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267:. David's Uncle Axel, who learned about the group from talking to David about his telepathy when he was young, advises David and protects them from persecution. He commends David on the wisdom of hiding his and the others' ability, and later kills the husband of one of the group's members who was planning to blackmail the telepaths. David's younger sister Petra demonstrates exceptionally strong telepathic talent when her horse is attacked by a wildcat—she calls to all the telepaths for help across the entire Waknuk area, and stuns those closest to her. That leads to suspicion from the locals, and Uncle Axel warns the group, via David, that the Inspectors are beginning to investigate them. 633:
nature." This line is rendered in the lyrics as "Life is change – How it differs from the rocks." The portion of the song that reads: "In loyalty to their kind / they cannot tolerate our minds. / In loyalty to our kind / we cannot tolerate their obstruction" is from an explanation by the New Zealand woman that asserts the inevitability of conflict between a more advanced species and its less advanced progenitors. (The book's original phrase is "they cannot tolerate our
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understand why he has these dreams or what they mean, and is cautious about mentioning it to his father, lest he raise suspicion that he's a mutant. He makes friends with Sophie, a girl who secretly has six toes on one of her feet. Later, Sophie's family attempts to escape from the reprisals (ceremonies in which blasphemies are sterilized) when her wet footprints are seen and reported by a local boy.
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heroism, commitment and love, Michael remains behind with Rachel when they find out that the aircraft bringing the four of the telepaths to Zealand does not have enough fuel to also collect Rachel from Waknuk and get home again. He declares his intention to find some other way to come to Zealand with Rachel at some future time.
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Sophie Wender is a young girl born with six toes on one of her feet. Sophie lives with her parents in an isolated cottage somewhere north-west of Waknuk. Her deviation from the "norm" keeps her from associating with other children. She befriends David after he discovers her secret but promises not to
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Critics have disagreed with Wyndham's implication that two differently evolved species must necessarily fight to the death. Wyndham justifies this in a lengthy speech from the Sealand woman near the end of the novel, but her reasoning seems at odds with the implicit plea for tolerance in the earlier
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Michael is the most objective, perceptive and decisive of the telepaths, the best educated, and in many ways plays a leading role in the group despite his physical absence from events in the story. His telepathic abilities remain secret, and during the pursuit into the Fringes he joins the leading
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was inspired by the novel. Its title and lyrics are drawn from the text and plot with permission from Wyndham. One example lifted almost verbatim from the text reflects a philosophical explanation by the New Zealand woman: "But life is change, that is how it differs from rocks, change is its very
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The inland rural settlement of Waknuk is a frontier farming community, populated with hardy and pious individuals, and is where the story mainly takes place. David Strorm, the son of Waknuk's most religious man, Joseph Strorm, has dreams of large cities and "horseless carts", although he does not
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Later, two telepaths, Katherine and Sally, are captured and tortured for information, while David, his cousin Rosalind and Petra escape to the Fringes. A group of men from various districts band together to track and capture the telepaths—unknown to the Norms, the posse includes a telepath named
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Rachel is the last remaining telepath in Waknuk after David, Rosalind and Petra depart to Zealand. As her own elder sister who was also a telepath had committed suicide earlier in the book, her possible fate of being left alone whilst the others depart carries even greater pathos. As an act of
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wrote that Wyndham "failed to realize how good a thing he had. The sixth toe was immensely believable, and sufficient; but Wyndham has dragged in a telepathic mutation on top of it; has made David himself one of the nine child telepaths, and hauled the whole plot away from his carefully built
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The Sealand woman and her people are from a technologically advanced society where telepathic ability, while not ubiquitous, is far more common and is accepted, promoted and studied. The woman calls her country "Zealand", but the telepaths (having had only second-hand contact through Petra)
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Joseph Strorm is the father of David and Petra. He is a domineering personality, deeply religious, and unyielding on the subject of mutations and blasphemy, even punishing David severely for an unintentionally blasphemous remark about "needing an extra hand" to apply a
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Uncle Axel is a widely travelled former sailor, open minded and willing to question conventional religious precepts. Upon discovering David's telepathy, he counsels caution and extracts a promise that David take great care not to allow others to learn of his
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similarly found the novel made "something completely fresh" out of a familiar theme, commending Wyndham's "accumulation of minutely plausible detail" and "greater depth and maturity than he has shown in previous novels". Writing in
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Michael who keeps the escaping group informed of the trackers' progress. Later, with Petra's strong telepathic abilities, they contact a society with telepaths in a different country they mistakenly refer to as "Sealand" (
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comes heart-wrenchingly close to being John Wyndham's most powerful and profound work", but that "Wyndham stumbles—catastrophically—at the climax, in a way that actually undermines the story's thematic foundations".
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against anyone who is abnormal means he and the others must keep their abilities carefully hidden. David and Rosalind's love for each other is kept secret from their parents because of a bitter feud between their
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Petra Strorm is the youngest of the Strorm children. The group of telepaths discovers that her ability is extraordinarily strong and difficult to resist, placing the group at greater risk of discovery.
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Christianity; they believe that to follow God's word and prevent another Tribulation, they must preserve absolute normality among the surviving humans, plants and animals, and therefore practice
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does not differ markedly from Wyndham's other novels, the subject matter is rather different. While most are set against a mid-twentieth-century English middle-class background,
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The novel was adapted by Barbara Clegg as a single 90-minute drama for BBC Radio 4, directed by Michael Bartlett, and first broadcast on 24 April 1981. The cast includes:
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Rosalind Morton is David's closest friend among the group of telepaths. They become more of a couple later on in the book. She lives on a neighbouring farm and is David's
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or the possession of over-sized horses. These are deemed by the government to be legitimate breeds, either existing before or achieved through
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There is critical disagreement regarding whether the intervention of the Sealand culture at the end of the novel should be considered a
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Later, the existence of geographic areas far less affected by the nuclear exchange and fallout are established, particularly Sealand (
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described it as "a remarkably tender story of a post-nuclear childhood" and "a classic to most of its three generations of readers".
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and banished to the Fringes, a lawless and untamed area rife with animal and plant mutations, and suggested to be contaminated with
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David Strorm is the narrator of the story. David is one of a small group of youngsters who can communicate with each other via
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have vague knowledge of the "Old People", a technologically advanced civilization they believe was destroyed when God sent "
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people with bizarre habits. Northern islands are described as being cold and inhabited chiefly by birds and sea animals (
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praised the novel as "so skillfully done that the fact that it's not a shiny new idea makes absolutely no difference".
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judged the novel as "brilliant" and "a top-notch piece of sci-fi that should be enjoyed for generations yet to come".
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background, into just one more damned chase with a rousing cliche at the end of it ... this error is fatal."
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is set in a future society which is described in some detail. Unlike most of his novels, it is also a
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reviewer George W. Earley praised it as "a compelling story and Mr. Wyndham's best novel to date."
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Though the nature of "Tribulation" is not explicitly stated, it is implied that it was a
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of the novel in ten 15-minute episodes, broadcast daily between 17 and 28 August 1970.
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reported that Wyndham "has made the Mutant theme believable in a way that
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David and a few other children in Waknuk hide their own form of mutation,
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to give updates and warnings to David, Rosalind and Petra as they flee.
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This version was released on CD by BBC Audiobooks in 2007.
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in 2012. It was also adapted for the theatre by playwright
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Index

Chrysalis

John Wyndham
Science fiction
Michael Joseph
United Kingdom
ISBN
0-14-001308-3
The Kraken Wakes
The Midwich Cuckoos
John Wyndham
Michael Joseph
adapted for BBC radio
Barbara Clegg
Jane Rogers
David Harrower
post-apocalypse
Labrador
Tribulation
fundamentalist
eugenics
blasphemies
sterilized
radiation
tailless cat
conventional breeding
telepathy
New Zealand
nuclear holocaust
radiation sickness

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