"I maintain there wouldn’t be the X-Men without Wyndham’s 1955 classic."
I maintain there wouldn’t be the X-Men without Wyndham’s 1955 classic. Generations after some undisclosed nuclear disaster, the ‘Tribulation’, Davey is the son of a maniacal preacher in a strict religious community obsessed with genetic purity. All this would be OK if Davey and his friends weren’t secretly mutants with superhuman psychic gifts. By no means a perfect novel, but the premise here is gold, and surely the inspiration for much that followed.
David's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blasphemies against nature. And blasphemies, as everyone knows, should be burned: KEEP PURE THE STOCK OF THE LORD; WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT.Little does he realise that his own son - and his son's cousin Rosalind and their friends - have their own secret aberration which would label them as mutants. And mutants, as everyone knows, should be burned.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 - and death - or flee to the terrifying and mutable Badlands . . .
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David's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blasphemies against nature. And blasphemies, as everyone knows, should be burned: KEEP PURE THE STOCK OF THE LORD; WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT.Little does he realise that his own son - and his son's cousin Rosalind and their friends - have their own secret aberration which would label them as mutants.
The Chrysalids features in the following genres: eBooks of the Month, Recommendations, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction, Speculative fiction
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The Chrysalids was written by John Wyndham and published by Gollancz an imprint of Orion
The Chrysalids has 208 pages
Yes it is part of S.F. MASTERWORKS series
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