![]() ![]() Midwich is a typical English village, events over the course of its 1000 year history have gone largely unremarked -until now. ![]() The laws evolved by one particular species, for the convenience of that species, are, by their nature, concerned only with the capacities of that species – against a species with different capacities they simply become inapplicable. Wyndham’ s themes are woven seamlessly throughout this novel, questions of societal and parental responsibility, sit alongside the idea of a malign and collectively destructive will, and what, when threatened we might be prepared to do, in order to survive. Compelling and inventive for me it is not as dated as the publication date my lead one to expect. The Midwich Cuckoos is a kind of sci-fi/ dystopian mix, and as such books generally do, it covers some fascinating themes. ![]()
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