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“The Midwich Cuckoos” John Wyndham, (1957) Review | Uncomfortable

The Midwich Cuckoos
John Wyndham, 1957
UK
240 pages
Read in 2022.12
check synopsis and details on amazon.com


✔ All the babies are born on a same day, with same abilities
✔ Strength of a community against the unusual
✔ Weird Science Fiction from the UK


🔽 Review summary 🔽

★★★★☆ In a quiet town all women got pregnant, but the babies only like each other, with their bright eyes and unusual senses. Uncomfortable, feels too real.


🔽 Book review and notes 🔽

Recommended by a friend, so no knowledge of the story or the author, and it was subtly weird.
Maybe I’ve never really read sci-fi books consciously, so I can’t really compare with other books in the genre but it is a mild but certainly worrying sci-fi.

In a quiet town, one day they all fell unconscious, when they woke up women were pregnant, all at the same time.
Soon the babies are born, not looking like their parents but like each other, with their bright eyes and they become worryingly strong, smart and connected to each other.
Who, or what are they?
What do we do? What is the right thing to do? How do we stop?

It’s uncomfortable and definitely worrying because it feels too real.

Once upon a time, our enemies were aliens or some obvious external factors.
Good ol’ days.
Now we need to he scared of us humans.

🔽 Where to buy / Summary and more info 🔽

●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●

The Midwich Cuckoos


●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
The Midwich Cuckoos

●●● Amazon.it (Italy) ●●●
Il villaggio dei dannati (italiano)