The Day of the Triffids (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Pequeño saltamontes’s request to combine 54 books, including The Day of the Triffids, 6 days ago.

Pequeño saltamontes submitted a request to combine 54 books, including The Day of the Triffids, 7 days ago.

Shelfari edited the description of The Day of the Triffids 3 weeks ago.

• 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Day of the Triffids Wednesday, September 30 2009.

• Removed a contributor: John Wyndham: (Primary None)

Anthony Abbott edited the books like this book of The Day of the Triffids Saturday, September 26 2009.

• Added The Death of Grass

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Day of the Triffids Wednesday, September 16 2009.

• Added a contributor: John Wyndham: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: John Wyndham: (Primary None)

Timothy Gray approved AndrewTheLott’s request to change the title of The Day of the Triffids Friday, August 14 2009.

AndrewTheLott changed the title of The Day of the Triffids Thursday, August 13 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of The Day of the Triffids Friday, July 31 2009.

• 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.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Day of the Triffids Friday, July 17 2009.

• WHEN a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.