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Originally Posted by Ashfan
Day of the Triffids is an excellent book. The Howard Keel movie is decent, but you are right, it doesn't follow the book too closely. Simon Clarke wrote a sequel called Night of the Triffids that isn't too bad. Wyndham also wrote The Midwich Cuckoos, which was made into the movie The Village of the Damned, about alien children implanted in human women, apparently as a sort of fifth column.
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Wyndham moved to the top of my list of SF authors I want to read more of. I will have to track down the Clarke book. The reviews are mixed between hatred & rapture so it should be interesting.