The Day of the Triffids

Zusatztext "A thoroughly English apocalypse! it rivals H. G. Wells in conveying how the everyday invaded by the alien would feel. No wonder Stephen King admires Wyndham so much." --RAMSEY CAMPBELL "John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids is one of my all-time favorite novels. It's absolutely convincing! full of little telling details! and that sweet! warm sensation of horror and mystery." --JOE R. LANSDALE "My son's middle name is Wyndham. Does that tell you how much I respect and revere the late John Wyndham? And The Day of the Triffids is the best of them all. He was a wonderful writer who was able to reinvigorate science fiction with spectacle and true thrills! and do so with a writing voice that created both suspense and elegance. A true master." --ED GORMAN Informationen zum Autor John Wyndham (1903–1969) was a successful English author who wrote novels and short stories from the 1950s to the ’70s, focusing on science fiction and creating many classics still popular today, including Out of the Deep . Edmund Morris won a Pulitzer Prize for The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt , the first in a trilogy, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for the sequel, Theodore Rex , both available as Modern Library Paperbacks. He lives in New York. Klappentext 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. The End Begins When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere. I felt that from the moment I woke. And yet, when I started functioning a little more smartly, I became doubtful. After all, the odds were that it was I who was wrong, and not everyone else—though I did not see how that could be. I went on waiting, tinged with doubt. But presently I had my first bit of objective evidence—a distant clock struck what sounded to me just like eight. I listened hard and suspiciously. Soon another clock began, on a hard, decisive note. In a leisurely fashion it gave an indisputable eight. Then I knew things were awry. The way I came to miss the end of the world—well, the end of the world I had known for close on thirty years—was sheer accident: like a lot of survival, when you come to think of it. In the nature of things a good many somebodies are always in hospital, and the law of averages had picked on me to be one of them a week or so before. It might just as easily have been the week before that—in which case I’d not be writing now: I’d not be here at all. But chance played it not only that I should be in hospital at that particular time, but that my eyes, and indeed my whole head, should be wreathed in bandages—and that’s why I have to be grateful to whoever orders these averages. At the time, however, ...

Product details

• Authors: John Wyndham
• Publisher: Modern Library PRH US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.07.2003
• EAN: 9780812967128
• ISBN: 978-0-8129-6712-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy