Series
Chocky
John Wyndham & Mark Daniel · 2 novels · 1968–1986
Chocky (1968) is John Wyndham's science fiction novel about an eleven-year-old boy, Matthew, whose parents grow alarmed by his conversations with an unseen presence that feeds him unsettling insights into mathematics and human progress, building toward the reveal of what, or who, Chocky really is. Mark Daniel's Chocky's Challenge (1986), published after Wyndham's death, is an authorized continuation that carries the story forward.
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Chocky at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 1960s1
- 1970s0
- 1980s1
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Mood
Grim and calm: 50% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 2 works carry a tone
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- Chocky's Challengedarkest · most intense
- Chockybrightest · calmest