The Chrysalids - Penguin Modern Classics Author:John Wyndham '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 abom... more »inations.« less