John Wyndham

Crisalidele este un roman science fiction scris de John Wyndham. Este cea mai diferită dintre romanele majore a lui Wyndham, fiind considerată de unii cea mai bună operă a sa. O variantă de început a titlului a fost Time for a Change. Romanul a fost adaptat radiofonic pentru BBC de Barbara Clegg în 1982 și pentru …

I became aware that there was a force: that I was being moved, and that spacelessness had, therefore, ceased, too.

At first they thought that Matthew was just goining through a phase of talking to himself. And like many parents, they waited for him to grow out of it. But as time passed it became worse, not better. Matthew's conversations with himself grew more and more intense. It was like listening to one end of a telephone …