Nuclear war has devastated the world, bringing with it a host of genetic mutations. In the bleak, primitive society that has emerged from its ruins, any sign of deviation, no matter how small, is ruthlessly rooted out and destroyed.

\"In a decade marked, much like our own, by simple fears, John Wyndham refused to make simple metaphors\". -M John Harrison. A world paralyzed by genetic mutation- Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of a community where the chances of breeding true are less than fifty percent and where deviations are rooted out and destroyed as abominations.

Details

ISBN13: 9780141181479
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 208
Edition:
Publication Date: 22 Sep 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x12.9(L)x1.3(W)162
Weight (gm): 162

Author Biography

John Wyndham was born in 1903. After a wide experience of the English preparatory school he was at Bedales from 1918 to 1921. Careers which he tried included farming, law, commercial art, and advertising, and he first started writing short stories, intended for sale, in 1925. During the war he was in the Civil Service and afterwards in the Army. In 1946 he began writing his major science fiction novels including \"The Kraken Wakes\", \"The Chrysalids\" and \"The Midwich Cuckoos\".

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