Others, with two stories dropped and two others added.

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 the future, not as herself, but 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, and then learns the reasons why.
"Stitch in Time": an elderly lady reflecting on a lost love and, thanks to her sons' experiments with time, finally discovers the reason why her lover abandoned her so many years ago.
"Random Quest": combines romance and parallel universes.

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

Best Sellers: The Semi Monthly Book Review. University of Scranton. 1 April 1961. pp. 408, 440.
Reginald, Robert (1 January 2009). Contemporary Science Fiction Authors. Wildside Press LLC. p. 124. ISBN 978-1-4344-7857-3.

v t e Works by John Wyndham
Novels	The Secret People Foul Play Suspected Stowaway to Mars The Day of the Triffids The Kraken Wakes The Chrysalids The Midwich Cuckoos The Outward Urge Trouble with Lichen Chocky Web Plan for Chaos
Short stories	"Consider Her Ways" "Random Quest"
Short story collections	Jizzle The Seeds of Time Tales of Gooseflesh and Laughter Consider Her Ways and Others The Infinite Moment Sleepers of Mars The Best of John Wyndham Wanderers of Time Exiles on Asperus No Place Like Earth
Film adaptations	The Day of the Triffids Village of the Damned (1960) Quest for Love Village of the Damned (1995)
TV adaptations	The Day of the Triffids (1981) Chocky The Day of the Triffids (2009) The Midwich Cuckoos (2022)
Other	Triffid The Chrysalids (radio drama) Children of the Damned Blackbirds at Bangpleng The Night of the Triffids

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