The pair are rescued by an American ship that takes them to Manhattan Island in New York City. There, he meets an orphaned young girl, Christina, who has been surviving on her own in the wild since she was a young child, primarily because she is immune to triffid stings. On David's descent, he loses communication with the control tower and is forced to make a crash landing on a floating island populated by triffids. Pilot David Masen (son of Bill and Josella Masen from The Day of the Triffids) takes to the skies to investigate the cause of the blackout however, even after taking his plane into the atmosphere as high as it can go, he finds that there is no end to the absolute darkness. One morning, a solar blackout occurs and triffids once again besiege the island. The community there has thrived, primarily by refining triffid oil into fuel. The story begins on the Isle of Wight, 25 years after the events from The Day of the Triffids. Clark's book is written in the first person and narrated by David Masen, the son of Wyndham's protagonist. Clark has been commended for his success at mimicking Wyndham's style, but most reviewers have not rated his creation as highly as the original work. It is a sequel to John Wyndham's 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids. The Night of the Triffids is a science fiction novel by British writer Simon Clark, published in 2001.
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