This bravura four book series, the famous Tripod Trilogy and its prequel, has been in print for three decades. Now all four books are available for today's young readers in a four volume boxed set. Gripping, provocative science fiction.--Booklist.

 

This book is part of a book series called Tripods .

There are 656 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by Simon & Schuster .

Christopher Samuel Youd was a British writer best known for his science fiction published under the pseudonym John Christopher. His many novels include The Death of Grass and The Possessors. He won the Guardian Prize in 1971 and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1976, Youd also wrote under several other names including Stanley Winchester, Hilary Ford and Samuel Youd.