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He has acted as a teacher of and mentor to the Children and they regard him with as much affection as they can have for any human, permitting him to approach them more closely than others. As he has only a few weeks left to live due to a heart condition, he feels obliged to do something. They demand aeroplanes from the government.Īn elderly, educated, Midwich resident (Gordon Zellaby) realises the Children must be killed as soon as possible. The Children present an ultimatum, they want to migrate to a secure location where they can live unharmed. They explain it is not possible to kill them unless the entire village is bombed, which would result in civilian deaths. During an interview with a Military Intelligence officer, the Children explain that to solve the problem they must be destroyed. The Children are aware of the danger and use their power to prevent aeroplanes from flying over the village. The Russian town was recently 'accidentally' destroyed by the Soviet government, using an ' atomic cannon' from a range of 50–60 mi (80–97 km). The Australian babies had all died within a few weeks, suggesting that something may have gone wrong with the xenogenesis process. The Inuit killed the newborn Children, sensing they were not their own and the Mongolians killed both Children and mothers. The Military Intelligence department learns that the same phenomenon has occurred in four other parts of the world, including an Inuit settlement in the Canadian Arctic, a small township in Australia's Northern Territory, a Mongolian village and the town of Gizhinsk in eastern Russia, north-east of Okhotsk. The villagers form a mob and try to burn down the Midwich Grange (a farm where the Children are taught and live) but the Children make the villagers attack each other. A bull that chased the Children is forced into a pond to drown.

One young man who accidentally hits a Child in the hip while driving a car is made to drive into a wall and kill himself. The Children protect themselves as much as possible using a form of mind control. Their physical development is accelerated compared with that of humans upon reaching the age of nine, they appear to be sixteen-year-olds. The Children (they are referred to with a capital C) have two distinct group minds, one for the boys and another for the girls. They possess telepathic abilities and can control others' actions. As they grow up, it becomes increasingly apparent that they are, at least in some respects, not human.

The children have none of the genetic characteristics of their mothers.

When the 31 boys and 30 girls are born, they appear normal, except for their unusual golden eyes, light blonde hair and pale, silvery skin. Some months later they realise that every woman of child-bearing age is pregnant with all indications that the pregnancies were caused by xenogenesis during the period of unconsciousness that has come to be referred to as the 'Dayout'. Aerial photography shows an unidentifiable silvery object on the ground in the centre of the affected zone.Īfter one day, the effect vanishes, along with the unidentified object and the villagers wake with no apparent ill effects. Further experiments reveal the region to be a hemisphere with a diameter of 2 mi (3.2 km) around the village. They discover that a caged canary becomes unconscious upon entering the affected region, but regains consciousness when removed. Suspecting gas poisoning, the army is notified. Attempting to approach the village, one ambulance-man becomes unconscious.

#Damned tv show wiki series

The book has been praised by many critics, including the dramatist Dan Rebellato, who called it 'a searching novel of moral ambiguities,' and the novelist Margaret Atwood, who called the book Wyndham's ' chef d'oeuvre.' The book has been adapted into several media, such as film (twice as Village of the Damned, in 19), radio (1982, 2003, and 2017), and a TV series ( 2022).Īmbulances arrive at two traffic accidents blocking the only roads into the English village of Midwich, Winshire. It tells the tale of an English village in which the women become pregnant by brood parasitic aliens. The Midwich Cuckoos is a 1957 science fiction novel written by the English author John Wyndham.