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Mass market paperback. Condition: Fair. 224 pages. Fep is separated but present. Originally published as the Day of the Triffids). The title page has a large vertical tear from the top of the page. John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (10 July 1903 11 March 1969) was an English science fiction writer best known for his works published under the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. Some of his works were set in post-apocalyptic landscapes. His best known works include The Day of the Triffids (1951), filmed in 1962, and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), which was filmed in 1960 as Village of the Damned. by 1931 he was selling short stories and serial fiction to American science fiction magazines. His debut short story, "Worlds to Barter", appeared under the pen name John B. Harris in 1931. Subsequent stories were credited to 'John Beynon Harris' until mid-1935, when he began to use the pen name John Beynon. He also used the pen name Wyndham Parkes for one short story in the British Fantasy Magazine in 1939, as John Beynon had already been credited for another story in the same issue. During the Second World War, Wyndham first served as a censor in the Ministry of Information. He drew on his experiences as a firewatcher during the London Blitz and as a member of the Home Guard in The Day of the Triffids. The Day of the Triffids had an enormous success and established Wyndham as an important exponent of science fiction. He wrote and published six more novels under the name John Wyndham, the name he used professionally from 1951. The Day of the Triffids is a 1951 post-apocalyptic novel by the English science fiction author John Wyndham. After most people in the world are blinded by an apparent meteor shower, an aggressive species of plant starts killing people. This was the first novel published as "John Wyndham". The story has been made into the 1963 feature film of the same name, three radio drama series and two TV series. It was nominated for the International Fantasy Award in 1952, and in 2003 the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read. The protagonist is Bill Masen, a biologist who has made his living working with triffidstall, venomous, carnivorous plants capable of locomotion. Bill suspects they were bioengineered in the Soviet Union and accidentally released into the wild. Because of the excellent industrial quality of an oil produced by and obtained from the triffids, there is heavy triffid cultivation around the world. The narrative begins with Bill in hospital, his eyes bandaged after having been splashed with triffid poison from a stinger. During his recovery he is told of an unexpected green meteor shower. The next morning, he learns that the light from the unusual display has rendered any who watched it blind. He wanders through a chaotic London full of blind inhabitants and meets wealthy novelist Josella Playton, whom he rescues after discovering her being forcibly used as a guide by a blind man. Bill and Josella discover a group of sighted survivors led by a man named Beadley, who plans to establish a colony in the countryside. They decide to join the group. However, a man named Wilfred Coker stages a fire at the university and kidnaps a number of sighted individuals, including Bill and Josella. They are each chained to a blind person and assigned to lead a squadron of the blind, collecting food and other supplies, all the while beset by escaped triffids and rival scavengers. When he wakes one morning to find the survivors have left him, he returns to the Senate House to seek Josella but his only lead is an address left behind by Beadley's group. Bill drives to the address, a country estate called Tynsham in Wiltshire. He finds part of the Beadley group, now led by Durrant. Bill and Coker decide to follow Beadley, finding small groups of blind and sighted people along the way. Eventually they decide to separate, Coker returning to help at Tynsham, while Bill heads fo.…

Paperback original. Condition: Spine lean, a VG copy. First edition thus (& 1st printing). Popular Library 411. Title change: first published as DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS.a year earlier. Cover art by Earle Bergey.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First paperback edition. Popular Library book number 411 with no cover price but sold for 25¢. "Details unfold with leisurely novelistic richness and the characters' actions make logical and psychological sense." Quoted from Barron: Anatomy of Wonder 1995, 3-199.Cover illustration by Earle Bergey. Basis for the 963 British science fiction horror film in CinemaScope. Partial pressure crease to the font cover. A very good copy. Book. …