![]() ![]() His best known works include The Day of the Triffids (1951) and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957). John Wyndham (1903-1969) is considered a pioneer of science fiction and horror, though he preferred to think of himself as a “logical fantasist.” He began writing science fiction and detective stories in the 1920s, but shifted to science fiction post-WWII, focusing on themes of disaster, invasion, and first contact. Faced with these unfathomable and potentially unstoppable children, the question arises: What will humanity do when faced with the threat of the unknown? The resultant children of Midwich are shockingly, frighteningly other. ![]() A day later, the object is gone-and all the women in the village, they will come to learn, are now pregnant. What if the women of a sleepy English village all became simultaneously pregnant, and the children, once born, possessed supernatural-and possibly alien-powers?Ī mysterious silver object appears in quiet, picture-perfect Midwich. I myself had a dream about a highly intelligent nonhuman baby after reading this book.”-Margaret Atwood, Slate a graphic metaphor for the fear of unwanted pregnancies. The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, introduction by Kelly Link, cover illustration by Anders Nilsen / ISBN 9780593450123 / 213-page paperback from Modern LibraryĪ genre-defining tale of first contact by one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant-and neglected-science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called “the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.” ![]()
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