Civilization quickly collapses, people die, diseases run rampant, and a weird walking plant starts attacking people and eating them. Eventually he takes off his bandages and he can see, but he discovers most everyone else is blind. First, our hero Bill Masen wakes up in the hospital with his eyes bandaged recovering from surgery, but no one comes to help him that morning and he hears all kinds of weird noises that worry him. John Wyndham adds a couple of twists that make The Day of the Triffids more dramatic. The Day of the Triffids is a popular novel because the subject has wide appeal: What if you wake up and everyone else is dead? My favorite of this sub-category of science fiction is Earth Abides by George R. The Day of the Triffids is a classic that has been filmed once, made into two television mini-series, been adapted to radio twice, and has another movie version in the planning.
The Day of the Triffids is not stupid, and the mature me loves it, but how many SF novels have been about killer plants? Memory is so unreliable.
I used to read SF paperbacks like eating popcorn, and I remember reading a stupid book about plants killing off people. I’m not sure I read The Day of the Triffids before, but I have vague memories that I might, but nothing distinctive. Many people consider it one of their all-time favorite novels and relate memories of first discovering the book as a kid. This month, my book club is reading The Day of the Triffids, the 1951 novel by John Wyndham and the response is overwhelmingly enthusiastic.
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