"The Chrysalids" by John Wyndham

Before the larvae of most insects become an adult, they remain in a protective state not moving or growing. In the novel "The Chrysalids", John Wyndham, the author, rephrases the definition of Chrysalid to describe the future of humanity. It is after a disaster destroying almost all of humanity forcing humans to start civilization from the beginning. Two surviving books develop a religion purging those who are deformed and putting themselves in a Chrysalid stage, living in a town called Waknuk. …