The previous day, the Earth’s orbit was to take it into a path of comet debris. What Masen finds is a new world where everyone is blind a blind doctor jumps to his death from the hospital window, blind patients wander aimlessly through the corridors. When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere. Though initially scared to remove his bandages for fear that he may ruin the restoration of his sight, he is now too scared to not take that risk. But today he can’t hear the sounds he has become accustomed to during his stay in hospital – no traffic outside, no doctors or nurses bustling around, no other patients. He had just undergone a procedure to save his sight. William Masen wakes up in hospital with bandages covering his eyes. Its wide influence is clear to see in our current era of post-apocalyptic storytelling. It is an engrossing and entertaining novel that contains the best elements of the genre – it indulges the reader with an experience of a fantastical world while making poignant observations about our own. The Day of the Triffids has become a sci-fi classic.
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