The Tripods in foreign lands
2017 is the 50th anniversary of the publication of the first of John Christopher’s Tripods books, The White Mountains, and while the books have already been available in the UK for several years in digital...
Category: The Tripods
Message for our times?
On Wednesday (7th June), the New Yorker published a piece by David Cantwell entitled ‘An Early Dystopian Trilogy About Resistance—and What Comes After’ which discusses the work of John Christopher/Sam Youd, with particular reference to...
A writer’s winter
29th September sees the UK publication in the Penguin Worlds classic science-fiction series of a new edition of John Christopher’s The World in Winter, in which the Thames freezes, the whole of Europe lies under...
John Christopher is coming!
As The Independent’s Invisible Ink article put it, was there ever an author with so many pseudonyms? With its third publication, The SYLE Press turns its attention from the Hilary Ford novels to those of...
Forget Winning the Hunger Games!
The internet magazine Wired recently published an article which compared The Tripods by John Christopher (also known as Hilary Ford, also known as Sam Youd) with the Harry Potter books and The Hunger Games.