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About the product The novel, which most critics rightly call the best work of John Wyndham. The book, which made a deafening impression on fans of science fiction in the USSR; many seriously believed that the novel was written by the Strugatsky brothers. Moreover, a curious samizdat «translation» called «Christ people», in which quotations, borrowings and references to the works of the Strugatskys were inserted into Wyndham’s text, were circulating around. One of the best dystopian works of SF of the XX century! «Deviation from the norm» has no place in the villages of the new Puritans — the descendants of the few who survived the nuclear catastrophe that befell mankind. Baby animals that show the slightest signs of mutation are destroyed. Human babies are treated «more mercifully» — they are simply sterilized and thrown out into the wild jungle, at the mercy of other wild mutants living there. But can all the «deviations» be recognized by the ruthless judge-preachers and their fanatical flock? Children with a powerful paranormal gift are growing up unnoticed for them …
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