The Night of the Triffids
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4.3 • 13 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A sequel to John Wyndham's post-apocalyptic horror classic The Day of the Triffids: "An action-filled tale that captures the spirit of the original story" (Library Journal).
Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel
In The Day of the Triffids, Bill Masen escapes with his family to a colony on the Isle of Wight after a meteor shower blinds most of the human race and the deadly Triffid plants begin to take over the world.
Now the story continues, more than twenty-five years later, as pilot David Masen, Bill's son, travels in search of an effective weapon against the Triffids. In New York City, he discovers a group of people who appear to be immune to the Triffids' deadly poison. But all is not as it seems in this colony, and soon David must face a dangerous adversary from his family's past . . .
"Brisk and engaging . . . This crafty continuation is elegant in its construction . . . A truly enjoyable voyage." —Publishers Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids(1951), mankind is overtaken and much of it blinded by the demonic walking plant of the title, a monster created in a lab in an act of Cold War profiteering. Clark (Vampyrrhic, etc.) picks up the story more than 25 years later, puts a new narrator at the helm and spins a brisk and engaging adventure-cum-horror yarn. Clark's narrator is David Masen, son of scientist Bill Masen (the protagonist from Wyndham's book). The Masen family, along with a handful of other survivors, has set up an outpost on the Isle of Wight, and have gone about rebuilding society. A major part of this renewal involves a particularly bizarre idea called the Mother House, a convent-like home where women spend their lives giving birth over and over again. All seems well, until one morning when the sun doesn't rise and the triffids, long thought condemned to the mainland, attack. Clearly marketed as a genre horror title, this crafty continuation is elegant in its construction. Clark's prose is clean, thoughtful and perfectly suited to his faux doomsday-memoir approach. Less cautionary than the original, but more literary than many books of its ilk, this is a truly enjoyable voyage. FYI:In September 2002, Clark received two British Fantasy Awards one forThe Night of the Triffids and one for the short story "Goblin City Lights."
