- Dangerous plants, Fiction, Blindness, Interstellar matter
This sequel to John Wyndham's "The Day of the Triffids", focuses on the hero's son, David Masen, who is searching for a method of destroying the Triffids. In New York he finds a colony whose members seem to be immune to the plant's sting - and where he faces an enemy from his father's past.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Simon Clark
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 443
- Publisher
- Chivers Press, Hodder & Stoughton, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780754007661
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Simon Clark is a horror novelist from Doncaster, England. He is the author of the novel The Night of the Triffids, the novella Humpty's Bones, and the short story Goblin City Lights, which have all won awards. Most of his stories are based in Yorkshire, his home county. He uses a technique that he calls "The Art of Wandering".
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