The Triffids – a peaceful, almost pastoral scene, bathed in the colours of a warm spring day – came as a breath of fresh air. Penguin had been publishing Wyndham since 1954 but the introduction of pictorial covers in the 1960s had not done his books any favours, so Lord's treatment of The Day of the Triffids (993) by John Wyndhamġ979 reprint with cover art by Peter Lord. Pelham agreed, and invited Lord to submit a cover treatment for The Day of the Triffids. Prior to this aĬolleague of David Pelham's at Penguin, John Hitchin, mentioned he had a nephew called Peter Lord who was studying graphic design at Middlesex Polytechnic, and heĪsked if Pelham would give the young student a chance to put theory into practice. Penguin already had nine Wyndham titles on its backlist which were released, with Web, as a set of ten titles in 1979-80. John Wyndham was another of Penguin's best-selling authors but his plinth remained empty until a decade after his death, when his estate released a posthumous novelĬalled Web. The honour was bestowed on a number of authors over the years and the list of those elected to this elite group includes Bernard Shaw, H G Wells, Aldous Huxley The Art of Penguin Science Fiction: Triffidus redivivusįor Penguin to publish a set of ten titles by an author was an event of some significance that marked their entry into the pantheon of Penguin's most popular
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