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The day of the triffids by john wyndham5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a book about the implications of successful survival in a world changed forever, where morality and what we think of as humanity has become obsolete. What the book is about, is how the complete disintegration of society and civilization, as we know, it leads to uncomfortable ethical questions about societal convention and structures. ![]() The carnivorous plants of the title, serve only as an exciting backdrop to the main thematic concerns of the novel. I was surprised by how few Triffids there are in The Day of the Triffids. The brightness of the comet display has the unfortunate consequence of burning the retinas of anyone that looks at it. In my opinion, Wyndham does a brilliant job of telling the story of the survivors of an apocalypse that leaves most humans blind, after they watch a spectacular comet display visible across the world. Day of the Triffids was one of the first post-apocalyptic dystopian science fiction novels to be published, and as such, can be seen as an inspirational source of a vast amount of work that has followed it. ![]()
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