Ideas from Outside the Mind

Reviewing Two John Wyndham Sci-Fi Classics, ‘The Chrysalids’ and ‘Chocky’

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…