The first volume of the collected works of John Wyndham includes his most famous novels, “The Day of the Triffids” and “The Cuckoos of Midwich.” "The Day of the Triffids" belongs to the genre of "disaster novels". After a rain of green meteors blinds humanity, the Earth is taken over by triffids, carnivorous plants capable of independent movement. And in The Cuckoos of Midwich, golden-eyed children born in an inconspicuous English town turn out to be the vanguard of strangers whose goals are frightening in their incomprehensibility.