2 Books by John Wyndham
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Overview: John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (1903 – 1969) was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. Many of his works were set in post-apocalyptic landscapes.
Genre: Fiction » Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
The Secret People
‘The Sun Bird was beginning to travel fast, close to the edge of the whirlpool. They could look right down into the hollow of spinning water’
While flying over Africa’s New Sea, a water project in the heart of the Sahara desert, Mark Sunnet’s rocket plane crashes and is sucked through a hole in the desert floor into a strange, cavernous new world.
There, he and his partner Margaret encounter the survivors of an ancient race of underground dwellers whose whole existence is now threatened. Captured and forced to live with other prisoners taken from the surface, the pair know that they must escape before the waters above drown them all…
The Secret People, published in 1935, is John Wyndham’s first novel.
The Chrysalids
First published in 1955, The Chrysalids is a post-nuclear story of genetic mutation in a devastated world, which tells of the lengths the intolerant will go to to keep themselves pure. 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. Soon they face a choice: wait for eventual discovery or flee to the terrifying and mutable Badlands ?
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