Writing as the Nazis first rose to power and later as the Cold War raged, British sci-fi writer John Wyndham could be forgiven his fixation on the catastrophic and apocalyptic. Last year I reviewed The Day of the Triffids (1951), along with several others, including The Kraken Wakes (1953) and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), all of which exemplify the fasci…
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