Samuel Youd (born
February 12,
1922 in
Lancashire) is a
British science fiction author. He writes under the following
pseudonyms:
- John Christopher
- William Godfrey
- Hilary Ford
- Peter Graaf
- Peter Nichols
- Anthony Rye
He is most known for writing The Tripods trilogy under the pseudonym John Christopher. He did his war service in the Royal Signal Corps[?] 1941-1946. A scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation made it possible for him to persue his writing career beginning with The Winter Swan. In 1966 he started writing (science-)fiction for adolescents.
- The Winter Swan (1949)
- The Twenty-Second Century (1954)
- The Year Of The Comet (1955) (in USA: Planet In Peril, 1959)
- The Death Of Grass (1956) (in USA: No Blade Of Grass, 1957)
- The Caves Of Night (in USA 1958)
- The Long Voyage (1960) (in USA: The White Voyage, 1961)
- The World In Winter (1962) (in USA: The Long Winter, 1962)
- Cloud On Silver (1964) (om USA: Sweeney's Island, 1964)
- The Possessors (in USA: 1964)
- A Wrinkle In The Skin (1965) (in USA: The Ragged Edge, 1966)
- The Little People (USA: 1966)
- The White Mountains (1967)
- The City Of Gold And Lead (1967)
- Pendulum (1968)
- The Pool Of Fire (1968)
- The Lotus Caves (1969)
- The Guardians (1970)
- The Prince In Waiting (1970)
- Beyond The Burning Lands (1971)
- The Sword Of The Spirits (1972)
- Dom And Va (1973)
- Wild Jack (in USA: 1974)
- Empty World (1977)
- The Prince In Waiting Trilogy (1983) (in USA: 1980)
- The Tripods Trilogy (in USA 1980)
- Fireball (1981)
- New Found Land (1983)
- Dragon Dance (1986)
- When The Tripods Came (in USA 1988)