The Night of the Triffids

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In light of the favorable comments concerning this execrable pulp novel I feel compelled to write a critique even though I have not read the book for many years and do not intend ever reading it again. The novel was published to critical acclaim, winning the British Fantasy Award in 2002. Bringing the adventure to life on audio came about as a result of a conversation between Simon, and his friend John Ainsworth, producer of several Big Finish ranges including Doctor Who Unbound and 2000AD. Giles Cooper adapted the novel in six 30-minute episodes for the BBC Light Programme, [30] first broadcast between 2 October and 6 November 1957. It was produced by Peter Watts. [31] The Day of the Triffids touches on mankind's advances in science and technology as a possible contributor to the collapse of society that's depicted in the novel.

Characteristics [ edit ] In the novel [ edit ] Front cover art for the book The Day of the Triffids A botanical drawing of a triffid by Bryan Poole for the Science Fiction Classics (1998) Clark has also written prose material for U2 in the fan magazine Propaganda. [6] Major works [ edit ] Vampyrrhic novels [ edit ]I am sorry for hating, but I genuinely think that Windham's work is original, surprising, balanced and sensible. Simon Clark's thing, on the other hand, is a literary insult to the Day of the Triffids. Simon Clark's The Night of the Triffids is the authorised 50th-anniversary sequel to The Day of the Triffids (1951) by John Wyndham, that classic SF nightmare which gave our language the word "triffid". Torrence, who hates blind people and the Masens for their role in leaving him half-blind, is finally toppled thanks to a march by blind people whose children are soldiers, and ends up being blinded by David Masen. As for aquatic and gigantic triffids, this was unscientific at the very least. Organisms evolve and adapt when conditions change. But if the triffids had already conquered the world, why would they need to change so dramatically in twenty five years? Again, it was just an unnecessary invention as bog-standard triffids create enough exciting situations as they are.

In the 1981 TV series, the triffids were the creation of real-life Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko. The seeds were spread across the globe when a plane smuggling them out of Russia was shot down during the Cold War. In 2001, fifty years after the publication of The Day of the Triffids, Simon Clark published a sequel, The Night of the Triffids. Set 25 years after the end of the original, it follows the story of Bill Masen’s son, David. He has become a pilot, living in the community on the Isle of Wight that was referred to at the end of the original. Clark scores fairly high in pastiching Wyndham's style, at least." [1] "Wyndham did hit notes of poetry and grim beauty more often than Clark does" [1] "Overall, The Night of the Triffids is a fine work of fiction that will keep any sci-fi/horror fan happy" [2] "It fails, however, in its main aim, that of supplying a worthy follow-up to one of the classics of British science fiction." [3] Awards [ edit ] The Night That Never Ends: The novel begins at 9 AM in summer, and when the main character awakens it is as dark as midnight in winter. A combination of very dense clouds and an asteroid cloud passing between the Sun and Earth is the cause. Later in the story, when the clouds leave, there is light, but the sun looks like it is dying.The triffids also show awareness by their habit of herding blind people into cramped spaces to kill more easily [4] and rooting themselves beside houses, waiting for the occupants. [5] A triffid, on a poster for the 1962 film adaptation In other adaptations and sequels [ edit ] A 20-minute extract for schools was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 21 September 1973, adapted and produced by Peter Fozzard. [ citation needed]

When you hear him talking, he very much comes across as the listener’s friend when you hear him. He’s got one of those voices that’s really reassuring, and it’s such a great quality to have for The Night of the Triffids.”The survivors attempt to establish a self-sufficient colony in Sussex with some success but are constantly under threat from the triffids, which mass around the fenced exterior. Several years pass, until one day a representative of Beadley's faction lands a helicopter in their yard and reports that his group has established a colony on the Isle of Wight. Durrant's talk of Dorset was a deliberate attempt to throw Bill off on his journey to find Beadley. While Bill and the others are reluctant to leave their own settlement, the group decide to see the summer out in Sussex before moving to the Isle of Wight. 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.