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A robust post-apocalyptic allegory of persecution and intolerance, the Penguin Modern Classics release of John Wyndham's technology fiction masterpiece The Day of the Triffids includes an benefits by M. John Harrison. Nuclear conflict has devastated the planet, bringing with it a host of genetic mutations. Inside the bleak, primitive contemporary society that has surfaced from its ruins, any indication of deviation, no matter how small, is ruthlessly rooted out and ruined. David lives in fear of discovery, for he's part of an secret group of children who are able to communicate with each other by transferring thought-shapes into each other's heads. As they get older, they feel ever more isolated. Then one of them marries a 'norm', with terrifying outcomes. John Wyndham (1903-1969) the child of an barrister, tried a number of professions including farming, legislation, commercial skill and advertising before writing brief stories, intended for sale, in 1925. After portion in the Civil Service and the Army during the Second World Battle, he decided to try writing a altered form of Knowledge Fiction, which he called 'rational dream'. Among his most well-known books are The Day of the Triffids (1951), The Kraken Wakes (1953), The Chrysalids (1955), The Midwich Cuckoos (1957, filmed doubly Village of the Damned), Trouble with Lichen (1960), and Chocky (1968). If you loved The Chrysalids, you may like Arthur Miller's The Crucible, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'One of those few authors whose compulsive readability is a go with to the brains' Spectator
