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Blurb: “Watch thou for the Mutant...."
Long ago, perhaps in the twentieth century, a terrible catastrophe had fallen upon the world. You could still see the blasted, charred cities and the Badlands where nothing grew at all.
But in the village where young David Strom lived, they were trying to rebuild the vanished civilization. It was a time of hard labor in the fields, and sharp terror in the night—when the hideous raiding parties came out of the Fringes country. All this was part of life.
But there were other things David could not under-stand.
... the freakish plants and animals that sprang unpredictably from sound stock.
... the babies that were born, and then never seen
or mentioned again.
.. the law that said a Mutant was an abomination a thing to be hunted down and killed.
David tried hard to believe this, but he could not.
... Then one day he discovered that he too was a mutant outcast, that there were others Rosalind and Mark, Petra and Anne-who shared this fearful heritage and that their forbidden powers might mean a re irth for mankind.
JOHN WYNDHAM, author of those two realistic nightmares of disaster, OUT OF THE DEEPS and THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, has written, in Re-BIRTH, his most mature novel triumphant assertion of the further potentiality of Man.