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Can I read The Night of the Triffids on EtoBox?
The Night of the Triffids by Clark, Simon is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Night of the Triffids about?
В В В At the end of The Day of the Triffids , the hero, Bill Masen, his wife, and four-year-old son leave the British mainland to join a new colony on the Isle of Wight. The Night of the Triffids takes up the story 25 years later. David Masen, the now grown-up son of Bill, is a pilot, still searching for a method of destroying the implacable triffid plant as it continues its worldwide march, seemingly intent on wiping out humankind. David eventually manages to reach New York, where a very different sort of colony has been set up, a colony whose members seem to be immune to the triffid string and where David comes face to face with an old enemy from his father's past. В В В В *** В В В В В В В В From Publishers Weekly В В В В In John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids (1951), mankind is overtaken-and much of it blinded-by the demonic walking plant of the title, a monster created in a lab in an act of Cold War profiteering. Clark ( Vampyrrhic , etc.) picks up the story more than 25 years later, puts a new narrator at the helm and spins a brisk and engaging adventure-cum-horror yarn. Clark's narrator is David Masen, son of scientist Bill Masen (the
Who reads The Night of the Triffids?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Clark, Simon
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Fiction, Science Fiction
- Rating
- 3.68 / 5 (1,074 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14