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Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can see: everyone else, doctors and patients alike, have been blinded by a meteor shower. Wyndham chillingly anticipates bio-warfare and mass destruction, fifty years before their realization, in this prescient account of Cold War paranoia. New Book Bundle book The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. With society in shambles, they are now poised to prey on humankind. 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. 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.īut to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, one must survive the Triffids, strange plants that years before began appearing all over the world. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. Fifty-two years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by "The Times (London) as having "all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare."īill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. However, with its terrifyingly believable insights into the genetic modification of plants, the book is more relevant today than ever before. The story of what happens is told here by one of the few people lucky enough to escape the disaster:- (original cost 2'6).In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel "The Day of the Triffids to moderate acclaim. The Day of the Triffids, published in 1951, expresses many of the political concerns of its time: the Cold War, the fear of biological experimentation and the man-made apocalypse. But when a sudden universal disaster turns those conditions upside down, then the triffids, seizing their opportunity, become an active and dreadful menace. So long as conditions give the mastery to their human directors, they are a valuable asset to mankind. The triffids are grotesque and dangerous plants, over seven feet tall, originally cultivated for their yield of high-grade oil. Not only does he make his story seem scientifically possible, but the characters he creates are living people shaken out of the civilization they know into the horror of a world dominated by triffids. It is fantastic, frightening, but entirely plausible for John Wyndham combines an extraordinarily inventive imagination with the technical skill of a first-class writer. Penguin Books #993:- Synopsis: 'The Day Of The Triffids' is one of the very few books of its kind that can stand comparison with 'The War Of The Worlds', 'The Time Machine', and the other astonishing science-novels of H G Wells. © 1951: A stand-alone novel by John Wyndham.
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