The Triffids are a monstrous species of stinging plant; they walk, they talk, they dominate the world. The narrator of this superbly terrifying novel wakes up in hospital to find that, by missing the end of the world as he knew it, he has survived to witness a new world. But the new world that awaits him is fantastic, horrific... and thoroughly plausible. In "The Day of the Triffids" John Wyndham achieves a razor-edge balance between wry satire and stark tragedy. The story cuts deep into the imagination, leaving the reader shaken by its violent insights and intuitions. 'One of Great Britain's most serious and literate pioneers of intelligent science fiction... Wyndham always wrote well and imaginatively - Financial Times