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The Chrysalids
  • Published: 22 September 2000
  • ISBN: 9780141181479
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $28.00
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The Chrysalids

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Paperback
18 June 2018
Paperback
18 Aug 2008
Paperback
22 Sept 2000
EBook
1 Apr 2010
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John Wyndham's classic science fiction novel, published as an Essential for the first time

\"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.
  • Published: 22 September 2000
  • ISBN: 9780141181479
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $28.00
Categories:

About the author

John Wyndham

John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Benyon Harris was born in 1903. He had a variety of careers before becoming an author, but decided to take up writing professionally in 1925. Under several pseudonyms, he wrote numerous short stories for American science fiction magazines. During World War II, he worked in the Ministry of Information before serving in the army, and took part in the Normandy landings. He returned to writing in 1946, using the pen name John Wyndham, and The Day of the Triffids was published in 1951. It was a huge success, and was followed by seven further novels. He died in 1969.
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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