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"Whether harsh intolerance and bitter rectitude are the armour worn over fear and disappointment, or whether they are the festival-dress of the sadist, they cover an enemy of the life-force. The difference in kind can be bridged only by self-sacrifice: his self-sacrifice, for yours would bridge nothing. So, there is the severance. We have a new world to conquer: they have only a lost cause to lose."
Gah, Wyndham's so good, both as a writer in general and as a science fiction writer. A lot of this ...more
Gah, Wyndham's so good, both as a writer in general and as a science fiction writer. A lot of this ...more
Wyndham creates a prescient, thrilling, and scarily real vision of a future in the aftermath of a nuclear war here. In the insular world lead character David has grown up in, any fields that grow plants with any genetic mutations are burned, and any human "deviations" are hunted down and left to die in "the Fringes." But some mutations can't be seen with the eye, as David knows, and the whole world is not like his childhood home. I won't give away the rest of the plot but it is amazing. Particul
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This is a strain of sci fi that I really appreciate. Wyndham gives us a human society that has arisen in a different environment than our current world. This is a post-apocalypse story. Many centuries have passed and a boy growing up in a rigid agricultural world finds he is different in a society that does not tolerate difference. He and a few other young people in the area are telepaths. They live in constant fear of being discovered. The story is suspenseful and not gentle. It gives the reade
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Nov 15, 2009
Gaijinmama
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Jan 13, 2011
Rosemary
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it was amazing
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Jama
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Ariel
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Karen Michele Burns
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Joanna
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