The second world war started at almost the same time as he left school, interrupting his writing career. After his family moved to Hampshire, he went to the Peter Symonds school in Winchester the area was often described in his novels. He was born Sam Youd in the village of Knowsley, near Liverpool. John Christopher, right, with Brian Aldiss, left, and Christopher Piest, centre.
In the mid-80s, the Tripods books inspired a popular BBC TV series. This was especially true in the US, where his books became perennial library favourites, and are still standard reading in many schools. The success of these books created a new career for the author, who for several years afterwards was recognised as a leading writer for older children. In the end, the results they achieve are not entirely what they expected. A group of adolescents, not yet fitted with a mentally controlling "cap", bravely confront the menace of the Tripods. As a result, our world has reverted to a low-technology state, almost medieval in nature. The books (published in 1967-68) depict a world suffering under the control of aliens from a far star, who can survive in the Earth's inimical atmosphere only by moving around in deadly tripodal machines inside which their own atmosphere can be replicated. The science-fiction author John Christopher, who has died aged 89, was perhaps best known for the Tripods trilogy for young adults.
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