![]() ![]() In Wyndam's classically elegant, calm style, this novel explores the arrival of a collective intelligence on earth that threatens to eliminate mankind. The nightmare that descends on Midwich has dire implications for the rest of the world whatever dwells there is sowing the seeds for a master race of ruthless and inhumane creatures who are bent on nothing less than absolute and total domination. ![]() Then, in ways that are difficult to pin down, the village seems changed-not quite the same place that it was before. The story begins with Richard and Janet Gayford who have spent the night of September 26 in London, returning to their home in Midwich the following day. John Wyndham's 1957 book The Midwich Cuckoos is better known by the more sensational title of its two film adaptations, Village of the Damned. Print The Midwich Cuckoos: Now a major Sky series starring Keeley Hawes and Max Beesley ![]()
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