The Day of the TriffidsBy: John Wyndham The influential masterpiece of one of the twentieth centurys most brilliantand neglectedscience fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.now in development as a miniseries directed by Johan Renck. [Wyndham] avoids easy allegories and instead questions the relative values of the civilisation that has been lost, the literally blind terror of humanity in the