John Christopher was the pseudonym of Samuel Youd, who was born in Lancashire, England, in He was the author of more than fifty novels and novellas, as well as numerous short stories. His most famous books include The Death of Grass, the Tripods trilogy, The Lotus Caves, and The www.doorway.rued on: Novem. The Guardians is a young-adult science fiction novel written by John Christopher and published by Hamilton in Set in the year , it depicts an authoritarian England divided into two distinct societies: the modern, overpopulated "Conurbs" and the aristocratic, rarefied "County"/5. THE GUARDIANS is among the best of them, looking at a future in which the mass of people exists in the violent squalor of the Conurb, basically monstrous slums where the mass of labor lives struggle, and the County, were the minority of the elite dwell in deceptively green simplicity of the pastoral past/5(72).
The Lotus Caves Nov 4, by John Christopher. (36) $ Two boys discover a series of caverns underneath their moon colony home in this futuristic story from the author of the Tripods series. Marty and Steve may live on the moon, but that doesn't mean they don't want to get away every once in a while. Sam Youd (16 April - 3 February ), 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 www.doorway.ru won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in While John Christopher () was born as Sam Youd, he chose to write his science fiction books under multiple pseudonyms. Well known for his young adult book The Guardians, he won numerous awards for his www.doorway.ru also wrote The Tripods, which is a series of young adult books that imagine a post-apocalyptic world.
John Christopher wrote the book in , trying to put across his view of what the world will be like in , with the Country divided into two different ways of living. I thought that the idea of a group of people called the Guardians looking after both Conurb and County was a good idea. John Christopher was the pseudonym of Samuel Youd, who was born in Lancashire, England, in He was the author of more than fifty novels and novellas, as well as numerous short stories. His most famous books include The Death of Grass, the Tripods trilogy, The Lotus Caves, and The Guardians. The Guardians is a young-adult science fiction novel written by John Christopher and published by Hamilton in Set in the year , it depicts an authoritarian England divided into two distinct societies: the modern, overpopulated "Conurbs" and the aristocratic, rarefied "County".
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