The Chrysalids

John Wyndham

ISBN: 9780141181479
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: New edition
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Genetic mutation has devastated the world. In the bleak, primitive society that has emerged from its ruins, any sign of deviation is ruthlessly hunted out and destroyed. David lives in fear of discovery, for he is part of a secret group of children who are able to communicate with each other by transferring thought-shapes into each others minds. As they grow older they feel increasingly isolated. Then one of them marries a 'norm' with terrifying consequences.

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'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.