Cuckoos

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).

artforum.com 2010

The Phoenix Force returns, but what part do the Stepford Cuckoos play in it all?

Top Cow Productions Releases Exclusive Marvel Variants | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

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).

Me and Chick-Lit « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

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 2012

It's interesting that astronomer Fred Hoyle's novel, published in 1957, is exactly contemporaneous with John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos.

The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle – review Nicholas Lezard 2010

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.

Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009

The opening moments call to mind Midwich Cuckoos, but the similarity ends there.

In a 2 lb bag : Bev Vincent 2009

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 nwhyte 2009

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.

Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

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 nwhyte 2009