Los trífidos son plantas grotescas y peligrosas, cultivadas originalmente por su valioso aceite. Mientras lo permiten las condiciones del mundo esas plantas son económicamente útiles. Pero un desastre universal y repentino destruye esas condiciones y los trífidos se transforman en una terrible y activa amenaza para el hombre.
An introduction and five early stories by this classic SF writer originally published in the 1930's under the name John Beynon Harris. The title story plus Derelict of Space, Child of Power, The Last Lunarians and The Puff-ball Menace.
David Strorm's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blasphemies against nature. Little does he realize that his own son, his niece Rosalind and their friends, have their own secret aberration which would label them as mutants. But as David and Rosalind grow older it becomes more difficult to conceal their differences from the village elders. Soon they face a choice- wait for eventual discovery or flee to the terrifying and mutable Badlands ... The Chrysalids is a post-nuclear story of genetic mutation in a devastated world, which tells of the lengths the intolerant will go to to keep themselves pure.
The study of men and masculinities incorporates some of the key debates in the social sciences today, particularly within cultural and media studies, and gender studies. This book explores the socio-historical and cultural formation, enactment and representation of masculinities in a range of sites. schovat popis
Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to himself. And, like many parents, they waited for him to get over it, but it started to get worse. Then Matthew started doing things he couldn't do before, like counting in binary-code mathematics. So he told them about Chocky - the person who lived in his head.
For the ten short stories collected here, John Wyndham turns his imagination to, among other subjects, body-snatching, time-travel and mind-travel, and the the tricky business of interplanetary colonization.
In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitants fall unconscious. A day later the object is gone and everyone awakens unharmed – except that all the women in the village are discovered to be pregnant.
The future as an Amazonian ant's-nest, a single-sex totalitarian nightmare...the curious consequences of an out-of-body experience...how Hollywood turned an Irish Rose into a plastic bloom...a scientific experiment that changes the course of history - or merely confirms it...the search for a love that is not just lost, but has never ever been...a Satanic salesman's struggles with a quick-witted mortal...
'Ingenious, horrifying' - Guardian It started with fireballs raining down from the sky and crashing into the oceans' deeps. Then ships began sinking mysteriously and later 'sea tanks' emerged from the deeps to claim people . . . For journalists Mike and Phyllis Watson, what at first appears to be a curiosity becomes a global calamity. Helpless, they watch as humanity struggles to survive now that water - one of the compounds upon which life depends - is turned against them. Finally, sea levels begin their inexorable rise . . . The Kraken Wakes is a brilliant novel of how humankind responds to the threat of its own extinction and, ultimately, asks what we are prepared to do in order to survive.
