Browsing in Borders after dinner I noticed that Penguin seem to have at least three different edtions of The Day Of The Triffids out. And all the covers say very different things about the book. It's like they're trying to cover all the bases; whatever you want from a sci-fi book they've got you covered. Sadly none of them really conjour up the strangely proper and polite 1950s dystopia Wyndham actually writes about. 
Gollancz SF are doing these re-issues of classic sci-fi. Good covers which succesfully appeals to the completist collector tendency. Though they seem to be making it hard to find a complete list of titles online.
I think this might be taking the internet too far.
that's very weird. in another blogs-collide story i went to Reading Museum (the place not the concept - although our local library is looking a bit dated) and they had a temporary exhibition of Penguin Book covers.
fascinating stuff of course - and one of the books i noticed whilst dragging my 4 year old around was ... the day of the triffids. except their cover illustration was different from the ones you've got now. These were more like pot plants.
for some reason i didn't take a picture for which i'm kicking myself now of course.
Posted by: funkypancake | October 08, 2006 at 08:34 PM