The Midwich Cuckoos

The Midwich Cuckoos
Authors
John Wyndham
Publisher
RosettaBooks
ISBN
9780795312120
Date
1957
Size
0.26 MB
Lang
en
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The classic science fiction horror novel of possessed children that inspired the terrifying Village of the Damned films. In John Wyndham's classically elegant, calm style, this novel explores the arrival of a collective intelligence on earth that threatens to eliminate mankind. The quiet, eerie changes that befall Midwich manifest in strange ways: On the surface, everything seems normal, but scratch a little deeper and there is a clear sense of dread. After the night of September 26, every woman of childbearing age is pregnant, all to give birth at the same time, to children who are all aliketheir eyes mesmerizing, void of emotion. These children are innately possessed with unimaginable mental powers and a formidable intelligence. It is these children who develop into an unstoppable force, capable of anything and far out-reaching other humans in cunning. Whatever dwells in Midwich is sowing the seeds for a master race of ruthless and...