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Web - John Wyndham
Web
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Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ISBN 10: 0140053387Among the forty-odd men and women selected for the project are a pestologist named Camilla and the narrator. Within hours of the group's arrival on the sunny isle, their radio has been destroyed. Within days several... show more
Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ISBN 10: 0140053387Among the forty-odd men and women selected for the project are a pestologist named Camilla and the narrator. Within hours of the group's arrival on the sunny isle, their radio has been destroyed. Within days several members of the group are dead. Dream turns to nightmare as they discover the that the island is overrun by a species programmed to resist and dominate any invader. Soon Camilla and the narrator are the sole survivors...
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Format: paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 141
Edition language: English
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The Professor
The Professor rated it
3.0 Web
“Hundreds of thousands of them.” Kingsley Amis in his ‘New Maps Of Hell’ praises John Wyndham’s ‘coherence and concision’ and ‘Web’ is a good example of such qualities; Wyndham does here for Spider Island what he did for walking killer plants. Rejected by his publishers and only surfacing posthumous...
If These Books Could Talk
If These Books Could Talk rated it
3.0 Web
Never used to have a problem with spiders, in fact I am quite fond of the clever little buggers. But, from here on in, thanks solely to Mr Wyndham, I will be eyeing them with extreme caution.
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