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Chocky

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.

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  • "Een hogere intelligentie van een verre planeet komt naar de aarde om de mogelijkheden voor kolonisatie te onderzoeken, maar door gebrek aan ervaring manifesteert deze intelligentie zich in een kleine jongen waardoor allerlei complicaties ontstaan."
  • "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."@en
  • "A twelve-year-old boy, appearing to have intense conversations with himself, gradually admits to his parents and other adults that an intelligent being lives in his head."@en
  • "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. Who is Chocky? And what could it want with a 11-year-old boy?"@en
  • "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."
  • "In Chocky, pioneering science-fiction master John Wyndham takes on an enigma as strange as anything found in his classic works The Day of the Triffids or The Chrysalids--the mind of a child. It's not terribly unusual for a boy to have an imaginary friend, but Matthew's parents have to agree that his--nicknamed Chocky--is anything but ordinary. Why, Chocky demands to know, are there twenty-four hours in a day? Why are there two sexes? Why can't Matthew solve his math homework using a logical system like binary code? When the questions Chocky asks become too advanced and, frankly, too odd for Matthew's teachers to answer, his parents start to wonder if Chocky might be something far stranger than a figment of their son's imagination. Chocky, the last novel Wyndham published during his life, is a playful investigation of what being human is all about, delving into such matters as child-rearing, marriage, learning, artistic inspiration--and it ends with a surprising and impassioned plea for better human stewardship of the earth."
  • "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, makes Matthew ask difficult questions and say startling things. Then, when he does something incredible, it seems Cocky is more than imaginary. But who is Chocky? And what could it want with an eleven-year-old boy?"
  • "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, makes Matthew ask difficult questions and say startling things. Then, when he does something incredible, it seems Cocky is more than imaginary. But who is Chocky? And what could it want with an eleven-year-old boy?"@en
  • "Was he a reality, a dream or a nightmare?"@en

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  • "Fantastyka naukowa angielska"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Classical fiction"@en
  • "Juvenile works"
  • "Juvenile works"@en
  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Audiobooks"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Fiction"
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  • "Science fiction"
  • "Science fiction"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"

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  • "Chocky"@en
  • "Chocky"
  • "Chocky"@es
  • "Chocky [: a novel]"

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