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Sam Youd


Born
in Huyton, The United Kingdom
April 16, 1922

Died
February 03, 2012

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Sam Youd – who would go on, as John Christopher, to write The Death of Grass and The Tripods - was born in Lancashire in April 1922, during an unseasonable snowstorm.

His teenage love affair with science fiction was short-lived, and by his mid-twenties his ambition had turned to literary fiction. His first novel, The Winter Swan, came out in 1949; he brought out a total of ten non-genre titles, before turning his attention entirely to genre fiction.

As a writer of genre novels his range was extensive. Alongside John Christopher the dystopian and young adult writer, there was William Godfrey the cricket novelist, Peter Graaf the thriller writer, Hilary Ford whose stories centred on female protagonists, Stanley Winchester who chronicled the car ...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 13 ratings · 4 reviews · 10 distinct works
The Winter Swan
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1949 — 2 editions
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A Palace of Strangers
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1954 — 2 editions
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Holly Ash
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1955 — 4 editions
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The Summers at Accorn
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1963 — 2 editions
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Babel Itself
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1951 — 3 editions
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Messages of Love
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1961 — 7 editions
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Giant's Arrow
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Brave Conquerors
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The opportunist,
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The choice,
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