Chrysalids

John Wyndham, M. John Harrison

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Penguin
22 September 2000

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Science fiction; Classic science fiction; Future Society

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

""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.

By: John Wyndham
Introduction by: M. John Harrison
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 158g
ISBN: 9780141181479
ISBN 10: 0141181478
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 22 September 2000
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 .