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“It’s something that’s been dramatized a number of times because it’s such a great story. Margaret Atwood spoke about how she read The Midwich Cuckoos when she was a student, and it freaked her out so badly she had dreams about these evil children for weeks. This story is about how the instinct of motherhood can be subverted by an alien intelligence. Obviously, a cuckoo lays eggs in another bird’s nest. This group of women all give birth to babies who apparently are physically normal, but who can control them, and communicate with each other, and who develop much more quickly than ordinary children. They clearly have their own end in view.” Read more...
Amy Binns, Biographer
