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What was the name of the John Wyndham novel in which all the women in a certain village are impregnated on the same night and give birth to mysterious children?
a. Foul Play Suspected
b. The Day of the Triffods
c. The Chysalids
d. The Midwich Cuckoos
e. The Outward Urge
f. Trouble with Lichen
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a. Foul Play Suspected
b. The Day of the Triffods
c. The Chysalids
d. The Midwich Cuckoos
e. The Outward Urge
f. Trouble with Lichen
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John Wyndham
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born
July 10, 1903
died
March 11, 1969
gender
male
place of birth
Knowle, Warwickshire, The United Kingdom
genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy
about this author
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was the son of a barrister. After trying a number of careers, including farming, law, commercial art and advertising, he started writing short stories in 1925. After serving in the civil Service and the Army during the war, he went back to writing. Adopting the name John Wyndham, he started writing a form of science fiction that he called 'logical fantasy. As well as The Day of the Triffids, he wrote The Kraken Wakes, The Chrysalids, The Midwich Cuckoos (filmed as Village of the Damned) and The Seeds of Time.
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The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham avg rating 3.98 — 1,467 ratings — published 1951 48 editions |
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The Chrysalids by John Wyndham avg rating 3.87 — 1,054 ratings — published 1955 27 editions |
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The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham avg rating 3.90 — 426 ratings — published 1957 25 editions |
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The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham avg rating 3.63 — 276 ratings — published 1953 12 editions |
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Chocky (Puffin Books) by John Wyndham avg rating 3.71 — 263 ratings — published 1968 11 editions |
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Trouble with Lichen by John Wyndham avg rating 3.57 — 200 ratings — published 1960 10 editions |
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The Seeds of Time by John Wyndham avg rating 3.60 — 100 ratings — published 1956 3 editions |
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Consider Her Ways and Others by John Wyndham avg rating 3.64 — 81 ratings — published 1961 2 editions |
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Web by John Wyndham avg rating 3.32 — 68 ratings — published 1979 9 editions |
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Stowaway to Mars by John Wyndham avg rating 3.08 — 25 ratings — published 1935 5 editions |
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"It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm."
— John Wyndham (The Day of the Triffids)
— John Wyndham (The Day of the Triffids)
"Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence."
— John Wyndham (The Day of the Triffids)
— John Wyndham (The Day of the Triffids)
"We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success."
— John Wyndham (The Day of the Triffids)
— John Wyndham (The Day of the Triffids)
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