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The Day of the Triffids

The Day of the Triffids

by JohnWyndham (Author)

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    Paperback 2009

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 272
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 17 Dec 2009
ISBN 10: 0141043555
ISBN 13: 9780141043555

Media Reviews
A thoroughly English apocalypse, it rivals H. G. Wells in conveying how the everyday invaded by the alien would feel. No wonder Stephen King admires Wyndham so much.
--RAMSEY CAMPBELL

John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids is one of my all-time favorite novels. It's absolutely convincing, full of little telling details, and that sweet, warm sensation of horror and mystery.
--JOE R. LANSDALE

My son's middle name is Wyndham. Does that tell you how much I respect and revere the late John Wyndham? And The Day of the Triffids is the best of them all. He was a wonderful writer who was able to reinvigorate science fiction with spectacle and true thrills, and do so with a writing voice that created both suspense and elegance. A true master.
--ED GORMAN

Author Bio
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Benyon Harris was born in 1903. 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, 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 and decided to try a modified form of science fiction, a form he called 'logical fantasy'. John Wyndham died in March 1969.