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The works of John Christopher

__Samuel Youd__ On April 16th, 1922 one of the worlds greatest authors was born, in a city called Lancashire. As a writer he went under more then one name. The biggest being John Christopher then Hilary Ford, William Godfrey, Peter Graff, Peter Nichols, Anthony Rye, and Stanley Winchester. After serving in the war service from 1941-46, on a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation, he later on became what he is today(very famous author). John Christopher (biggest name besides Samuel Youd) is best known for the “Tripods Trilogy.” In this series of writings, he published eight books that really expressed how he writes. John Christopher would be considered unique, due to three reasons. Not only does he write a lot of stories, he also focuses on more than one topic, which engages the readers, and makes them want to read foward into the book. When he writes a story it makes you want to read on and on until the story ends, which will wake you want to read more of his stories. After you have read one story you will want to read more of his books and that is another reason why he is considered unique. Lastly his writing style is smooth and laid back which means that he doesn’t write to much information or to less information, but just enough to hold the readers attention. For example in the book "When the Tripods Came"(first story written in Tripods Trilogy) he writes about a 14 year old boy and his family that tries to leave Egland before the Tripods come and brainwash everyone. He doest go over board and get out of hand with it, neither does he just say something about some ordinary 14 year old boy who wants to move before some silly old Tripods come. Why is John Christopher so important to Science Fiction? Due to his very vivid(when writing doesnt hold back to what he has to say) imagination, John Christopher made people think twice about the future.What im saying is because of his imagination, people read his books and think about the things that he wrote. Even though some of the things he wrote about were crazy, he could have been just crazy enough to show up in the next few years. And because of people being uncertain of themselves, they listen to what he has to say and go along with it and see if some of the things he talk about show up in the future. Samuel Youd(John Christopher, Hilary Ford, etc.) is defiantly one of the best authors that I have reed about. Because of his talents to mix up things into one, it makes him very unique. Also he writes about things that could happen in the future but also in the present/past. Many people look up to him, and that is why he is a great role model.Also before I close things off, Samuel Youd is important to Sci-Fi because of his wide imagination, he creates things that could possibly happen in the future and also gives supporting details. By:Fakari Gresham

Where I got my resources:

1.http://gnelson.demon.co.uk/tripage/jc.html 2.http://fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/john-christopher/ 3.Once you go to the 1st resource listed, go to The Tripods Trilogy and look at the first story and gives the general information.