The inhabitants of post-apocalypse Labrador have vague knowledge of the "e;Old People,"e; a technologically advanced civilization they believe was destroyed when God sent "e;Tribulation"e; to the world to punish their forebears' sins.Now the inhabitants of this new world practise a form of fundamentalist Christianity. To follow God's word and prevent another Tribulation, they must preserve absolute normality among the surviving humans, plants, and animals-and therefore practice a brutal for of eugenics. Humans with even minor mutations are considered blasphemies and either killed or sterilized and banished to the Fringes, a lawless and untamed area rife with animal and plant mutations. But there may be hope for this dark civilation in the form of a new set of human mutations...A classic science fiction novel by the author of The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos.
| ISBN: | 9781479461868 |
| Publication date: | 11th August 2021 |
| Author: | John Wyndham |
| Publisher: | Distributed By PublishDrive |
| Format: | Ebook |
The inhabitants of post-apocalypse Labrador have vague knowledge of the "e;Old People,"e; a technologically advanced civilization they believe was destroyed when God sent "e;Tribulation"e; to the world to punish their forebears' sins.Now the inhabitants of this new world practise a form of fundamentalist Christianity. To follow God's word and prevent another Tribulation, they must preserve absolute normality among the surviving humans, plants, and animals-and therefore practice a brutal for of eugenics. Humans with even minor mutations are considered blasphemies and either killed or sterilized and banished to the Fringes, a lawless and untamed area rife with animal and plant mutations. But there may be hope for this dark civilation in the form of a new set of human mutations...A classic science fiction novel by the author of The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos.
Chrysalids is available in Ebook
Chrysalids was written by John Wyndham and published by Distributed By PublishDrive
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