"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 Strorm's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blasphemies against nature. Little does he realize that his own son, his niece Rosalind and their friends, have their own secret aberration which would label them as mutants. But as David and Rosalind grow older it becomes more difficult to conceal their differences from the village elders.
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David Strorm's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blasphemies against nature. Little does he realize that his own son, his niece 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 Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
The Chrysalids has 224 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Essentials series
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