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Cuckoos lay eggs in other birds' nests. The clutch that was fathered on the quiet little village of Midwich, one night in September, proved to possess a monstrous will of its own. Imt promised to make the human race look as dated as the dinosaur.
- Sales Rank: #3036575 in Books
- Published on: 2000-04
- Released on: 2000-05-02
- Format: International Edition
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.80" h x .51" w x 5.04" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 190 pages
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"Clyde gives an excellent performance" Sue Baker, Publishing News"Jeremy Clyde's reading cannot be faulted. His characterisations are subtle and he brings considerable drama to the unfolding narrative. --audiobooksreview.co.uk
About the Author
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Benyon Harris was born in 1903, the son of a barrister. He tried a number of careers including farming, law, commercial art and advertising, and started writing short stories, intended for sale, in 1925. From 1930 to 1939 he wrote short stories of various kinds under different names, almost exclusively for American publications, while also writing detective novels. During the war he was in the Civil Service and then the Army. In 1946 he went back to writing stories for publication in the USA and decided to try a modified form of science fiction, a form he called 'logical fantasy'. As John Wyndham he wrote The Day of the Triffids, The Kraken Wakes, The Chrysalids, The Midwich Cuckoos (filmed as Village of the Damned), The Seeds of Time, Trouble with Lichen, The Outward Urge, Consider Her Ways and Others, Web and Chocky. John Wyndham died in March 1969.
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"If you have never read Wyndham, you are missing some excellent books."
By Carl E. Ahlm
If you grew up in the 50's and enjoyed movies, you may remember the quiet English village which mysteriously has a small population explosion which results in about 40 similar, yet cherubic, children who look strangely alike, and all seem to have strange, almost golden, eyes. That was the very popular "Village of the Damned," a 1960 British science fiction horror film. That film was based on John Wyndham's 1957 book "The Midwich Cuckoos." Wyndham's 1951 novel, "The Day of the Triffids" established him as a writer and his books as movie material.
"The Midwich Cuckoos" begins with Richard and Janet Gayford, who have spent the night of September 26 in London, returning home to the sleepy little village of Midwich the following day. Then, in ways that are difficult to pin down, the village seems changed. We soon realize that they, as were the main characters in the "The Day of the Triffids," were luckily spared due simply to chance. Here, most women regardless of age or marital status have become pregnant virtually over night. As the children rapidly grow, so too does their intellect and strange abilities or powers.
While Wyndham's writing is best classified as fantasy or science fiction, his themes embody so much more. Although the language is dated a bit and certainly "English" vocabulary rather than American, the power behind the story is strong. Still, "The Midwich Cuckoos" is a relatively easy read. While admittedly not quite as good as perhaps "The Day of the Triffids" or "The Chrysalids," plot and theme wise there is a lot more going on rather than just Sci Fi! If you enjoy Science Fiction and have never read Wyndham, you are missing a significant author and some excellent books. I strongly recommend "The Midwich Cuckoos" and his writings to you.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
My rating of this book is not for the story ...
By Michael Watson
My rating of this book is not for the story itself--which is a minor classic of science fiction--but for the appalling number of typographical errors. I think there were dozens. the word "kittens" came out as "Uttar". Very frequently indeed, the word "I" was run together with the word that followed, i.e., ""Inow" rather than "I now"', "Ithink" rather than "I think"'! etc. I find it difficult to believe that anyone proofread this edition before submitting it. There is simply no excuse for this.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
The Village of the Damned
By Elliot
John Wyndham's 1957 British science fiction novel has been the basis for three movies-- the (excellent) "Village of the Damned" (1960), which follows the book pretty closely; the (obscure, but very good) "Children of the Damned" (1963), which was marketed as a sequel to the 1960 film, but is not a sequel at all, rather an entirely new film very loosely based on the book; and John Carpenter's (terrible) re-make, "Village of the Damned" (1995).
Wyndham's novel starts very slowly, but that is not a flaw; the low-key, matter-of-fact accumulation of details of life in a small British village makes the story's horror all the more potent when the reader (and the characters) slowly realize what has been happening around them. Everyone in a tiny village is suddenly rendered unconscious; they awake a day later, seemingly none the worse for wear-- until they realize that every woman in the village (including virgins) is pregnant. Wyndham's title, "The Midwich Cuckoos," refers to the way some species of cuckoo birds leave their eggs in other birds' nests; the cuckoo egg hatches first, and the cuckoo chick destroys the other eggs. That the mysterious Midwich babies have a similar fate in mind for the people of earth is not immediately apparent, but becomes so only when it seems too late to prevent it.
This alien invasion is far less dramatic that the tentacled Martians of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, or the walking plants of Wyndham's own earlier novel, The Day of the Triffids (RosettaBooks Into Film), but is all the more chilling for its seemingly innocuous beginning. Wyndham even has one of the characters talk about how the dilemma they face is so different from that in Wells' novel or in Hollywood's 1950s monster movies (which he skewers brilliantly).
This is an excellent science fiction novel, with both great suspense and some serious ideas. My only caveat is that the Kindle edition from Rosetta Books has a lot of annoying typos. But the story is very much worth reading.
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