Author: John Wyndham
Publisher: Fawcett Q2720
Year: 1976 Print: 1
Cover Price: $1.50
Condition: Very Good Plus. Small sticker pull front cover.
Genre: Science Fiction
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The Day of the Triffids is a post-apocalyptic novel about a plague of blindness which befalls the entire world, which allows for the rise of an aggressive species of plants, published in 1951 by the English science fiction author John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, under the pen-name John Wyndham. Although Wyndham had already published other novels using other pen-name combinations drawn from his lengthy real name, this was the first novel that was published under the John Wyndham pen-name. It established him as an important writer, and remains his best known novel. It has been made into one feature film (in 1962), three radio drama series (in 1957, 1968 and 2008), and two TV series (in 1981 and 2009). In 2003 the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read.