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- Space invaders remain a common theme to this day. In skimming though the last century, it's
- impossible not to stop at John Wyndham's rather cosy invasions, which are probably all the more
- effective because of their attack on middle England. Day of the Triffids is the best known, with
- its unlikely mobile killer plants and a blinded humanity, but more effective is the Midwich
- Cuckoos , where the invasion takes place in the much more subtle context of alien impregnation
- of the women of a village. The golden-eyed children who result are treated with as much
- conspiratorial secrecy as anything in the X Files.
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