Midwich

I might not have gone on to read (and love) Triffids and Kraken and Midwich Cuckoos and Web etc if I hadn't enjoyed Chysalids so much.

Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009

Village of the Damned was a good take on Midwich Cuckoos, but most of the rest of the adaptations would need modern SFX to work properly.

Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009

In Emmerdale, an outbreak of affairs saw everything go a bit Midwich Cuckolds.

World of Lather 2011

As the child, Jonathan Teale has a Midwich Cuckoos stare which frightens his schoolfriends, but perhaps he's just lonely; Mark Bazeley has the least interesting part as the good-works, selfish daddy swishing out of the house in his Palestinian scarf.

The Taming of the Shrew; The Trial of Ubu; Our New Girl – review 2012

I would rate The Midwich Cuckoos more highly than The Big Time, but it was probably too British to be considered by whatever mechanism the Worldcon was using that year.

April Books 5) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling nwhyte 2009

The opening moments call to mind Midwich Cuckoos, but the similarity ends there.

In a 2 lb bag : Bev Vincent 2009

And he was writing in the mid 20th century of things that are affecting us now – climate change (The Kraken Wakes), GM crops (The Day of the Triffids), genetic engineering (Midwich Cuckoos and possibly Chocky).

Me and Chick-Lit « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

It's interesting that astronomer Fred Hoyle's novel, published in 1957, is exactly contemporaneous with John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos.

The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle – review Nicholas Lezard 2010

And why Midwich should have been singled out in preference to any one of a thousand other villages for the curious event of the 26th of September seems likely to remain a mystery for ever.

Archive 2010-04-01 Blue Tyson 2010

History does not record what other works were in the frame, though other classic sf from 1957 which I have read includes The Door into Summer, The Black Cloud, Citizen of the Galaxy and The Midwich Cuckoos (and On the Beach is on my shelf, recently acquired but as yet unread).

April Books 5) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling nwhyte 2009