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Verified Purchase. I've just finished reading THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS (, Penguin trade paperback) by WWII veteran John Wyndham (). And, as critics have written, Wyndham is "the best British science fiction writer since H. G. Wells"; and "THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS is Wyndham's chef d'oeuvre." While Wyndham's earlier The Day of the Triffids (recently read) is a more sprawling novel, /5().  · His best known works include The Day of the Triffids () and The Midwich Cuckoos (). A pacifist and socialist, Wyndham was alive to the impact of sexism, classism, and prejudice and his novels reflect his liberal www.doorway.ru: Random House Publishing Group.  · By (author) John Wyndham. Share. FROM THE CLASSIC SCI-FI WRITER AND AUTHOR OF THE CHRYSTALIDS AND THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS. 'Exciting, unsettling and technically brilliant' Spectator. In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitants fall unconscious. A day later the object is gone and everyone awakens /5(K).

THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS by John Wyndham (the best known penname of an author who had more names than a secret agent) is a fascinating and uneasy book to read. Although its plot is certainly frightening enough, it's told in such a leisurely, old-fashioned style that the menace seems subdued and almost cozy. The Midwich Cuckoos audiobook written by John Wyndham. Narrated by Bill Nighy, Full Cast, and Sarah Parish. Get instant access to all your favorite books. No monthly commitment. Listen online or offline with Android, iOS, web, Chromecast, and Google Assistant. Try Google Play Audiobooks today! John Wyndham s The Midwich Cuckoos, published in , is better known by the more sensational title of its two film adaptations, 'Village of the Damned'. In the author s typically elegant and calm manner, the novel explores the arrival on earth of a collective intelligence that threatens to eliminate humankind.

Verified Purchase. I've just finished reading THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS (, Penguin trade paperback) by WWII veteran John Wyndham (). And, as critics have written, Wyndham is "the best British science fiction writer since H. G. Wells"; and "THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS is Wyndham's chef d'oeuvre." While Wyndham's earlier The Day of the Triffids (recently read) is a more sprawling novel, encompassing more characters, action and wider geography, THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS is more tightly contained in. That film was based on John Wyndham's book "The Midwich Cuckoos." Wyndham's 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. The Midwich Cuckoos is a science fiction novel written by the English author John Wyndham. It tells the tale of an English village in which the women become pregnant by brood parasitic aliens. The book has been praised by many critics, including the dramatist Dan Rebellato, who called it a searching novel of moral ambiguities, and the novelist Margaret Atwood, who called the book Wyndham's chef d'oeuvre.