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Whereas Six accumulates apparatuses, a series of "Cuckoos" rigged to sluggish metronomes are presented without their clock armature, function, or punctual song (instead the metronome arms unmelodiously open and shut their beaks and wings).
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The Phoenix Force returns, but what part do the Stepford Cuckoos play in it all?
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And he was writing in the mid 20th century of things that are affecting us now – climate change (The Kraken Wakes), GM crops (The Day of the Triffids), genetic engineering (Midwich Cuckoos and possibly Chocky).
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As the child, Jonathan Teale has a Midwich Cuckoos stare which frightens his schoolfriends, but perhaps he's just lonely; Mark Bazeley has the least interesting part as the good-works, selfish daddy swishing out of the house in his Palestinian scarf.
The Taming of the Shrew; The Trial of Ubu; Our New Girl – review
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It's interesting that astronomer Fred Hoyle's novel, published in 1957, is exactly contemporaneous with John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos.
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Some suspicion of his domestic leanings can be gleaned from his presidency of a Immigrant Restriction Society, as good as a authorship of an essay called Shall We Let a Cuckoos Crowd Us From Our Nest.
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The opening moments call to mind Midwich Cuckoos, but the similarity ends there.
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History does not record what other works were in the frame, though other classic sf from 1957 which I have read includes The Door into Summer, The Black Cloud, Citizen of the Galaxy and The Midwich Cuckoos (and On the Beach is on my shelf, recently acquired but as yet unread).
April Books 5) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling
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Some suspicion of his domestic leanings can be gleaned from his presidency of a Immigrant Restriction Society, as good as a authorship of an essay called Shall We Let a Cuckoos Crowd Us From Our Nest.
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I would rate The Midwich Cuckoos more highly than The Big Time, but it was probably too British to be considered by whatever mechanism the Worldcon was using that year.
April Books 5) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling
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