The Day Of The Triffids

Author(s): John Wyndham

Classics

In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel <i>The Day of the Triffids</i> to moderate acclaim.  Nearly seventy years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by <i>The Times</i> (London) as having “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.”


Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave the city, aware that the safe, familiar world they knew a mere twenty-four hours before is gone forever.


But to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, one must survive the Triffids, strange plants that years before began appearing all over the world.  The Triffids can grow to over seven feet tall, pull their roots from the ground to walk, and kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous stingers. With society in shambles, they are now poised to prey on humankind. Wyndham chillingly anticipates bio-warfare and mass destruction, fifty years before their realization, in this prescient account of Cold War paranoia.


Product Information

John Wyndham was born in 1903. After a wide experience of the English preparatory school he was at Bedales from 1918 to 1921. Careers which he tried included farming, law, commercial art, and advertising, and he first started writing short stories, intended for sale, in 1925. During the war he was in the Civil Service and afterwards in the Army. In 1946 he began writing his major science fiction novels including "The Kraken Wakes", "The Chrysalids" and "The Midwich Cuckoos".

General Fields

  • : 9780141185415
  • : penguin
  • : penguin
  • : 0.194
  • : February 2001
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 15mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : John Wyndham
  • : John Wyndham
  • : FLC
  • : FLC
  • : 256
  • : 256
  • : very good
  • : very good
  • : 823.912
  • : 823.912
  • : en
  • : en
  • : 1
  • : 1
  • : Paperback
  • : Paperback