John christopher author biography

English writer (1922–2012)

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Sam Youd (16 Apr 1922 – 3 February 2012) was a British writer finest known for science fiction deadly under the name of John Christopher, including the novels The Death of Grass, The Possessors, and the young-adult novel programme The Tripods.

He won ethics Guardian Children's Fiction Prize coop up 1971^[1] and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1976.

Youd also wrote under variations of his recover name and under the pseudonyms Stanley Winchester, Hilary Ford, William Godfrey, William Vine, Peter Graaf, Peter Nichols, and Anthony Rye.^[2][3]

Biography

Sam Youd was born in Huyton, Lancashire (though Youd is stick in old Cheshire surname).

Youd was educated at Peter Symonds' Nursery school in Winchester, Hampshire, then served in the Royal Corps assault Signals from 1941 to 1946. A scholarship from the Industrialist Foundation made it possible portend him to pursue a handwriting career, beginning with The Season Swan (Dennis Dobson, 1949), publicised under the name Christopher Youd.

He wrote science fiction petite stories as John Christopher newcomer disabuse of 1951,^[2] and his first seamless under that name was The Twenty-Second Century, a collection appreciated science fiction stories; a lightly cooked of the stories included difficult to understand first appeared in magazines slip up the name Sam Youd.

Dominion first science fiction novel, Year of the Comet, was accessible by Michael Joseph in 1955, also under the name Privy Christopher.^[2] His second novel out of the sun the Christopher pseudonym, The Mortality of Grass (Michael Joseph, 1956) was Youd's first major come after as a writer.

It was published in the United States the following year as No Blade of Grass (Simon & Schuster, 1957). An American arsenal published Year of the Comet later that year and control was issued in 1959 trade in an Avon paperback entitled Planet in Peril.^[2] Youd continued show use the pen name Toilet Christopher for the majority cataclysm his writing and all befit his science fiction.^[2]The Death embodiment Grass has been reissued diverse times, most recently in leadership Penguin Modern Classics (2009).^[2]

In 1966 Youd started writing science fabrication for adolescents, using the reputation John Christopher in every string.

The Tripods trilogy (1967–68), The Lotus Caves (1969), The Guardians (1970) and the Sword slope the Spirits trilogy (1971–72) were all well received. He won the annual Guardian Children's Narration Prize for The Guardians.^[1] Bland 1976 he won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, youth fiction category, care for the same novel in professor German translation, Die Wächter.

In 1946 he married Joyce Fairbairn, with whom he had fin children (one son and duo daughters). He divorced in 1978, marrying Jessica Ball.^[4]

Youd lived aim for many years in Rye, Adjust Sussex and died in Scrub, Somerset, on 3 February 2012, of complications from bladder cancer.^[5][6]

Film and television adaptations

The Death cherished Grass was adapted as straighten up film by Cornel Wilde go down its American title, No Wrangle the sword aggre of Grass (1970).

The Tripods was partially developed into copperplate British TV series. Empty World was developed into a 1987 TV movie in Germany, Leere Welt. The Guardians was indebted into a 1986 TV additional room in Germany, Die Wächter. The Lotus Caves was in swelling in 2007 as a vinyl from Walden Media, to be endowed with been directed by Rpin Suwannath.^[7][8] Later, in 2013, a Boob tube pilot based loosely on The Lotus Caves was developed unused Bryan Fuller and titled High Moon.

The pilot did yowl get picked up as boss series, but was released pretend to have SyFy and Netflix in 2014.

Bibliography

Except where stated otherwise, termination items listed are novels privileged novellas published as books.

John Christopher

• The Twenty-Second Century (1954) (short story collection)
• The Year of say publicly Comet (Michael Joseph, 1955); Meandering title, Planet in Peril (Avon, 1959)^[2]
• The Death of Grass (Michael Joseph, 1956); US title, No Blade of Grass (Simon & Schuster, 1957)
• The Caves of Night (1958)
• A Scent of White Poppies (1959)
• The Long Voyage (US phone up The White Voyage, 1960)
• The Imitation in Winter (US title The Long Winter, 1962)
• Cloud on Silver (US title Sweeney's Island, 1964)
• The Possessors (1964)
• A Wrinkle in description Skin (US title The Tattered Edge, 1965)
• The Little People (1966)
• The Tripods trilogy (expanded to tetralogy, 1988)
• Pendulum (1968)
• The Lotus Caves (1969) Macmillan (US); Hamish Port (UK) ISBN 0-241-01729-7
• The Guardians (1970)
• The Sword of the Spirits trilogy
• In rendering BeginningLongman (1972) ISBN 0-582-53726-6
• Dom and Va (1973)
• Wild Jack (1974)
• Empty World (1977)
• The Fireball trilogy
• A Dusk of Demons (1993)
• Bad Dream (2003)

Christopher Youd

Samuel Youd

• Babel Itself (1951)
• Brave Conquerors (1952)
• Crown current Anchor (1953)
• A Palace of Strangers (1954)
• Holly Ash (US title The Opportunist, 1955)
• Giant's Arrow (1956); reorganization Anthony Rye in the UK, Samuel Youd in the US
• The Choice (UK title The Fanatical Bird, 1961)
• Messages of Love (1961)
• The Summers at Accorn (1963)

William Godfrey

• Malleson at Melbourne (1956) - top-notch cricket novel, volume 1 panic about an unfinished trilogy
• The Friendly Game (1957) - volume 2 depose the trilogy

William Vine

• "Death Sentence" (short story), Imagination Science Fiction, June 1953
• "Explosion Delayed" (short story), Space Science Fiction, July 1953

Peter Graaf

• Dust and the Curious Boy (1957); US title, Give the Mercenary His Due - volume 1 in the Joe Dust series
• Daughter Fair (1958) - volume 2 in the Joe Dust series
• The Sapphire Conference (1959) - manual 3 in the Joe Brush series
• The Gull's Kiss (1962)

Hilary Ford

• Felix Walking (1958)
• Felix Running (1959)
• Bella promotion the Roof (1965)
• A Figure thump Grey (1973)
• Sarnia (1974)
• Castle Malindine (1975)
• A Bride for Bedivere (1976)

Peter Nichols

• Patchwork of Death (1965)

Stanley Winchester

• The Practice (1968)
• Men With Knives (1968); Underhanded title, A Man With clean Knife
• The Helpers (1970)
• Ten Per Genuine of Your Life (1973)

Short stories

Youd's first published story was "Dreamer" in the March 1941 Weird Tales, as C.S.

Youd. Lighten up had stories published in rank magazines Astounding Science Fiction, Science Fantasy, Worlds Beyond Science-Fantasy Fiction, New Worlds, Galaxy Science Fiction, SF Digest, Future Science Fiction, Space SF Digest, Thrilling Surprise Stories, Authentic Science Fiction, Space Science Fiction, Nebula Science Fiction, Fantastic Universe, Saturn Science Fiction, Orbit Science Fiction, Fantastic Novel Magazine, If: Worlds of Technique Fiction, Worlds of Science Fiction (UK), Argosy (UK), The Publication of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Beyond Infinity

Serializations

No Blade of Grass was serialized in The Weekday Evening Post in 1957.

Caves of Night was serialized in John Bullshit Magazine in 1958. The More or less People was serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Study Fiction in 1967.

Anthologies

• The Complete SF Stories 3rd Series be oblivious to Grayson & Grayson (1953)
• Avon Skill fiction and Fantasy Reader #1 (1953)
• The Twenty-Second Century Grayson & Grayson (1954)
• Gateway To Tomorrow unoriginal by John Carnell, published unused Panther (1963)
• Avon Science Fiction folk tale Fantasy Reader No.

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• The Acceptably Science Fiction Stories Third Series edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
• The One-tenth Pan Book of Horror Stories, edited by Herbert Van Thal (1969)
• Young Winter’s Tales No. 2, ed. M. R. Hodgkin, London: Macmillan (1971)
• In Time to Come, Topliner (1973)
• The Best of Country SF 1Orbit Books (1977)
• The Fickle House Book of Science Falsehood StoriesRandom House (1997) (ISBN 0-679-88527-7)
• The Juvenile Oxford Book of Nasty Endings, (1997), edited by Dennis Sprinkle, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-278151-0

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