The midwich cuckoos

b>A genre-defining tale of first contact by one of the twentieth century's most brilliant--and neglected--science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called "the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced."br>;/b>br>br>What if the women of a sleepy English village all became mysteriously and simultaneously pregnant--and the children, once born, possessed supernatural (and possibly alien) powers?br>br>;;;;A mysterious silver object appears in the sleepy English village of Midwich, and all the inhabitants fall unconscious. A day later the object is gone and everyone wakes up unharmed--except that all the women in the village are now pregnant.br>br>;;;;;The resultant children of Midwich are blond, possess golden eyes, grow at an abnormally fast pace, and exhibit telekinetic abilities: they are shockingly, frighteningly Other. As their powers bring them into conflict with the villagers, news of other eerie, golden-eyed children in Russia and China reaches Midwich. Faced with the unknowable--and potentially unstoppable--threat of these children, the question arises: What will humanity do when faced with the threat of the unknown?