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 pursue his writing career beginning with The Winter Swan. In 1966 he started writing (science-)fiction for adolescents.

Bibliography

• 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) (Part I of the Tripods Trilogy)
• The City Of Gold And Lead (1967) (Part II of the Tripods Trilogy)
• Pendulum (1968)
• The Pool Of Fire (1968) (Part III of the Tripods Trilogy)
• 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 - a prequel to the The Tripods trilogy (in USA 1988)

See also

science fiction: authors - novels - short stories - television shows

External link

• Verbose biography of Samuel Youd (http://www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/tripage/jc.html)