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John Wyndham - The Chrysalids
A young boy growing up in a religious family in a world where mutations are common, and seen as an offence against god.
Mutated crops are burned, animals killed and babies sterilised and left in the wilderness.
The protagonist realises that him and his friends ability to communicate telepathically is in fact a mutation...
First read this at school age 11, and it's still a favourite.
A young boy growing up in a religious family in a world where mutations are common, and seen as an offence against god.
Mutated crops are burned, animals killed and babies sterilised and left in the wilderness.
The protagonist realises that him and his friends ability to communicate telepathically is in fact a mutation...
First read this at school age 11, and it's still a favourite.
If you're into history and travel, I cannot recommend Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger enough. He travels (1945-50) along the Arabian Peninsula and the Empty Quarter with the Bedouin tribes that lived there. It's essentially a love letter to an ancient way of life that was being eroded by the discovery of oil even while Wilfred was there immediately following WW2, it's rather sad in places as Thesiger curses what he knows is coming.
I read it in 2022, and I'm talking myself into a re-read.
Michael
I read it in 2022, and I'm talking myself into a re-read.
Michael
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