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If your only recollection of Day of the Triffids is the cheap 1960's monster flick, do yourself a favor and go read John Wyhndham's wonderful cozy catastrophe from whence it originated.
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If your only recollection of Day of the Triffids is the cheap 1960's monster flick, do yourself a favor and go read John Wyhndham's wonderful cozy catastrophe from whence it originated.
December 2009 2009
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A new television adaptation of classic sci-fi story The Day of The Triffids is being made by the BBC.
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"I voted for Brave New world, but Day of the Triffids was a very, very close second."
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"I voted for Brave New world, but Day of the Triffids was a very, very close second."
April 2008 2008
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Bill Masen, a scientist who has spent his life working with the genetically engineered, carnivorous plants known as Triffids, finds himself one of the few sighted people left in the world after an intense solar event blinds much of the population.
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The Day of the Triffids is a fine book, albeit tethered unfortunately both to its times (the Commies did it) and a credulity-stretching premise (to make walking plants dangerous, Wyndham had to blind almost everyone on earth).
The Guardian World News John Self 2011
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The Triffids were a 1980s Australian folk-pop band whose frontman, David McComb, died in 1999.
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The Triffids were a 1980s Australian folk-pop band whose frontman, David McComb, died in 1999.
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The Triffids were a 1980s Australian folk-pop band whose frontman, David McComb, died in 1999.
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