The Day of the Triffids...

Play Girl · 01-27-2002, 02:14 PM

Are there any other sci-fi novels like The Day of the Triffids? I have tried looking for some but most contain large fantascal machine guns or dwarfs and dragons.
Any ideas?
Play Girl
xxx

Bradistic · 02-19-2002, 07:38 PM

Maybe if you tell us what The Day of the Triffids is like we can help you out.

Play Girl · 02-20-2002, 03:49 PM

Well its the future...or rather the past...but it was written in the past (about 1950s I think) and is set in the future. Well the world is very much like our own but it is inhabited by six foot, walking, talking plants that have the ability to kill or atleast blind humans with thier sting. So one night green comets rain down on earth and blind everyone that saw them. This is where the story begins and it follows Bill and ex-triffid worker as he tries to navigate his way around this strange world filled with the blind and one or two sighted people. Oh hell just read it yourself!
Play Girl
xxx

PS The triffids take over as dominant species of the planet hence the name

mirrille · 02-22-2002, 01:58 AM

If you mean sci-fi that isn't typical "space opera" with spaceships and robots and laser cannons or isn't actually fantasy in disguise, there's lots, but it's all different. What do you like about "Triffids" that you are specifically looking for?

Some older books I would recommend are:
Canticle for Leibowitz - a post nuclear holocaust story
Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer, Helliconia Winter - about a world where the year is thousands of years and the seasons hundreds of years long, and how the people deal with it.
The first part of the Dune series (the later part gets a bit weird for some people) - famous series. But it's one of those love it or just don't get it type of books.

These are some of my favourites.

Another book I highly recommend, but that does contain a war against aliens, is Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card. Very very very good book. Don't be fooled by the premise of an interstellar war. It's more about how a kid feels like being groomed to be a general. I hear this book is required reading at some military colleges because it's full of examples of what to do and what not to do when trying to cultivate good relationships with one's troops.

But this is all I can do without knowing what you are looking for.

Nenya · 03-04-2002, 07:38 PM

Try John Wyndham's other books if you haven't already. I particularly recommend "The Chrysalids", and there is another one, I think It is called "The Kraken Wakes". He has written loads, and all of them are as good as the triffids, if not better good.

markedel · 03-04-2002, 09:54 PM

I liked the hyperion series-spac operaish but in a good way. A very good way.

Play Girl · 03-05-2002, 02:37 PM

Thanks very much for all the tips. I just have to find some time to do some reading now!
luv
Play Girl
xxx

BeardofPants · 04-10-2002, 02:00 AM

Day of the triffids is scary! I read it when I was really young (7 if I remember correctly), and it gave me nightmares for weeks!

TwirlingString · 04-15-2002, 08:41 PM

What's this about, I've never read this series, is it interesting?

01-27-2002, 02:14 PM	#1
Play Girl Elven Warrior Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: If I told you I would have to kill you Posts: 159	The Day of the Triffids... Are there any other sci-fi novels like The Day of the Triffids? I have tried looking for some but most contain large fantascal machine guns or dwarfs and dragons. Any ideas? Play Girl xxx __________________ "Off the Record On the Q-T And very HUSH HUSH" Frodo lives!

02-20-2002, 03:49 PM	#3
Play Girl Elven Warrior Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: If I told you I would have to kill you Posts: 159	Well its the future...or rather the past...but it was written in the past (about 1950s I think) and is set in the future. Well the world is very much like our own but it is inhabited by six foot, walking, talking plants that have the ability to kill or atleast blind humans with thier sting. So one night green comets rain down on earth and blind everyone that saw them. This is where the story begins and it follows Bill and ex-triffid worker as he tries to navigate his way around this strange world filled with the blind and one or two sighted people. Oh hell just read it yourself! Play Girl xxx PS The triffids take over as dominant species of the planet hence the name __________________ "Off the Record On the Q-T And very HUSH HUSH" Frodo lives!

03-04-2002, 09:54 PM	#6
markedel 'Sober' Mullet Frosh Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Queen's Posts: 1,245	I liked the hyperion series-spac operaish but in a good way. A very good way. __________________ "Earnur was a man like his father in valour, but not in wisdom"

03-05-2002, 02:37 PM	#7
Play Girl Elven Warrior Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: If I told you I would have to kill you Posts: 159	Thanks very much for all the tips. I just have to find some time to do some reading now! luv Play Girl xxx __________________ "Off the Record On the Q-T And very HUSH HUSH" Frodo lives!

04-10-2002, 02:00 AM	#8
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Day of the triffids is scary! I read it when I was really young (7 if I remember correctly), and it gave me nightmares for weeks! __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

02-19-2002, 07:38 PM	#2
Bradistic Hobbit Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: San Diego Posts: 35	Maybe if you tell us what The Day of the Triffids is like we can help you out.

02-22-2002, 01:58 AM	#4
mirrille Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Canada Posts: 479	If you mean sci-fi that isn't typical "space opera" with spaceships and robots and laser cannons or isn't actually fantasy in disguise, there's lots, but it's all different. What do you like about "Triffids" that you are specifically looking for? Some older books I would recommend are: Canticle for Leibowitz - a post nuclear holocaust story Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer, Helliconia Winter - about a world where the year is thousands of years and the seasons hundreds of years long, and how the people deal with it. The first part of the Dune series (the later part gets a bit weird for some people) - famous series. But it's one of those love it or just don't get it type of books. These are some of my favourites. Another book I highly recommend, but that does contain a war against aliens, is Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card. Very very very good book. Don't be fooled by the premise of an interstellar war. It's more about how a kid feels like being groomed to be a general. I hear this book is required reading at some military colleges because it's full of examples of what to do and what not to do when trying to cultivate good relationships with one's troops. But this is all I can do without knowing what you are looking for.

03-04-2002, 07:38 PM	#5
Nenya Hobbit Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Bristol, England Posts: 24	Try John Wyndham's other books if you haven't already. I particularly recommend "The Chrysalids", and there is another one, I think It is called "The Kraken Wakes". He has written loads, and all of them are as good as the triffids, if not better good.

04-15-2002, 08:41 PM	#9
TwirlingString Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi Posts: 489	What's this about, I've never read this series, is it interesting? __________________ "The Astels are an emotional people. They cry at the drop of a handkerchief. Their culture is much like that of Pelosia. They're extremely devot and invincibly backward. It's been demonstrated to them over an over that serfdom is an archaic, inefficent institution, but they maintain it anyway--largely at the connivance of the serfs thmselves. Astellian nobles don't exert themselves in any way, so they have no concept of human endurance. The serfs take advantage of that outrageously. Astellian serfs have been known to collapse from sheer exhauston at the very mention of such unpleasant words as 'reaping' or 'digging'." ----------------------------------------------- “They lost him?!” Lupin asked , amazed. “Voldemort has been after Harry for 15 years, and then he misplaces him?!”

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