Masen works as a researcher on a Triffid farm, and ends up in the hospital after a Triffid stings him on the face. Whatever their origin, the plants are also discovered to produce a high-quality vegetable oil, and so an entire industry grows up around farming them. The book's narrator is an Englishman named Bill Masen, who details how some years previously the eponymous carnivorous plants mysteriously began to appear all over the world, eventually proving to be capable of movement and possessing the ability to attack humans with their poisonous stings Masen's own theory is that they were deliberately bioengineered in the Soviet Union and then accidentally released into the wild, but the truth is never revealed. The Day of the Triffids is a 1951 science fiction novel by John Wyndham, arguably the most famous of the British author's so-called " cosy catastrophes".
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