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The Chrysalids by M. John Harrison, John Wyndham

ISBN: 9780141181479
Release Date: 03 Feb 2000
Average rating: (read by 47 members)

Categories: Modern fiction , Science fiction , Classic fiction

'In a decade marked, much like our own, by simple fears, John Wyndham refused to make simple metaphors' - M John Harrison. A world paralyzed by genetic mutation: Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of a community where the chances of breeding true are less than fifty percent and where deviations are rooted out and destroyed as abominations.

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	Manybooks Full Review
	Rated it 2 months ago

Very much a product of its time, this haunting story is nevertheless a brilliant look at change and prejudice. I loved it as a youngster, but on re-reading it I found greater depth than I was previously aware of. One of the greats of science fiction by...

	josiehenley
	Rated it 7 months ago

my teenage sci-fi reading, still relevant today

	Valentine Full Review
	Rated it 7 months ago

This is the kind of sci-fi I enjoy, based on imagined societies rather than technological hardware. Set in a post-apocalyptic world (no records remain of what brought this isolated society to this state) where legal and religious forces are used to...

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