The Day of the Triffids

The influential masterpiece of one of the twentieth centurys most brilliantand neglectedscience fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.[Wyndham] avoids easy allegories and instead questions the relative values of the civilisation that has been lost, the literally blind terror of humanity in the face of dominant nature. . . . Frightening and powerful, Wyndhams vision remains an important allegory and a gripping story.The Guardian What if a meteor shower left most of the world blindand humanity at the mercy of mysterious carnivorous plants?Bill Masen undergoes eye surgery and awakes the next morning in his hospital bed to find civilization collapsing. Wandering the city, he quickly realizes that surviving in this strange new world requires evading strangers and the...