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  • Published: 22 September 2000
  • ISBN: 9780141181479
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $26.00

The Chrysalids




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: $26.00

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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