The Night of the Triffids
Aug 2014 · Hachette UK
4.2star
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About this ebook
In John Wyndham’s classic bestsellerThe Day of the Triffids the world has been overwhelmed by killer plants that have blinded almost the entire population. As the novel ends, Wyndham’s narrator scientist Bill Masen is escaping, with his wife and four-year-old son, to the Isle of Wight where a small colony of survivors is holding out. Simon Clark’s sequels picks up the story twenty-five years on.
The survivors are safe, for the time being at least, on their island, where they have continued efforts to combat the triffids, while also striving in various ways to build a new civilization – in a Mother House, for example, women spend their lives endlessly giving birth. Elsewhere in the world, similar colonies cling to survival, while the triffids persist in their attempts to destroy humanity.
One morning Bill Masen’s son, David, now grown up, wakes to a world plunged into darkness. Now, the triffids have an advantage over even sighted humanity.
Simon Clark has written an inventive and fast-moving sequel to Wyndham’s story, crafting an elegant and scary tale of humanity’s ongoing fightback against the triffids.
The survivors are safe, for the time being at least, on their island, where they have continued efforts to combat the triffids, while also striving in various ways to build a new civilization – in a Mother House, for example, women spend their lives endlessly giving birth. Elsewhere in the world, similar colonies cling to survival, while the triffids persist in their attempts to destroy humanity.
One morning Bill Masen’s son, David, now grown up, wakes to a world plunged into darkness. Now, the triffids have an advantage over even sighted humanity.
Simon Clark has written an inventive and fast-moving sequel to Wyndham’s story, crafting an elegant and scary tale of humanity’s ongoing fightback against the triffids.
Ratings and reviews
4.2
16 reviews
Ben Sparks
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December 31, 2021
Disappointing. Wyndham's original is a masterpiece. This is riddled with clichés and feels like poor fan fiction. The tale is passably interesting but fundamentally forgettable in a way the original is not.
Jon Phillips
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July 3, 2016
More satisfying "ending" than the original but a few too many convenient coincidences in order to get there.
Hilary Abbot
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October 21, 2014
A good read, plenty of well - constructed complexity and a satisfying follow - up to Wyndham's classic.
About the author
SIMON CLARK is the author of Nailed by the Heart, Blood Crazy, Darker, King Blood, Vampyrrhic, The Fall and Judas Tree. His short stories have appeared in several magazines and anthologies, and he has published two collections, Blood and Grit and Salt Snake. His work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and he has also written prose material for the rock band U2. He lives in Doncaster, South Yorkshire.
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