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The Chrysalids
  • Published: 18 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141032979
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $37.00
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The Chrysalids

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18 June 2018
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22 Sept 2000
EBook
1 Apr 2010
Paperback
18 Aug 2008
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A chilling dystopian classic by one of the greatest science fiction writers of the twentieth century

David's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses. Any abnormality, in animal, plant or human, are blasphemies against nature; mutant. And mutants, as everyone knows, should be burned.

Little does he realise that his own son, and his son's cousin Rosalind and their friends, have their own secret aberration.

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, or flee to the terrifying and mutable Badlands. . .

The Chrysalids is a startling prescient story of a devastated world and explores how a community descends into authoritarian madness.
  • Published: 18 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141032979
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $37.00
Categories:

About the author

John Wyndham

John Wyndham was born in 1903 in the Midlands. After leaving school, he tried his hand at several careers, including farming, law and advertising, before starting to write stories in 1925. During the war he worked as a censor in the Ministry of Information and afterwards served in the Army. The Day of The Triffids was published in 1951, and was followed by many other famous works of science fiction, including The Kraken Wakes, The Chrysalids and The Midwich Cuckoos. Wyndham died in 1969.
JW

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The Kraken Wakes
The Chrysalids: Popular Penguins
The Day of the Triffids: Popular Penguins
John Wyndham: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
The Day Of The Triffids
Stowaway to Mars
The Secret People
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Praise for The Chrysalids

One of the most thoughtful post-apocalypse novels ever written

David Mitchell

The Chrysalids anticipates and surpasses many of today’s dystopian thrillers

The Seattle Times

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

Remains fresh and disturbing in an entirely unexpected way

Guardian

Remains fresh and disturbing in an entirely unexpected way

Guardian

Perfect timing, astringent humour . . . One of the few authors whose compulsive readability is a compliment to the intelligence

Spectator

Remains fresh and disturbing in an entirely unexpected way

Guardian