The Day Of The Triffids By John Wyndham (Paperback, 2000)

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When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation Carefully removing his bandages he realizes that he is the only person who can see everyone else doctors & patients alike have been blinded by a meteor shower Now with civilization in chaos the triffids
- huge venomous large-rooted plants able to 'walk' feeding on human flesh
- can have their day The Day of the Triffids published in 1951 expresses many of the political concerns of its time the Cold War the fear of biological experimentation & the man-made apocalypse However with its terrifyingly believable insights into the genetic modification of plants the book is more relevant today than ever before John Wyndham was born in 1903 After a wide experience of the English preparatory school he was at Bedales from 1918 to 1921 Careers which he tried included farming law commercial art & advertising & he first started writing short stories intended for sale in 1925 During the war he was in the Civil Service & afterwards in the Army In 1946 he began writing his major science fiction novels including The Kraken Wakes The Chrysalids & The Midwich Cuckoos