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The disturbing post-apocalyptic masterpiece from the author of THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS.

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The disturbing post-apocalyptic masterpiece from the author of THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS.
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Autorenporträt
John Wyndham (1903-69) John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was the son of a barrister, who started writing short stories in 1925. 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, which he called 'logical fantasy'. As John Wyndham, he is best-known as the author of The Day of the Triffids, but he wrote many other successful novels including The Kraken Wakes, The Chrysalids and The Midwich Cuckoos (filmed as Village of the Damned).
Rezensionen
Perfect timing, astringent humour . . . One of the few authors whose compulsive readability is a compliment to the intelligence Spectator
John Wyndham s The Chrysalids anticipates and surpasses many of today s dystopian thrillers . . . The Chrysalids explores intolerance and bigotry with satisfying complexity as it races toward an ending that is truly unpredictable.
The Seattle Times

One of the most thoughtful post-apocalypse novels ever written. Wyndham was a true English visionary, a William Blake with a science doctorate.
David Mitchell

A remarkably tender story of a post-nuclear childhood . . . It has, of course, always seemed a classic to most of its three generations of readers . . . It has become part of a canon of good books.
The Guardian

It is quite simply a page-turner, maintaining suspense to the very end and vividly conjuring the circumstances of a crippled and menacing world, and of the fear and sense of betrayal that pervade it. The ending, a salvation of an extremely dubious sort, leaves the reader pondering how truly ephemeral our version of civilization is . . .
Boston Globe

[Wyndham] was responsible for a series of eerily terrifying tales of destroyed civilisations; created several of the twentieth century's most imaginative monsters; and wrote a handful of novels that are rightly regarded as modern classics.
The Observer (London)

Science fiction always tells you more about the present than the future. John Wyndham's classroom favourite might be set in some desolate landscape still to come, but it is rooted in the concerns of the mid-1950s. Published in 1955, it's a novel driven by the twin anxieties of the cold war and the atomic bomb . . . Fifty years on, when our enemy has changed and our fear of nuclear catastrophe has subsided, his analysis of our tribal instinct is as pertinent as ever.
The Guardian (London)

Sometimes you just need a bit of soft-core sci-fi, and Wyndham s 1950 s classic, newly back in print, fully delivers.
Thicket Magazine

[A]bsolutely and completely brilliant . . . The Chrysalids is a top-notch piece of sci-fi that should be enjoyed for generations yet to come.
The Ottawa Citizen

John Wyndham's novel . . . is a famous example of 1950s Cold War science fiction, but its portrait of a community driven to authoritarian madness by its overwhelming fear of difference in this case, of genetic mutations in the aftermath of nuclear war finds its echoes in every society.
The Scotsman

The Chrysalids comes heart-wrenchingly close to being John Wyndham's most powerful and profound work.
SFReview.net
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