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Original Title:	The Day of the Triffids
ISBN:	0812967127 (ISBN13: 9780812967128)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Triffids #1
Characters:	Bill Masen, Josella Playton
Setting:	London, England United Kingdom
Literary Awards:	International Fantasy Award Nominee for Fiction (1952)

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In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffids to moderate acclaim. 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.”

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.

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Title	:	The Day of the Triffids (Triffids #1)
Author	:	John Wyndham
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 228 pages
Published	:	July 1st 2003 by Modern Library (first published 1951)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Classics. Horror. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic

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I have a long fondness for Apocalyptic novels. The Stand was one of my early favorites from junior high school, and I really enjoyed its cousin by Robert McCammon, Swan Song. There's something about the End Of The World that just grabs me and won't let go. Maybe it's the thought that, should the world end, I would be one of the survivors. The rule of law would break down, all shackles of modern life would be loosed, and I would finally be free to choose my own destiny. Which, knowing me, would

This 1951 novel was written when nuclear war and the potential end of civilisation as it was known was a more immediate concern than it mostly is today. Early in the book there is an oblique reference to Lysenko and the Soviet Union - which helps to date it to that post war period. Truly Wyndham's concern is not with the potential end of civilisation itself, but really with what comes next.Destruction then, whether by bomb or plant, isn't the point of this book. It becomes a device to get to the

Stop me if you've heard this one before. It's a shame we don't have some ham. (You're supposed to say "Why?")Well, because then if we had some eggs, we'd have ham and eggs! Gotcha.The Day of the Triffids is rather similar. It's lucky that scientists haven't used bioengineering to create a deadly but slow-moving carnivorous plant. Because then if a mysterious comet caused everyone to go blind overnight, we'd all be sitting ducks!It's not quite as bad as I'm making out. Admittedly, on a scale of

One of the reasons scifi gets a bad rap is that so much of it is so very shitty, and here's a prime example. There was a major strain of woman-hating, mansplaining, faux-intellectual, oft-Randian bullshit that sprang up in the latter 20th century, spearheaded by the idiot propaganda of Robert Heinlein and Ray Bradbury; this miserable 1951 book was a harbinger.The setup is standard scifi: human overreaching leads to a holocaust. In this case the overreach takes the shape of mass blindness - like



A classic.Sometimes classic is good. Sometimes classic is interesting. And sometimes, it's classic just because it was first, not best. For me, Triffids is a classic in the last sense, as one of the first novels in an era exploring the end of civilization. Colored by recent events of World War II, many writers in the 50s focused on nuclear holocaust. Wyndham went a slightly different direction, forseeing genetic manipulation and biological warfare. While his vision interested me, the didactic

Really enjoyed this post-apocalyptic tale which I wasn't expecting to like so much. It didn't really sound as dated as some other books of the time and was quite humorous in places. What a great opening line too!