"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Wyndham chillingly anticipates bio-warfare and mass destruction, fifty years before their realization, in this prescient account of Cold War paranoia. With society in shambles, they are now poised to prey on humankind. After most people in the world are blinded by an apparent meteor shower, an aggressive species of plant starts killing people. 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. The Day of the Triffids is a British science fiction drama serial which was first aired by BBC Television in 1981. In The Day Of the Triffids, after most people in the world are blinded by a meteor shower, triffids tall venomous, carnivorous plants start killing the rest. The Day of the Triffids is a 1951 post-apocalyptic novel by the English science fiction author John Wyndham. 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.īut to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, one must survive the Triffids, strange plants that years before began appearing all over the world. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. 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."īill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen.
In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel "The Day of the Triffids to moderate acclaim. Spaceman is the director’s second feature film, the first one being 2008’s Downloading Nancy, and he is set to direct the upcoming sci-fi TV series, The Day of the Triffids.
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