by John Wyndham · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141185415
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«The Day of the Triffids» is the science fiction novel by John Wyndham published in Penguin Modern Classics, in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Bill Masen wakes in a hospital with bandaged eyes and discovers that a meteor shower has blinded almost all of humanity. The triffids, carnivorous plants that walk and devour human flesh, become a new threat. A 1951 novel about Cold War fears and biological experimentation.
First instalment of the Triffids series. Edition with an introduction by Barry Langford. Finalist for the International Fantasy Award in 1952.
For readers of classic science fiction, dystopias and post-apocalyptic fiction from the 1950s.
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was an English science fiction writer best known for his works published under the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. Some of his works were set in post-apocalyptic landscapes. His best known works include The Day of the Triffids (1951), filmed in 1962, and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), which was filmed in 1960 as Village of the Damned, in 1995 under the same title, and again in 2022 in Sky Max under its original title.
