![]() ![]() Some people have travelled a bit and seen the ruins of the big cities which ‘the ancients’ lived in in the Old Times, but everyone is taught they were the Dark Times, the world was overpopulated, people starved and dropped like flies due to diseases. There is no technology beyond carthorses and horse-drawn agriculture. ![]() ![]() Humans have been reduced to serfs in a recreation of the medieval feudal system. It is some time in the future and the mysterious tripods, metal hubs standing on three 60-foot-high legs, have conquered the earth. ![]() I wonder if it had anything to do with the way one of his most recent novels, A Wrinkle In The Skin, rather movingly captures the close relationship between a man and an orphaned 11-year-old boy.Īnyway, the first fruit of this new direction in Christopher’s writing was The White Mountain, the first novel in what turned into a science fiction trilogy for teenagers, titled The Tripods. Twelve years and 28 novels into his career as a prolific author of science fiction and miscellaneous adult novels, Christopher’s publisher suggested he try writing novels for teenagers. ![]()
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