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John Christopher

Born

in Huyton, Lancashire, The United Kingdom

April 16, 1922

Died

February 03, 2012

Website

http://thesylepress.com

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Children's Books, Historical Fiction

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Sam Youd was born in Huyton, Lancashire in April 1922, during an unseasonable snowstorm.

As a boy, he was devoted to the newly emergent genre of science-fiction: ‘In the early thirties,’ he later wrote, ‘we knew just enough about the solar system for its possibilities to be a magnet to the imagination.’

Over the following decades, his imagination flowed from science-fiction into general novels, cricket novels, medical novels, gothic romances, detective thrillers, light comedies … In all he published fifty-six novels and a myriad of short stories, under his own name as well as eight different pen-names.

He is perhaps best known as John Christopher, author of the seminal work of speculative fiction, The Death of Grass (today available as a Pengu ...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 48,026 ratings · 3,283 reviews · 114 distinct works • Similar authors

	The White Mountains (The Tripods, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 11,851 ratings — published 1967 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The City of Gold and Lead 4.07 avg rating — 7,270 ratings — published 1967 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Death of Grass 3.87 avg rating — 7,659 ratings — published 1956 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pool of Fire really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,439 ratings — published 1968 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When the Tripods Came 3.79 avg rating — 3,963 ratings — published 1988 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tripods Trilogy (The Tripods, #1-3) 4.19 avg rating — 2,678 ratings — published 1967 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prince in Waiting 3.86 avg rating — 907 ratings — published 1970 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond the Burning Lands 3.86 avg rating — 781 ratings — published 1971 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empty World 3.86 avg rating — 715 ratings — published 1977 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Wrinkle in the Skin 3.85 avg rating — 647 ratings — published 1965 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Tripods (4 books)
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The Sword of the Spirits (3 books)
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The Fireball Trilogy (3 books)
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3.46 avg rating — 511 ratings

Quotes by John Christopher

“We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.”
― John Christopher, The Prince in Waiting

tags: relationships

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“I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the days that came after. Pleasant, but alas, impossible. That which had brought us together had gone, and now our paths diverged, according to our natures and needs. We would meet again, from time to time, but always a little more as strangers; until perhaps at last, as old men with only memories left, we could sit together and try to share them.”
― John Christopher, The Pool of Fire

tags: friendship

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“Some people are oil and water.”
― John Christopher, The Pool of Fire

tags: relationships

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Vote for the book you'd like to read for the April discussion. (Please do not vote unless you'll read/re-read and return to discuss the book if your choice wins.) Many of these will be at your library.

Bird Box by Josh Malerman
2014, 305 pages, 3.95 stars
$11.99 Kindle, paper from $4 used.

4 votes, 26.7%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
1924, 230 pages, 3.96 stars
99¢ Kindle, cheap used paperback

3 votes, 20.0%

Blindness by José Saramago
1995, 286 pages, 4.05 stars
$9.99 Kindle, cheap used paperback

2 votes, 13.3%

Shades: The Gehenna Dilemma by Eric Dallaire
2015, 278 pages, 4.52 stars
99¢ Kindle, cheap used paperback

2 votes, 13.3%

The Death of Grass by John Christopher
Also by the newer title No Blade of Grass
1956, 208 pages, 3.88 stars
used paper from $6.36
*Not available on Kindle*

2 votes, 13.3%

Earthbound by Mark R. Healy
2015, 360 pages, 4.43 stars
$2.99 Kindle, $12.99 print

1 vote, 6.7%

Flesh & Wires by Jackie Hatton
2015, 282 pages, 4 stars
$7.95 Kindle, used paper from $10.97

1 vote, 6.7%

15 total votes

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