The Tripods Collection (Boxed Set)
The Tripods Collection (Boxed Set)
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The Tripods Collection (Boxed Set) by John Christopher
The Tripods' rule is complete: the classic alien trilogy and its prequel are now available in a collectible paperback boxed set. In Will's world, everything is controlled by the Tripods--huge, three-legged machines that descended upon Earth long ago. Most people unquestioningly accept the Tripods' power, but Will is not most people. Journey with him in this collection of all four books in John Christopher's beloved classic sci-fi dystopian series, now available as a paperback boxed set. Includes:The White Mountains
The City of Gold and Lead
The Pool of Fire
When the Tripods Came
John Christopher (Sam Youd) was born in England in April 1922, during an unseasonable snowstorm. His early years were spent in Lancashire and Hampshire. He left school at sixteen to work as a local government clerk until being called up for army service in 1941, and spent the following four and a half years with the Royal Corps of Signals, in Gibraltar, North Africa, Italy, and Austria.
On leaving the army he renewed a teenage ambition toward being a writer, and in 1947, on the basis of an unfinished novel, won an Atlantic Award, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, which enabled him to devote himself to writing for a year. He tried to justify the award by writing serious novels, but subsequently also wrote detective thrillers, light comedies, novels based on cricket, and science fiction, to which he had been passionately devoted in his early teens. After several adult science fiction novels, he was asked to write for the young adult field, and ended up writing sixteen books in that genre, including The Guardians, The Lotus Caves, Dom and Va, Empty World, and the Sword and Fireball trilogies, as well as the Tripods trilogy. Following a BBC television series in 1984 based on the Tripods books, he wrote a prequel, When the Tripods Came, explaining how it all came about.
Sam Youd is a widower with five children and numerous grandchildren, and lives in Rye, in the county of Sussex, England.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781481415057 |
| ISBN 10 | 1481415050 |
| Title | The Tripods Collection (Boxed Set) |
| Author | John Christopher |
| Series | Tripods |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 2014-08-12 |
| Number of pages | 1088 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |