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  • Published: 29 June 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141045436
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 204
  • RRP: $15.99

The Chrysalids: Popular Penguins



As David and Rosalind grow older it becomes more difficult to conceal the differences which would label them as mutants from the village elders. Soon they face a choice: wait for eventual discovery, or flee to the terrifying and mutable Badlands . . . The Chrysalids is a post-nuclear apocalypse story of genetic mutation in a devastated world and explores the lengths the intolerant will go to to keep themselves pure.

  • Published: 29 June 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141045436
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 204
  • RRP: $15.99

About the author

John Wyndham

John Wyndham was born in 1903 in the Midlands. After leaving school, he tried his hand at several careers, including farming, law and advertising, before starting to write stories in 1925. During the war he worked as a censor in the Ministry of Information and afterwards served in the Army. The Day of The Triffids was published in 1951, and was followed by many other famous works of science fiction, including The Kraken Wakes, The Chrysalids and The Midwich Cuckoos. Wyndham died in 1969.

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