by John Wyndham · Penguin UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140031218
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«Chocky» is the science fiction novel by John Wyndham, published by Penguin UK in paperback (160 pages, in English).
Matthew, an eleven-year-old boy, holds conversations with an invisible presence called Chocky, something his parents first attribute to a phase. Soon the boy demonstrates abilities he should not have, such as solving calculations in binary code, and the question of who Chocky is and what she wants becomes inevitable.
Originally published in 1968, it was John Wyndham's last novel; he died in 1969.
Readers of classic science fiction and stories with child protagonists; it has also been considered young adult reading.
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was an English science fiction writer best known for his works published under the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. Some of his works were set in post-apocalyptic landscapes. His best known works include The Day of the Triffids (1951), filmed in 1962, and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), which was filmed in 1960 as Village of the Damned, in 1995 under the same title, and again in 2022 in Sky Max under its original title.
