The City of Gold and Lead (Tripods Trilogy) - Hardcover

Christopher, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689855052 ISBN 13: 9780689855054

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2003

Synopsis

Will, Henry, and Beanpole have been living in the White Mountains with the last community of free people on Earth, training to fight against the Tripods. Now there is an opportunity for them to obtain vital information -- every year, young men come from all over to compete in a series of Games, and the winners are taken to the City of the Tripods. Will intends to be one of them. But although many enter the City, no one ever comes out. How will he escape with what he must risk his life to learn? Thirty-five years after its original publication, we are proud to offer this anniversary edition of The City of Gold and Lead, featuring a new preface from John Christopher, as well as the author's fully revised text, available in the United States for the first time.

About this title

About the Author:

John Christopher (Sam Youd) was born in England in April 1922, during an unseasonable snowstorm. His early years were spent in Lancashire and Hampshire. He left school at sixteen to work as a local government clerk until being called up for army service in 1941, and spent the following four and a half years with the Royal Corps of Signals, in Gibraltar, North Africa, Italy, and Austria.

On leaving the army he renewed a teenage ambition toward being a writer, and in 1947, on the basis of an unfinished novel, won an Atlantic Award, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, which enabled him to devote himself to writing for a year. He tried to justify the award by writing serious novels, but subsequently also wrote detective thrillers, light comedies, novels based on cricket, and science fiction, to which he had been passionately devoted in his early teens. After several adult science fiction novels, he was asked to write for the young adult field, and ended up writing sixteen books in that genre, including The Guardians, The Lotus Caves, Dom and Va, Empty World, and the Sword and Fireball trilogies, as well as the Tripods trilogy. Following a BBC television series in 1984 based on the Tripods books, he wrote a prequel, When the Tripods Came, explaining how it all came about.

Sam Youd is a widower with five children and numerous grandchildren, and lives in Rye, in the county of Sussex, England.

Synopsis:

Three boys set out on a secret mission to penetrate the City of the Tripods and learn more about these strange beings that rule the earth.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0689855052
• ISBN 13: 9780689855054
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 180