This one went into and explored many of the points that I thought Chocky would, which is doubly great because creepy kids are disturbing as hell, and because I can give Wyndham props for not repeating himself in hindsight. There are differences with the pop-culture classic movie, as it always happ...
The scariest scenarios to me are always the most ordinary ones, where it takes a good long time for anyone to realize that something is wrong, and what that something is. And what could it mean? And what should one do about it? Can one do anything about it? For some reason I think the Brits really e...
I'm going to have to be honest and say that I really didn't like this book all that much, which from glancing over my friends' reviews seems to put me at odds with pretty much all of them (or at least the ones who actually wrote something). Mind you, the one thing that I did like about it (or at lea...
Wyndham had a reputation for writing "cozy catastrophes" and of the books that I have read this one most lives up to its reputation for that. The plot concerns aliens impregnating an entire English village full of women. It is clear to everyone what's taken place and there is a certain amount of f...
Three and a half stars, I rounded down because I feel like I've been getting a little four-star-happy of late.Gotta give some serious props to Dan for recommending this to me upon my proclamation that I find few things scarier than powerful children en masse. If that's your thing, then this is the b...
Once upon a time in the peaceful English village of Midwich circa 1957, every female of child-bearing age within falls pregnant. In time it becomes clear the children are... well, different. A horror story based not on supernatural monsters but the aliens of science fiction born of the paranoid post...
An intelligent and thought provoking slice of 1950s Cold War-influenced British science fiction. I enjoyed the bourgeoise village life evoked by John Wyndham. That said the book does also show its age: the female characters all underdeveloped, they are generally too distracted, and/or besotted by ...
The Basics One day, everyone in Midwich just falls asleep. Then they all just wake up. It turns out that during this time, every woman in the village was impregnated. And as strange as that sounds, it’s only the beginning. My Thoughts So consider the look on my face when I found out that Villa...
The Midwich Cuckoos is part sci-fi and part horror story with a greater emphasis on the sci-fi elements. John Wyndham with this tale, in combination with The Day of the Triffids and The Chrysalids, has cemented a place on my list of all time great science fiction authors. His works are both entertai...
I really liked the premise quite a bit, but there were several problems with this book. There was no reason for the story to be told in first person (as about 75% of it was essentially told in 3rd person anyway). The solution to the main story problem could have been handled differently, without the...
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