name that book

[chebby]

Could someone please help me identify a sci-fi book?<br /><br />I read it about the same time I read War of the Worlds, so it might be by the same author.<br /><br />It's about everyone on the planet suddenly becoming blind (due to looking at a comet) and some plantlike aliens appearing on earth after the event and hunting people. Book had a wierd name: TruffleSunflowers or something like that? I remembered the book after watching WOTW a few weeks ago.<br /><br />Thanx in advance! Winner gets a cookie!

 

[flynn]

Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham<br /><br />Read it a few months back, very good book.<br /><br />Also look for "When the Kraken wakes" by the same author. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#800080">"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring" - <strong>Chuck Palahniuk</strong>.</font> </div>

 

[JonClarke]

Just finished re-reading this last night. SA timeless chilling novel, SF at its best.<br /><br />Jon <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Whether we become a multi-planet species with unlimited horizons, or are forever confined to Earth will be decided in the twenty-first century amid the vast plains, rugged canyons and lofty mountains of Mars</em>  Arthur Clarke</p> </div>

 

[chebby]

Thanx Flynn. I'm going to get it for my GF. She liked WOTW and read it last week and I told her there is even a scarrier and more morbid book out there <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> She'll be thrilled! <br /><br />I remember being very scared by both books. I read them when I was eight.

 

[yevaud]

Umm, you mean "night of the Triffids?" (that was the name, IIRC) <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[kane007]

They also made a movie back in the 60's that was quite good but I liked the 1980's BBC series. What was left of the military had cool frisbie firing weapons - razer sharp.

 

[kane007]

Can be purchased online from BBC Shop for £9.99. <br /><br />Was made up of 6 half hour episodes so should fit on one DVD.

 

[tom_hobbes]

Looks as dumb as they come... <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><font color="red">?????????????????????????????????????????????</font><br /><br />Replied to a different thread completely (the one about the Doom 3 movie adaption) and it wound up in here? How weird is that? My apologies Chebby! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font size="2" color="#339966"> I wish I could remember<br /> But my selective memory<br /> Won't let me</font><font size="2" color="#99cc00"> </font><font size="3" color="#339966"><font size="2">- </font></font><font size="1" color="#339966">Mark Oliver Everett</font></p><p> </p> </div>

 

[avaunt]

Chebby, your reaction as a child was exactly the same as mine.<br /><br />Lets see if your reaction as an adult was the same too. Cause I wasn't scared, I was sad.

 

[chebby]

avaunt,<br /><br />I'm reading Ringworld now, but I got Triffids as well, so I'll get to it soon. Btw, Ringworld is a great book, thank you for quoting from it and inciting my interest in the other thread <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[avaunt]

Hahahah thats your next 100 days sorted out. Have you not read Niven before?.<br /><br />There are some excellent anthological works, called "The Man/Kzin wars". Various wrters take a stab at Man meeting the Kzin.<br /><br /><br />If you want to read THE book I buy for my friends, read "Maker of universes" by Phillp Jose Farmer.<br /><br />Promise you will love it.