Extollager
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John Christopher died yesterday (Feb. 4).
http://sf-encyclopedia.com/news/john-christopher-(1922-2012)/
Like many of us, I suppose, I have read little of his work -- the famous Tripods trilogy; No Blade of Grass; and one other, a young-adult post-plague kind of story. I saved the issues of The Saturday Evening Post that serialized No Blade when they were discarded by a library! Imagine that very grim story appearing in magazines with covers like this (yes, one of the installments appeared in this issue):
Christopher (Sam Youd) wrote a fine short article for the much-missed excellent London-based magazine Encounter, about C. S. Lewis and his wife, whom he knew. He knew her better than Lewis, I think, because Christopher and she were involved in London sf circles.
http://sf-encyclopedia.com/news/john-christopher-(1922-2012)/
Like many of us, I suppose, I have read little of his work -- the famous Tripods trilogy; No Blade of Grass; and one other, a young-adult post-plague kind of story. I saved the issues of The Saturday Evening Post that serialized No Blade when they were discarded by a library! Imagine that very grim story appearing in magazines with covers like this (yes, one of the installments appeared in this issue):
Christopher (Sam Youd) wrote a fine short article for the much-missed excellent London-based magazine Encounter, about C. S. Lewis and his wife, whom he knew. He knew her better than Lewis, I think, because Christopher and she were involved in London sf circles.