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John Christopher

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Sam Youd (16 April 1922 – 3 February 2012), known professionally as Christopher Samuel Youd, was a British writer, best known for science fiction under the pseudonym John Christopher, including the novels The Death of Grass, The Possessors, and the young-adult novel series The Tripods. [1]

85 relations: A Dusk of Demons, A Wrinkle in the Skin, Adolescence, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Argosy (UK magazine), Authentic Science Fiction, Bath, Somerset, British people, Cheshire, Christopher Priest (novelist), Cornel Wilde, Cricket, Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, Dragon Dance (novel), E. F. Bleiler, E. P. Dutton, Empty World, Fantastic Story Quarterly, Fantastic Universe, Film adaptation, Fireball (novel), Future Science Fiction and Science Fiction Stories, Galaxy Science Fiction, Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, Hamish Hamilton, Herbert van Thal, Huyton, If (magazine), Internet Speculative Fiction Database, Jo Walton, John Bull (magazine), John Carnell, Lancashire, Locus (magazine), Longman, Macmillan Publishers, Macmillan Publishers (United States), Nebula Science Fiction, Netflix, New Found Land (novel), New Worlds (magazine), No Blade of Grass (film), Orbit Books, Orbit Science Fiction, Oxford University Press, Panther Books, Paul Vitello, Penguin Classics, Peter Symonds College, Prequel, ..., Pseudonym, Random House, Rockefeller Foundation, Royal Corps of Signals, Rye, East Sussex, Saturn (magazine), Science Fantasy (magazine), Science fiction, Science Fiction Monthly, Serial (literature), Simon & Schuster, Space Science Fiction, Sword of the Spirits, Syfy, T. E. Dikty, The Death of Grass, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, The Guardian, The Guardians (novel), The Lotus Caves, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The New York Times, The Saturday Evening Post, The Tripods, The Tripods (TV series), The World in Winter, Victor Gollancz Ltd, Viking Press, Walden Media, Weird Tales, Winchester, Wonder Stories, Worlds Beyond (magazine), Youd, Young adult fiction. Expand index (35 more) »

A Dusk of Demons

A Dusk of Demons is a young adult science fiction novel written by the British author John Christopher and published in 1993.

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A Wrinkle in the Skin

A Wrinkle In The Skin (also known as The Ragged Edge) is a 1965 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel written by the English author John Christopher.

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Adolescence

AdolescenceMacmillan Dictionary for Students Macmillan, Pan Ltd.

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Analog Science Fiction and Fact

Analog Science Fiction and Fact is an American science-fiction magazine published under various titles since 1930.

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Argosy (UK magazine)

Argosy magazine (also known as The Argosy) was the title of three magazines published in the United Kingdom, one in the late 19th century, another in the middle of the 20th century, and the other, very briefly, in the early 21st century.

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Authentic Science Fiction

Authentic Science Fiction was a British science fiction magazine published in the 1950s that ran for 85 issues under three editors: Gordon Landsborough, H.J. Campbell, and E.C. Tubb.

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Bath, Somerset

Bath is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, known for its Roman-built baths.

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British people

The British people, or the Britons, are the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.

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Cheshire

Cheshire (archaically the County Palatine of Chester) is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south and Flintshire, Wales and Wrexham county borough to the west.

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Christopher Priest (novelist)

Christopher Priest (born 14 July 1943) is a British novelist and science fiction writer.

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Cornel Wilde

Cornel Wilde (October 13, 1912 – October 16, 1989) was a Hungarian-American actor and film director.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis

The (German Children´s Literature Award) is an annual award established in 1956 by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth to recognise outstanding works of children's literature.

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Dragon Dance (novel)

Dragon Dance is a young adult alternative history novel by John Christopher.

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E. F. Bleiler

Everett Franklin Bleiler (April 30, 1920 – June 13, 2010) was an editor, bibliographer, and scholar of science fiction, detective fiction, and fantasy literature.

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Empty World

Empty World (1977) is an apocalyptic fiction novel written by John Christopher aimed at an adolescent audience.

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Fantastic Story Quarterly

Fantastic Story Quarterly was a pulp science fiction magazine, published from 1950 to 1955 by Best Books, a subsidiary imprint of Standard Magazines.

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Fantastic Universe

Fantastic Universe was a U.S. science fiction magazine which began publishing in the 1950s.

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Film adaptation

A film adaptation is the transfer of a work or story, in whole or in part, to a feature film.

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Fireball (novel)

Fireball is the first book in a trilogy by John Christopher, published in 1981, exploring the adventures of two cousins when they are suddenly transported into an alternative history Earth through a mysterious fireball.

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Future Science Fiction and Science Fiction Stories

Future Science Fiction and Science Fiction Stories were two American science fiction magazines that were published under various names between 1939 and 1943 and again from 1950 to 1960.

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Galaxy Science Fiction

Galaxy Science Fiction was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published from 1950 to 1980.

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Guardian Children's Fiction Prize

The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize or Guardian Award is a literary award that annually recognises one fiction book written for children or young adults (at least age eight) and published in the United Kingdom.

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Hamish Hamilton

Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in 1931 eponymously by the half-Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton (Hamish is the vocative form of the Gaelic 'Seumas', James the English form – which was also his given name, and Jamie the diminutive form).

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Herbert van Thal

Bertie Maurice van Thal (1904–1983), known as Herbert van Thal, was a British bookseller, publisher, agent, biographer, and anthologist.

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Huyton

Huyton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, in Merseyside, England.

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If (magazine)

If was an American science-fiction magazine launched in March 1952 by Quinn Publications, owned by James L. Quinn.

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Internet Speculative Fiction Database

The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) is a database of bibliographic information on genres considered speculative fiction, including science fiction and related genres such as fantasy fiction and horror fiction.

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Jo Walton

Jo Walton (born December 1, 1964) is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet.

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John Bull (magazine)

The original John Bull was a Sunday newspaper established in the City, London EC4, by Theodore Hook in 1820.

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John Carnell

Edward John Carnell (8 April 1912 – 23 March 1972), known to his friends as either Ted or John, was a British science fiction editor known for editing New Worlds in 1946 then from 1949 to 1963.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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Locus (magazine)

Locus: The Magazine of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field, is an American magazine published monthly in Oakland, California.

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Longman

Longman, commonly known as Pearson Longman, is a publishing company founded in London, England, in 1724 and is owned by Pearson PLC.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers Ltd (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group) is an international publishing company owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

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Macmillan Publishers (United States)

Macmillan Publishers USA was the former name of a now mostly defunct American publishing company.

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Nebula Science Fiction

Nebula Science Fiction was the first Scottish science fiction magazine.

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Netflix

Netflix, Inc. is an American over-the-top media services provider, headquartered in Los Gatos, California.

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New Found Land (novel)

New Found Land is a young adult alternate history novel by John Christopher, the second in his Fireball series.

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New Worlds (magazine)

New Worlds was a British science fiction magazine that began in 1936 as a fanzine called Novae Terrae.

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No Blade of Grass (film)

No Blade of Grass is a 1970 British-American apocalyptic science fiction film directed and produced by Cornel Wilde and starring Nigel Davenport, Jean Wallace, and John Hamill.

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Orbit Books

Orbit Books is an international publisher that specialises in science fiction and fantasy books.

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Orbit Science Fiction

Orbit Science Fiction was a short lived science fiction magazine anthology published in 1953 and 1954 by the Hanro Corporation.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Panther Books

Panther Books Ltd was a British publishing house especially active in the 1950s and 1960s, specialising in paperback fiction.

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Paul Vitello

Paul Vitello is an American journalist who has been writing for a variety of publications since 1972.

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Penguin Classics

Penguin Classics is an imprint published by Penguin Books, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House.

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Peter Symonds College

Peter Symonds College is a sixth form college in Winchester, Hampshire, in the south of England.

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Prequel

A prequel is a literary, dramatic, or cinematic work whose story precedes that of a previous work, by focusing on events that occur before the original narrative.

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Pseudonym

A pseudonym or alias is a name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which can differ from their first or true name (orthonym).

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Random House

Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.

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Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation is a private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

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Royal Corps of Signals

The Royal Corps of Signals (often simply known as the Royal Signals - abbreviated to R SIGNALS) is one of the combat support arms of the British Army.

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Rye, East Sussex

Rye is a small town in East Sussex, England, two miles from the sea at the confluence of three rivers: the Rother, the Tillingham and the Brede.

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Saturn (magazine)

Saturn was a short-lived bi-monthly, digest sized science fiction magazine published by Candar Publishing out of New York City.

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Science Fantasy (magazine)

Science Fantasy, which also appeared under the titles Impulse and SF Impulse, was a British fantasy and science fiction magazine, launched in 1950 by Nova Publications as a companion to Nova's New Worlds.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Science Fiction Monthly

Science Fiction Monthly was a British science fiction magazine published from 1974-1976 by New English Library.

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Serial (literature)

In literature, a serial, is a printing format by which a single larger work, often a work of narrative fiction, is published in smaller, sequential installments.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Space Science Fiction

Space Science Fiction was a science fiction magazine published by Space Publications, Inc.

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Sword of the Spirits

The Sword of the Spirits is the unofficial title of a trilogy of young adult novels written by Sam Youd under his pseudonym John Christopher.

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Syfy

Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel and Sci Fi) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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T. E. Dikty

Thaddeus Maxim Eugene (Ted) Dikty (June 16, 1920 – October 11, 1991) was an editor who also played a role as one of the earliest science fiction anthologists, and as a publisher.

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The Death of Grass

The Death of Grass (published in the United States as No Blade of Grass) is a 1956 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel written by the English author Samuel Youd under the pen name John Christopher.

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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is an English language reference work on science fiction, first published in 1979.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Guardians (novel)

The Guardians is a young-adult science fiction novel written by John Christopher and published by Hamilton in 1970.

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The Lotus Caves

The Lotus Caves is a juvenile science fiction novel by John Christopher, first published in 1969.

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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (usually referred to as F&SF) is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Fantasy House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine published six times a year.

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The Tripods

The Tripods is a series of young adult novels written by John Christopher, beginning in 1967.

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The Tripods (TV series)

The Tripods is a television adaptation of John Christopher's The Tripods series of novels.

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The World in Winter

The World in Winter (US title The Long Winter) is a 1962 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by British writer John Christopher.

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Victor Gollancz Ltd

Victor Gollancz Ltd was a major British book publishing house of the twentieth century.

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Viking Press

Viking Press is an American publishing company now owned by Penguin Random House.

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Walden Media

Walden Media, LLC or Walden Media is an American film investor, distributor, and publishing company best known as the producers of ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' series.

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Weird Tales

Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger in March 1923.

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Winchester

Winchester is a city and the county town of Hampshire, England.

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Wonder Stories

Wonder Stories is an early American science fiction magazine which was published under several titles from 1929 to 1955.

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Worlds Beyond (magazine)

Worlds Beyond was an American digest magazine of science fiction and fantasy fiction in 1950 and 1951.

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Youd

Youd is an English surname mostly found in Cheshire and Flintshire.

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Young adult fiction

Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction published for readers in their youth.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Christopher

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