Author John Christopher Bibliography
The Possessors (John Christopher) ---»
...This is an excellent science fiction story which highlights John Cristophers virtuosity as a master of emotional writing. Fear, suspense, everything is wrapped up in an addictive story amongst the high alps. The only sad thing is, with all the global warming, it may eventually be hard to beleive people actually went skiing there, once [...]
The Tripods Set, When the Tripods Came, the White Mountains, the City of Gold and Lead, the Pool of Fire (John Christopher) ---»
...This is merely a boxed set of the Tripods series by John Christopher. Not as nice as having old copies from the 1960s and 70s, with their far superior cover art, but still the easiest way to get all the books in the series. – reviewed by bookian
Tripods Trilogy (John Christopher) ---»
...Another, earlier set of the Tripod series from 1988. This one is harder to find than the other published in 1999 by Aladdin Paperbacks, but the cover art is FAR superior. – reviewed by bookian
The Pool of Fire (John Christopher) ---»
...The last book in John Cristophers Tripod series, The Pool of Fire leads the child hero Will into the sticky wisdom which comes with maturity and of an organism undergoing metamorphosis. This is a rather fast paced and action oriented conclusion to the series, but one which through its imaginative backgrounds and deep psychological characterizations [...]
When the Tripods Came (John Christopher) ---»
...When the Tripods Came starts out the Tripod trilogy. Interestingly enough, it centers a lot around the mass hypnotism by a television broadcast show called the Trippy Show. Whats more scary… the alien force come to enslave the minds of humans, or the human broadcast technology that has nearly the same effect? – reviewed by [...]
The City of Gold and Lead (John Christopher) ---»
...The City of Gold and Lead, third in the John Christopher Tripod series, leads the hero Will deep into alien territory. There he learns about their race and plans by studying them in depth, but at no little danger. A well written and excitingly tense adventure in which characteristics of perception, study, and questioning leads [...]
A Wrinkle in the Skin (John Christopher) ---»
...This is a top quality novel in which the hero is an improbable horticulturist set adrift in a world made over by disaster. One of John Christophers more exciting novels and well paced, it is almost a taxonomy of human reactions in times of disaster and apocalypse, witnessed by the perceptive mind of a questioning [...]
The White Mountains (John Christopher) ---»
...One of the Tripod books, The White Mountains follows Will Parker as he attempts to escape the coming of the Tripods, whose goal is to cap humans once they reach adulthood. It has more than enough imaginative inventiveness to handle the explosively creative mind of any youngun up to adulthood. In fact, it would do [...]
The Lotus Caves (John Christopher) ---»
...One of our personal favorites, young recalcitrant hoodlums trapped inside the Bubble, a moon dome where earth colonists are given over to live out a sentence of 25 years or so, find themselves going beyond their young selves as they break the laws of the Bubble and set out to explore, finding one of the [...]
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