The Midwich Cuckoos Wyndham John
A genre-defining tale of first contact by one of the twentieth century's most brilliant--and neglected--science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called the best writer of science fiction…
Specifikacia The Midwich Cuckoos Wyndham John
A genre-defining tale of first contact by one of the twentieth century's most brilliant--and neglected--science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.What if the women of a sleepy English village all became mysteriously and simultaneously pregnant--and the children, once born, possessed supernatural (and possibly alien) powers?A mysterious silver object appears in the sleepy English village of Midwich, and all the inhabitants fall unconscious. A day later the object is gone and everyone wakes up unharmed--except that all the women in the village are now pregnant.The resultant children of Midwich are blond, possess golden eyes, grow at an abnormally fast pace, and exhibit telekinetic abilities: they are shockingly, frighteningly Other. As their powers