The Chrysalids

This is a golden age Sci Fi story by the man who wrote "The Day of the Triffids." I never read that book but the movie scared me as kid. So when my book club selected this, I was excited. I wasn't disappointed. This book was riveting for being seventy years old. It had an immediacy that sucked me in quickly and never really let me go. As many books are from that time period, it's a post-nuclear war tale of mutations and survival. Here, anyone who doesn't have traditional body parts is a deviant in the eyes of God and must be exterminated: humans through forced sterilization or murder and crops and livestock through burning. But when a new variation appears in the form of telepathy, a new threat arises that must be exterminated.

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