The Chrysalids

Name: The Chrysalids
Author: John Wyndham

by John Wyndham

Post-apocalyptic survivors with mutant offspring face religious intolerance and survival

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John Wyndham

John Wyndham was a British science fiction author best known for The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos, archetypal cozy catastrophe novels in which ordinary English life is disrupted by alien threats. His work is characterized by middle-class calm in the face of extraordinary disruption. The Chrysalids is his most ambitious and philosophically rich novel.

More by John Wyndham

The Day of the TriffidsHumanity struggles to survive after carnivorous plants appear and spread across Earth
The Midwich CuckoosA remote village bears inexplicably identical, uncanny children with alarming powers
The Kraken WakesAlien creatures inhabit Earth's oceans, threatening civilization from below
Re-BirthMutated humans with telepathy hide from a society that fears genetic change