The chrysalids
Genetic mutation has devastated the world and a bleak, primitive society has emerged from its ruins ; a society which punishes any deviation from rigid norms. Ten-year-old David is having strange dreams about a mysterious city. But in his ultra-religious village of Waknut, all abnormality is abhorre...
| Main Author: | Wyndham, John, 1903-1969. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
NY:
New York Review of Books,
2008.
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| Summary: |
Genetic mutation has devastated the world and a bleak, primitive society has emerged from its ruins ; a society which punishes any deviation from rigid norms. Ten-year-old David is having strange dreams about a mysterious city. But in his ultra-religious village of Waknut, all abnormality is abhorred, and he soon realizes that differences can be very dangerous indeed. |
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| Physical Description: |
199 p. |
| ISBN: |
9781590172926 1590172922 |
| Author Notes: |
John Wyndham is the pen name of John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (1903-1969), the son of an English barrister. The boy's parents separated when he was eight, and after attending various boarding schools, he lived off family money while trying his hand--unsuccessfully--at careers such as law, commercial illustration, and advertising. In 1924 he turned to writing, and within a number of years he was selling short stories, mostly science fiction, to pulp magazines in America, as John Beynon or John Beynon Harris. During World War II, he served behind the lines in the British army, and in 1951 he published The Day of the Triffids , his first novel as John Wyndham, and a tremendous success. John Wyndham's six other novels include The Kraken Wakes and The Midwich Cuckoos . |