Web is a science fiction novel written by the English science fiction author John Wyndham. The novel was published by the estate of John Wyndham in 1979, ten years after his death.
The events depicted in Web are written from the viewpoint of Arnold Delgrange, a man suffering from what would now be described as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. They revolve around a failed attempt to establish a utopian colony on an island in the Pacific Ocean remot...
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Web is a science fiction novel written by the English science fiction author John Wyndham. The novel was published by the estate of John Wyndham in 1979, ten years after his death.
The events depicted in Web are written from the viewpoint of Arnold Delgrange, a man suffering from what would now be described as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. They revolve around a failed attempt to establish a utopian colony on an island in the Pacific Ocean remote from civilization, which has suffered fall out and been cursed by the original inhabitants. As a result, intelligent and communally acting spiders have evolved on the island, acting in a manner that endangers all life in the vicinity. As in most Wyndham novels, the key information concerning unfolding events is actually provided by a female character, Dr Camilla Cogent. It is Cogent who first realises that the spiders inhabiting the island chosen for the utopian experiment have evolved intelligence, it is her actions that allow Arnold...
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