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The most famous catastrophe novel of the twentieth century, John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.' When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth's population blind, Bill Masen - one of the lucky few to keep his sight - finds himself trapped in a London jammed with sightless mobs who prey on those who…

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“we have lived so long in a garden that we have all but forgotten the commonplaces of survival. It was said:  Si fueris Romae, Romani vivito more  , and quite sensibly, too. But it is a more fundamental expression of the same sentiment to say: If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does...”   ― John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos Village Of The Damned, John Wyndham, Food Of The Gods, H G Wells, The Bad Seed, The Truth Is Out There, Science Fiction Novels, Literature Genres, Bad To The Bone

“we have lived so long in a garden that we have all but forgotten the commonplaces of survival. It was said: Si fueris Romae, Romani vivito more , and quite sensibly, too. But it is a more fundamental expression of the same sentiment to say: If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does...” ― John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

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