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• ‘One of those books that haunts you for the rest of your life’ THE SUNDAY TIMES • ‘A spine-tingling yarn that science fiction fans should not miss’ BOSTON HERALD • One of TIME MAGAZINE’S ‘Top 10 Post-Apocalyptic Books’ When Bill Masen wakes up in his hospital bed, he has reason to be grateful for the bandages that covered his eyes the night before. For what he finds is a population rendered helpless, blinded by the bright green lights that filled the night sky; a population now at the mercy of the Triffids. Fantastic, frightening, but entirely plausible, John Wyndham’s bestselling story of a world dominated by monstrous, stinging and carnivorous plants captures the imagination like no other apocalyptic vision. ABOUT THE AUTHOR John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was born in the West Midlands in July 1903. He became Britain best-selling science fiction author as ‘John Wyndham’ in the 1950s with THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS and six more highly successful novels would follow, including THE KRAKEN WAKES (‘Ingenious, horrifying & well told’ THE GUARDIAN), THE CHRYSALIDS (‘Will be well noted and long remembered’ THE NEW YORK TIMES), and THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS in 1957 (‘Exiting, unsettling & technically brilliant’ THE SPECTATOR). He died in 1969. PRAISE FOR ‘THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS’ ‘Has captivated readers for over half a century’ THE GUARDIAN ‘All the reality of a vividly realized nightmare’ THE TIMES ‘An immortal story’ ARTHUR C. CLARKE ‘An engrossing addition to science fiction’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘Most intelligent and readable’ NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE ‘One of the genuine classics of imaginative fiction’ SCIENCE FICTION ENCYCLOPAEDIA ‘Recalled the great days of H.G. Wells’ THE OBSERVER ‘Most terrifying’ LIBRARY JOURNAL