# The Chrysalids

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- Book: [The Chrysalids](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-wyndham/the-chrysalids) ([The Chrysalids.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-wyndham/the-chrysalids.md))
- Authors: [John Wyndham](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-wyndham)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-147-9
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2000-02-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

" In a decade marked, much like our own, by simple fears, John Wyndham refused to make simple metaphors". -M John Harrison. A world paralyzed by genetic mutation: Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of a community where the chances of breeding true are less than fifty percent and where deviations are rooted out and destroyed as abominations.