Book description
Matthew's parents are worried. At eleven, he's much too old to have
an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a
presence that even he admits is not physically there. This presence -
Chocky - causes Matthew to ask difficult questions and say startling
things: he speaks of complex mathematics and mocks human progress.
Then, when Matthew does something incredible, it seems there is more
than the imaginary about Chocky. Which is when others become
interested and ask questions of their own: who is Chocky? And what
could it want with an eleven-year-old boy?
A story of innocence and alien contact, Chocky is a sinister
tale of manipulation and experimentation from afar.
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Benyon Harris was born in 1903. He tried a
number of careers including farming, law, commercial art and
advertising, and started writing short stories in 1925. From 1930 to
1939 he wrote stories under different names, almost exclusively for
American publications, while also writing detective novels. During the
war he was in the Civil Service and then the Army. In 1946 he went back
to writing stories and decided to try a modified form of science
fiction, a form he called 'logical fantasy'. He died in March 1969.
