This novel is remarkable for introducing several ideas, and for setting new benchmarks for other speculative novels. Wyndham doesn’t bog himself down in the technical details of the end of society, instead he focuses on the human effects. Perhaps more telling, he allows his characters to muddle ...
Stop me if you've heard this one before. It's a shame we don't have some ham. (You're supposed to say "Why?")Well, because then if we had some eggs, we'd have ham and eggs! Gotcha.The Day of the Triffids is rather similar. It's lucky that scientists haven't used bioengineering to create a deadly but...
I was a great John Wyndham fan as a teenager.“It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.”
Day of the Triffids was this month's read in GoodReads' Apocalypse Whenever group, and it pleasantly surprised me. The premise is that most of the world goes blind after looking at comets in the sky and that the earth is overtaken by semi-intelligent carnivorous plants. Thus, I expected it to read m...
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