Hansen, Solveig Lena http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3288-5272
Funding for this research was provided by:
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Article History
Accepted: 16 February 2021
First Online: 4 September 2021
Change Date: 26 February 2022
Change Type: Update
Change Details: The original version of this paper was updated to add the missing compact agreement Open Access funding note.
Endnotes
: <sup>1</sup> His full name was John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris. When writing fiction, he chose to be referred to only as John Wyndham after WWII. For an analysis on John Beynon Harris’ pseudonym within the context of differences between British and US-American science fiction, see Sweet (2018).<sup>2</sup> The story about carnivorous, mobile, and very aggressive plants, which arrived on Earth as spores from a meteor shower, was made into the 1962 feature film of the same name, three radio drama series (in 1957, 1968 and 2001) and two TV series (in 1981 and 2009).<sup>3</sup> In the following, I will abbreviate the novel as MC and quote directly from it in the text.<sup>4</sup> On the history of abortion in before the enactment of the Abortion Act in 1967, see Brooks (1988).<sup>5</sup> The most famous prequel is Aldous Huxley’s ([1932] 1985) <i>Brave New World</i> and the most famous sequel probably is Naomi Mitchisons <i>Solution Three</i> ([1975] 1995). For a full analysis of <i>The Midwich Cuckoos</i> in the history of cloning, see Hansen (2016).<sup>6</sup> According to Ketterer (2009), it was written during the same time as <i>The Day of the Triffids </i>(which was published in 1951) and completed shortly after.<sup>7</sup> For the discussion of classical examples, such as the first version of the so-called trolley experiment, cf. Foot (1967).