The Day of the Triffids

Name: The Day of the Triffids
Author: John Wyndham

John Wyndham · 1951

Bill Masen, a biologist who works with triffids, wakes in a London hospital with bandaged eyes the morning after a green meteor shower. Nearly everyone who watched it has gone blind, and the triffids, carnivorous plants that walk and sting, are loose. Brian Aldiss singled it out as an example of what he called the cosy catastrophe.

The case against

on the women
“The one thing that really dated it for me was the portrayal of the women.”
a science fiction forum
on the triffids’ absence
“they don’t feature very much until Bill is living in the countryside”
a book blog
on chapter two
“He goes into quite a convoluted, cloak-and-dagger story about a dodgy middleman”
a book blog
on Bill’s luck
“The book’s major issue is a common one: our main character simply is too lucky.”
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