John Christopher

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Sam Youd was a British writer best known for science fiction written under the name of **John Christopher**, including the novels The Death of Grass, The Possessors, and the young-adult novel series The Tripods. He won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1971 and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1976. Youd also wrote under variations of his own name and under the pseudonyms Stanley Winchester, Hilary Ford, William Godfrey, William Vine, Peter Graaf, Peter Nichols, and Anthony Rye.

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The Possessors
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Tripods Trilogy
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It's All About The Drive
Representative edition published 2016
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The World in Winter
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The Death of Grass
Representative edition published 2016
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Brunel's Kingdom
Representative edition published 2015
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1939 Second World War in Old Photographs
Representative edition published 2015
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1944
Representative edition published 2015
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London's Historic Railway Stations Through Time
Representative edition published 2015
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Railways of Ireland
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Railways of Wales
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The Prince in Waiting
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The White Voyage
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Empty World
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Dragon dance
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Fireball
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Beyond the burning lands
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Empty world
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The sword of the spirits
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The Tripods Collection: The White Mountains; The City of Gold and Lead; The Pool of Fire; When the Tripods Came
Representative edition published 2014
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1915
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Brunel's Railways
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Locomotives of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway
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Bradshaw's London
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