In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffids to moderateacclaim. Fiftytwo years later this horrifying story is a science fictionclassic tout... » 

In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffids to moderateacclaim. Fiftytwo years later this horrifying story is a science fictionclassic touted by The Times London as having all the reality of a vividlyrealized nightmare. Bill Masen bandages over his wounded eyes misses themost spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandagesthe next morning he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. Hesoon meets Josella another lucky person who has retained her sight andtogether they leave the city aware that the safe familiar world they knew amere twentyfour hours before is gone forever. But to survive in this postapocalyptic world one must survive the Triffids strange plants that yearsbefore began appearing all over the world. The Triffids can grow to over sevenfeet tall pull their roots from the ground to walk and kill a man with onequick lash of their poisonous stingers. With society in shambles they are nowpoised to prey on humankind. Wyndham chillingly anticipates biowarfare andmass destruction fifty years before their realization in this prescientaccount of Cold War paranoia. «