The Night of the Triffids
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The Night of The Triffids (ISBN 0-340-76601-8) is a novel by Simon Clark. It is a sequel to John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, and Clark has been lauded for his successful emulation of Wyndham's style. This is more faithful in the earlier half of the book , and later chapters seem to follow the author's natural style of writing. The book is written in the first person and narrated by David Masen, son of the first book's protagonist.
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Pilot David Masen has grown up in a community on the Isle of Wight, safe from the Triffid plants who have dominated the world since most human beings were blinded by a meteor shower 25 years ago. As the novel begins, a mysterious darkness falls - dawn has not come as something is blotting out the sun. Masen takes to the air to determine if high cloud is blocking out the sun, but he loses contact with his community and crash lands on a floating island populated by Triffids. There he meets an orphaned young girl, and the pair are rescued by an American ship and taken to New York.
Manhattan, another safe island community, seems like a utopia, but David soon realises it is a dictatorship, run by an old enemy of his father's and anything but perfect. David and his young friend from the floating island are soon being used by both the dictator and the rebels who oppose him, and all the while the Triffids - now evolved into more dangerous forms - are trying to take advantage of the slowly lifting darkness.
