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The Day of the Triffids

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by John Wyndham
Paperback
Publication Date: 18/08/2008
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Vibrant reissue of five of John Wyndham's most famous novels

When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth's population blind, Bill Masen is one of the lucky few to retain his sight. The London he walks is crammed with groups of men and women needing help, some ready to prey on those who can still see. But another menace stalks blind and sighted alike. With nobody to stop their spread the Triffids, mobile plants with lethal stingers and carnivorous appetites, seem set to take control.

The Day of the Triffids is perhaps the most famous catastrophe novel of the twentieth century and its startling imagery of desolate streets and lurching, lethal plant life retains its power to haunt today.
ISBN:
9780141033006
9780141033006
Category:
Science fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
18-08-2008
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
196x128x22mm
Weight:
0.2kg
John Wyndham

John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Benyon Harris was born in 1903, the son of a barrister. He tried a number of careers including farming, law, commercial art and advertising, and started writing short stories, intended for sale, in 1925.

From 1930 to 1939 he wrote short stories of various kinds under different names, almost exclusively for American publications, while also writing detective novels.

During the war he was in the Civil Service and then the Army. In 1946 he went back to writing stories for publication in the USA and decided to try a modified form of science fiction, a form he called 'logical fantasy'. John Wyndham died in March 1969.

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A great thought experiment in what happens when suspected satellite weapons leave the majority of the world blind. When faces with the task of rebuilding civilization, those who can see must make drastic decisions on how to do and how to deal with all those who cannot see. John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids has not lost its shine and still remains very readable after over 50 years of aging. You’ll be sorry for passing this one.

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I don't normally like science fiction but i love John Wyndham. The Triffids sound not very scary but somehow the build up works.
This is a classic title that everyone should read. Especially since all the film adaptions are terrible and can't capture the feeling of terror.
If you read one John Wyndham title it should be this one.

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Before there was The Walking Dead, Shaun of the Dead, The Passage and the myriad of other zombie and apocalyptic books and films, there was John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids. After a meteor shower which blinds the majority of the population, biologist Bill Masen finds himself to be one of the few advantaged people to have retained his sight. Another great advantage is his sound knowledge of triffids- he knows they are intelligent and capable of communicating with one another, and as everyone is slowly learning, that they are carnivorous too.

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