In a 1960 television interview—a rare public appearance from this most private of writers—John Wyndham shared an lesson gleaned from his many years of writing science fiction: “Your English reader ...
With this premise, involving elements of high-concept sci-fi and body horror, it’s natural that adaptations have tended to err on the side of scary. The Midwich brood, it turns out, aren’t quite ...
John Wyndham's sci-fi masterpiece, first published in 1957, is the tale of an English village where the women are simultaneously impregnated by parasitic aliens.