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The island of Tanakuatua seems like heaven to the 40 people who go there in order to create a utopian society, but soon they start to die in a horrible way and it seems that something strange and deadly is out there in the jungle.

36:T4b2, This was John Wyndham's last novel, but it was one of the first I bought, fourteen years ago. I had already read "The Day of the Triffids" and "Chocky". This novel was published ten years after Wyndham's death in 1969.The story is about an island called Tanakuatua, where a millionaire plans to build a community. The narrator, who lost his wife and daughter in a car accident, volunteers for a position as one of the "pioneers". Little do the settlers realize the island is inhabited by swarms of intelligent, deadly spiders. Radiation from nuclear tests gave the spiders' evolution a bit of a push.I have a feeling Wyndham had quite a fascination with spiders. In one of his early short stories ("More Spinned Against") a man who collects spiders meets a rather grisly fate. In another of