by John Christopher
With this prequel to 'The Tripods Trilogy' written twenty years later, John Christopher tries to rectify some of the issues apparent in the post-conquest world he'd created.First of all, we have a girl on the cover, which is a good start. Unfortunately, Christopher is tied to the world as he origina...
I recently rediscovered the "Tripod" books. This book is the prequel to the "Tripod" trilogy. "The White Mountains" was published in 1967, "City of Gold and Lead" in 1968, and the final in the trilogy "Pool of Fire" in 1968 also. "When the Tripods Came" was written in 1988, about 20 years after t...
Wow. Isn't it awesome rereading stuff from your childhood and realizing exactly where your irrational fears of alien mind control/world domination came from? D'awwww. (Also this is not my cover. Right ISBN, wrong publisher, wrong cover. Not that I'm completist or anything.)
Pointed this one out to my son - action from the first few pages. Good scifi - will have to read the trilogy soon.
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