by John Wyndham · Penguin UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140014402
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«The Midwich Cuckoos» is the science fiction novel by John Wyndham, published by Penguin UK in paperback (224 pages, in English).
In the English village of Midwich, a silver object knocks the residents unconscious. Upon waking, all the women are pregnant. The children are born blonde with golden eyes, grow very quickly, and develop a common will that controls others, pitting them against the village and the outside world.
Novel originally published in 1957 and adapted to film twice under the title Village of the Damned.
A work for readers of classic British science fiction, with alien invasion and telepathy as its core themes.
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.
