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Cuckoos lay eggs in other bird's nests. The clutch that was fathered on the quiet little village of Midwich, one night in September, proved to possess a monstrous will of its own. It promised to make the human race look as dated as the dinosaur.
About the Author
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Benyon Harris was born in 1903, the son of a barrister. He tried a number of careers including farming, law, commercial art and advertising, and started writing short stories, intended for sale, in 1925. From 1930 to 1939 he wrote stories of various kinds under different names, almost exclusively for American publications, while also writing detective novels. During the war he was in the Civil Service and then the Army. In 1946 he went back to writing stories for publication in the USA and decided to try a modified form of science fiction, a form he called 'logical fantasy'. As John Wyndham he wrote The Day of the Triffids and The Kraken Wakes (both widely translated), The Chrysalids, The Midwich Cuckoos (filmed as Village of the Damned), The Seeds of Time, Trouble with Lichen, The Outward Urge (with Lucas Parkes) and Chocky. He died in March 1969.

This was an entertaining read but does now feel a little dated despite it being from the sci-fi genre. Attitudes surrounding the opinions of women or how valid a woman's observations were regarded, gave this book a time stamp! This, unlike the innocent style of Chocky followed a variety of discussions bordering upon intellectual ones...perhaps giving it a bit of an air of a fuddy-duddy nature! I vaguely remember watching a film based on this book but wasn't very impressed and now I've read the book I can understand why. I'm sure you can tell, but I was disappointed with this read - especially so that it has appeared on the 1001 list of books to read before you die.

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Book was waiting for me when I got in from work. Many thanks for sharing I look forward to reading it.

By reading purely what is written on the page the novel appears to be a about a struggle between aliens and humans – but delve a little deeper it becomes apparent it's actually about a struggle between men and women. There is pregnancy, abortion, childbirth and motherhood, and whilst the children may have alien fathers they also have human mothers a point the narrator seems to totally disregard. In fact the women's' opinions go largely unheard. The ending, an act of genocide, only underlines this point.

This novel would no doubt be regarded nowadays as being at the softer end of the SF genre yet still goes on to ask some pretty profound questions about the limits of our culture and perhaps what it means to be truly human, all of which is achieved with subtle irony and ambiguity. This book deserves to be on the 1001 list and also deserves to be read more widely.

Spotted this on a wishlist so off to hopefully make a new friend. Enjoy!

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