Books like The Midwich Cuckoos
12 books with a reading profile close to The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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I Am Legend and Other Stories
horror, science fiction
Robert Neville is the last living human in a world overrun by nocturnal, bloodthirsty creatures.
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Rocannon’s World
science fiction, classic literature
Rocannon, an ethnologist for the League of All Worlds, becomes stranded on a primitive planet when a rebel faction destroys his survey ship.
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I Am Legend
horror, science fiction
Robert Neville is the final human survivor in a Los Angeles populated by nocturnal, vampiric creatures.
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Planet of the Apes
science fiction, classic literature
Journalist Ulysse Mérou travels to the star Betelgeuse with a small crew and lands on a world where the biological roles of primates and humans are reversed.
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Earth Abides
science fiction, classic literature
Isherwood Williams emerges from the California mountains to find a swift-moving plague has decimated the human population.
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The Chrysalids
by John Wyndham
science fiction, classic literature
Set in the post-apocalyptic settlement of Waknuk, the story follows David Strorm, a boy raised in a rigid fundamentalist society that pathologically fears genetic mutation.
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The End of Eternity
by Isaac Asimov
science fiction, classic literature
Andrew Harlan serves as a Technician within Eternity, an organization existing outside conventional time that monitors and adjusts human history to minimize suffering.
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The Invisible Man
by Len Jenkin, Herbert George Wells
science fiction, classic literature
In this stage adaptation of the H.G.
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The Monk
horror, classic literature
Ambrosio is the most admired monk in Madrid, a preacher respected for his holiness.
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The Minority Report
science fiction, classic literature
John Anderton, the architect of the Precrime system, manages a future where three mutants called precogs visualize murders before they happen.
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The Currents of Space
by Isaac Asimov
science fiction, classic literature
Technical analyst Rikare has forgotten his identity after a mental wipe, leaving him a confused laborer on the planet Florina.
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