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The Chrysalids: S.F. MASTERWORKS

Autor John Wyndham
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 iun 2016

David's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blasphemies against nature. And blasphemies, as everyone knows, should be burned: KEEP PURE THE STOCK OF THE LORD; WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT. Little does he realise that his own son - and his son's cousin Rosalind and their friends - have their own secret aberration which would label them as mutants.

And mutants, as everyone knows, should be burned. But as David and Rosalind grow older it becomes more difficult to conceal their differences from the village elders. Soon they face a choice: wait for eventual discovery - and death - or flee to the terrifying and mutable Badlands .

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781473212688
ISBN-10: 1473212685
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 130 x 204 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția Gollancz
Seria S.F. MASTERWORKS

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Benyon Harris was born in 1903, the son of a barrister. He tried a number of careers including farming, law, commercial art and advertising, and started writing short stories, intended for sale, in 1925. From 1930 to 1939 he wrote short stories of various kinds under different names, almost exclusively for American publications, while also writing detective novels. During the war he was in the Civil Service and then the Army. In 1946 he went back to writing stories for publication in the USA and decided to try a modified form of science fiction, a form he called 'logical fantasy'. As John Wyndham he wrote The Day of the Triffids, The Kraken Wakes, The Chrysalids, The Midwich Cuckoos (filmed as Village of the Damned), The Seeds of Time, Trouble with Lichen, The Outward Urge, Consider Her Ways and Others, Web and Chocky. John Wyndham died in March 1969.

Recenzii

Perfect timing, astringent humour . . . One of the few authors whose compulsive readability is a compliment to the intelligence
Remains fresh and disturbing in an entirely unexpected way