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The Day Of The Triffids (SF Masterworks) (1951 original; edició 1961)

de John Wyndham (Autor), Dw Gary Viskupic (Il·lustrador)

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7,4172071,217 (3.98)4 / 611
"Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave the city, aware that the safe, familiar world they knew a mere twenty-four hours before is gone forever." "But to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, one must survive the Triffids, strange plants that years before began appearing all over the world. The Triffids can grow to over seven feet tall, pull their roots from the ground to walk, and kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous stingers. With society in shambles, they are now posed to prey on humankind. Wyndham chillingly anticipates bio-warfare and mass destruction, fifty years before their realization, in this prescient account of Cold War paranoia."--BOOK JACKET.… (més)
Membre:iansales
Títol:The Day Of The Triffids (SF Masterworks)
Autors:John Wyndham (Autor)
Altres autors:Dw Gary Viskupic (Il·lustrador)
Informació:Doubleday (1961), Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Col·leccions:Kindle, storage, La teva biblioteca
Valoració:**
Etiquetes:novel, science fiction, reprint, hardback, series yellow sf masterwork, box 10, read on kindle

Informació de l'obra

El dia dels trífids de John Wyndham (1951)

  1. 101
    La guerra de los mundos de H. G. Wells (clif_hiker)
  2. 92
    Assaig sobre la ceguesa de José Saramago (infiniteletters, juan1961)
    juan1961: Escritas con muchos años de diferencia, no cabe la menor duda de que enel argumento existen grandes similitudes, lo cual no quiere decir que tengan algo que ver. A quien le guste la ciencia-ficción, no debería desdeñar esta obra de Saramago, más centrada en la ciencia-ficción política o social.… (més)
  3. 50
    Earth Abides de George R. Stewart (infiniteletters)
  4. 50
    The Midwich Cuckoos de John Wyndham (timspalding)
  5. 40
    The Country of the Blind and Other Science-Fiction Stories de H. G. Wells (sturlington)
    sturlington: Alluded to in the novel.
  6. 30
    The Death of Grass de John Christopher (Rynooo)
  7. 20
    Dark Piper de Andre Norton (DisassemblyOfReason)
    DisassemblyOfReason: What The Day of the Triffids does with plants, Dark Piper may be said to do with animals. In both stories, a world has been given to large-scale experimentation with dangerous creatures - for commercial reasons with the triffids, while for more military applications with the animals on Beltane in Dark Piper. Both stories carry the suggestion that someone (possibly deliberately) turned loose various weapons of germ warfare not long after a major catastrophe, and both stories follow a small group through territory largely abandoned by humans, although unfortunately not by everything...… (més)
  8. 20
    The Night of the Triffids de Simon Clark (Cecrow)
    Cecrow: Sequel by another author
  9. 21
    The Kraken Wakes de John Wyndham (timspalding)
  10. 10
    Bird Box de Josh Malerman (sturlington)
    sturlington: Blindness and monsters
  11. 00
    The Furies de Keith Roberts (infiniteletters)
    infiniteletters: The Furies is definitely on the hokier side.
  12. 00
    Mutant 59: The Plastic-Eaters de Kit Pedler (infiniteletters)
  13. 22
    The Stepford Wives de Ira Levin (Booksloth)
  14. 11
    La carretera de Cormac McCarthy (hazzabamboo)
    hazzabamboo: Two post-apocalyptic masterpieces, with much of their power coming from their focus on a couple of characters and the exotic horrors that threaten them.
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This has been on my re-read list for some time. I didn't particularly enjoy it when I first read it as a young teenager - probably because the protagonist, Bill, is a bit of a fussy, nervous type. This time, I loved the cautionary tale of humanity's greed and excess resulting in our downfall. A must-read for all sci-fi fans. ( )
  SarahEBear | Mar 16, 2024 |
Great book! Easily one of the best dystopian novels I have read. I would say currently tied for second best with Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. Couldn't give 5 stars because the ending was a little underwhelming, but overall definitely worth the read. I highly recommend! ( )
  Gadfly82 | Feb 16, 2024 |
I truly don't remember the first time I read this novel. I know I was very young and I was raiding my school library for every single SF book that grabbed me. I know I pretty much read through the entire SF section of Ridgway Secondary Public School that I attended for grades 7 and 8, so I had to have read it somewhere between late 1974 to mid-1976.

So, one heck of a long time ago. And, to the best of my knowledge, this is literally the very first post-apocalyptic novel I ever read (definitely pre-dating HG Wells's WAR OF THE WORLDS and THE TIME MACHINE, as well as Bradbury's FAHRENHEIT 451).

So, at the time, while I remember very little of the actual story from that first read, I do remember it blew my mind, and sent me on a quest to read everything Wyndham I could put my grubby hands on. I also remember that nothing else he wrote seemed to live up to this book.

On this read-through, I'm much older, much more jaded, and I've read far more than my fair share of post-apocalyptic fiction.

But I still see what I loved about this one. The opening, the wandering through the deserted areas of Britain. The various forms of society that are struggled with throughout the short novel are likely the weakest parts of it, as Wyndham can get a tad preachy, and of course the casual misogyny doesn't hold up all that well, seventy-odd years later.

But overall, considering this novel was published six years before the launch of Sputnik 1, the first manmade satellite, and Wyndham was already speculating on what would eventually be up there in Earth orbit is just fascinating.

Overall, Wells's WAR OF THE WORLDS influence is quite obvious on this novel, and I'd still say Wells's is the superior of the two, but this one still holds a certain charm, due to those nasty walking plants.

While it has its flaws, overall, I really enjoyed this one, the second time around. ( )
  TobinElliott | Jan 21, 2024 |
My first survival scifi book. Definitely not a fan of survival films, but this book worked wonders for me. Prose was strong and the structure sound. Definitely deserves its spot on the Top 100 Scifi books list: http://scifilists.sffjazz.com/lists_books_rank1.html. ( )
  MXMLLN | Jan 12, 2024 |
An absolute classic. ( )
  GordCampbell | Dec 20, 2023 |
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Nom de l'autorCàrrecTipus d'autorObra?Estat
Wyndham, Johnautor primaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Bergey, EarleAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Bridge. AndyAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Bulgheroni, MarisaTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Doeve, EppoAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Fruttero, CarloCol·laboradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Gierth, PatrickDissenyador de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Greifeneder, HubertTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Langford, BarryIntroduccióautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Leger, PatrickIl·lustradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Lord, PeterAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Lucentini, FrancoCol·laboradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Malcolm, GraemeNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Morris, EdmundIntroduccióautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Powers, RichardAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Salwowski, MarkAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Seelig, IngeTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Stewart, JohnAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Viskupic, GaryAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
West, SamuelNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Willock, HarryAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
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"Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave the city, aware that the safe, familiar world they knew a mere twenty-four hours before is gone forever." "But to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, one must survive the Triffids, strange plants that years before began appearing all over the world. The Triffids can grow to over seven feet tall, pull their roots from the ground to walk, and kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous stingers. With society in shambles, they are now posed to prey on humankind. Wyndham chillingly anticipates bio-warfare and mass destruction, fifty years before their realization, in this prescient account of Cold War paranoia."--BOOK JACKET.

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