Triffids

Bill Masen works with triffids - an animalistic plant with poisonous venom, a wicked stinger and the ability to move around on three 'legs'. Hospitalised when he succumb to triffid venom in a lab accident, Masen misses seeing a world-changing night - a quirk of fate may just save his life...Strongly influenced by H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, Wyndham's post-apocalyptic novel displays some similarities to Wells' seminal sci-fi work. Yet, it remains an enduring classic in its own right, bursting with imagination and startling inventiveness.

In John Wyndham's classic The Day of the Triffids the world is overwhelmed by killer plants. Simon Clark's sequel picks up the story 25 years on. Bill Masen's son, David, wakes to a world plunged into darkness. Now, the triffids have the advantage...