I am reading The Day of the Triffids (1951) by John Wyndham. In this Sci-Fi novel, most of humanity is blinded by a super-spectacular meteor shower. Simultaneously, mutated plants called "triffids" begin perambulating with a lethally poisonous whip. Between four to six feet tall, these triffids "sense" a person nearby and from the bulb atop their frame they lash out this whip that catches people in the face or head. Then the triffid slowly crawls over to the corpse, and like a Venus Flytrap, is feasts on prey through its roots. Blind people are easy victims for these creatures that stalk and wait for them in the bushes.

Taking place in London and the UK, many of the survivors who weren't blinded are absolutely certain that "the Americans will come and save them at any day now."

Written after the "Blitz," D-Day, VE and VJ Day, and with the Korean War raging, "the Americans will save us" is what some British survivors in the novel felt.

Look at what Europeans think of Americans now thanks to Dummkopf Trumpf.

PS: In the 1950s, John Wyndham gave us the terms "Spider-Man" and "mutants" in one of his novels.

I wonder what Stan Lee of Marvel Comics fame was reading in the 1950s?