RIP John Christopher
Samuel Youd, aka John Christopher (1922 - 2012)
- posted Saturday 4 February 2012 @ 4:22 pm PST
British author Samuel Youd, who wrote SF as John Christopher, died last night in Bath, England, at the age of 89.
As John Christopher he wrote the classic catastrophe novel The Death of Grass (UK 1956), published in the US as No Blade of Grass (1957), and later the popular YA trilogy The Tripods, beginning with The White Mountains (1967).
He also wrote under his own name and several other pseudonyms, as listed in his Wikipedia article.
This entry will be expanded shortly, and a full obituary will appear in the March issue of Locus Magazine.
- posted Saturday 4 February 2012 @ 4:22 pm PST
British author Samuel Youd, who wrote SF as John Christopher, died last night in Bath, England, at the age of 89.
As John Christopher he wrote the classic catastrophe novel The Death of Grass (UK 1956), published in the US as No Blade of Grass (1957), and later the popular YA trilogy The Tripods, beginning with The White Mountains (1967).
He also wrote under his own name and several other pseudonyms, as listed in his Wikipedia article.
This entry will be expanded shortly, and a full obituary will appear in the March issue of Locus Magazine.