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This document was prepared with borrowed Blackmask Online etext for Arthur's Classic Novels. Etext was prepared by volunteers. XHTML markup by Arthur Wendover. April 15, 2005. (See source text for details.) This is the etext version of the book The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, taken from the original etext thechr.htm. Arthur's Classic Novels

John Wyndham, The Chrysalids. London: Penguin Books (no date given). John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids was one of the seminal books of my childhood. I first read it at about 10, and to this day I still read it every couple of months. There are passages I could probably recite from memory. What fascinated me about this book was partly the setting, and how comfortably it settled with New Zealand’s anti-nuclear policy – in The Chrysalids, the mutated survivors of nuclear war headed towards New Zealand as a relatively pristine haven from the resulting environmental and social catastrophe.

If anything, The Chrysalids represented possibility, and that possibility continues to define the book for me: the idea of sudden and drastic genetic change – how it may have occurred in the past, how we have the capability to bring it about today, why we retain that ability, knowing what it can do… and how we would cope with any possible results.

Re-Birth (The Chrysalids) was one of the first science fiction novels I read as a youth, and several times tempted me to take a piggy census. Returning to it now, more than 30 years later, I find that I remember vast parts of it with perfect clarityo…a book to kindle the joy of reading science fiction.— SciFi.com

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