Chocky

ISBN-13: 9780141191492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 160 str.

John Wyndham

Opis

Polly had Piff, who, with her empty seat at the dining table, was a typical invisible childhood friend. But Matthew has Chocky, and Chocky seems to be well versed in higher mathematics and can offer a coherent account of how a spacecraft works.

O autorze

John Wyndham was born in 1903 in the Midlands. After leaving school, he tried his hand at several careers, including farming, law and advertising, before starting to write stories in 1925. During the war he worked as a censor in the Ministry of Information and afterwards served in the Army. The Day of The Triffids was published in 1951, and was followed by many other famous works of science fiction, including The Kraken Wakes, The Chrysalids and The Midwich Cuckoos. Wyndham died in 1969.