Les Chrysalides

by John Wyndham, E.C.L. Meistermann (Translator), Hubert Minos (Translator)

Dans un lointain futur, un conflit nucléaire a détruit la civilisation et rendu une grande partie des terres inhabitables. Aujourd’hui réduite à une population rurale tournée vers la religion, l’humanité craint les mutations et cherche à les détruire. David en a bien conscience : ce jeune télépathe sait que sa survie dépend de l’ignorance de la communauté sur sa nature réelle…

250 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 17, 2025

About the author

John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was the son of a barrister. After trying a number of careers, including farming, law, commercial art and advertising, he started writing short stories in 1925. After serving in the civil Service and the Army during the war, he went back to writing. Adopting the name John Wyndham, he started writing a form of science fiction that he called 'logical fantasy'. As well as The Day of the Triffids, he wrote The Kraken Wakes, The Chrysalids, The Midwich Cuckoos (filmed as Village of the Damned) and The Seeds of Time.