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The Midwich cuckoos

The Midwich Cuckoos is a suspenseful and thought-provoking novel that delves into the enigmatic occurrence of a group of children being born to women who have not been pregnant. Set in the 1950s, the story unfolds in the English village of Midwich, where the sudden appearance of these children leads to a series of investigations and moral dilemmas. The novel examines the psychological effects on the community, the scientific explanations proposed, and the broader implications of the phenomenon. more

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John Wyndham
John Wyndham

John Wyndham was an English science fiction writer known for his novels that often explore social and environmental issues. His works are renowned for their unique imagination and profound insights. more

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“To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity, a part of no whole; a freak without a place. If he cannot hold on to his reason, then he is lost indeed; most utterly, most fearfully lost, so that he becomes no more than the twitch in the limb of a corpse.”

“As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there is a biological law of flux and reflux, his situation is now a highly perilous one. During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.”