These strange, ambulatory, and carnivorous plants had once been just botanial curiosities as they lumbered about. For the spectaculor green meteor shower that he couldn't see has left the population blind, helpless, and at the mercy of the triffids. When Bill Masen wakes up in his hospital bed, he has reason to be grateful for the bandages that covered his eyes the night before. John Wyndham's classic tale of ecological catastrophe and survival has the same power and resonance today as it did fifty years ago, and the book is now celebrated as the first, and definitive, great disaster novel. It was this novel which established him as an important writer, and remains his best known. Although Wyndham had already written other novels, this was the first that he had written under this name and it appeared to be by a new author. The Day of the Triffids is a post-apocalyptic novel written in 1951 by the English science fiction author John Wyndham.
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