Chocky, by John Wyndham
"Why do cows stop?"
Seems like a normal goofy kid question, right? But like many goofy kid questions, it's actually getting at a very complex issue. And the kid who asks it, twelve-year-old Matthew, has a lot more questions along similar lines: "Why does a week have seven days?" "Where is the Earth?" "Why are there men and women?"
But Matthew isn't just a bright, curious kid. He says it's not him that's asking the questions. It's Chocky.
This is the kind of book where even tagging it by genre is a spoiler. But since I always do that, I will say that this is not a horror novel. It's science fiction and it's surprisingly sweet, especially considering how dark most of Wyndham's other books are. Maybe Chocky took him over long enough to write this one.
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Seems like a normal goofy kid question, right? But like many goofy kid questions, it's actually getting at a very complex issue. And the kid who asks it, twelve-year-old Matthew, has a lot more questions along similar lines: "Why does a week have seven days?" "Where is the Earth?" "Why are there men and women?"
But Matthew isn't just a bright, curious kid. He says it's not him that's asking the questions. It's Chocky.
This is the kind of book where even tagging it by genre is a spoiler. But since I always do that, I will say that this is not a horror novel. It's science fiction and it's surprisingly sweet, especially considering how dark most of Wyndham's other books are. Maybe Chocky took him over long enough to write this one.
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