{"id":788,"date":"2012-02-08T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/?p=788"},"modified":"2012-02-07T20:58:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T01:58:51","slug":"samuel-youd-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/788\/samuel-youd-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Youd \u2014 RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"

The name Samuel Youd is not that most any\u00adone would imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly rec\u00adog\u00adnize. Even I did\u00adn\u2019t at first.<\/p>\n

How\u00adev\u00ader, his pseu\u00addo\u00adnym of John Christo\u00adpher<\/a> would be imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly rec\u00adog\u00adnized by SF fans any\u00adwhere. That was the name used for the author of a large num\u00adber of SF nov\u00adels, includ\u00ading the YA tril\u00ado\u00adgy known under the col\u00adlec\u00adtive name as the \u201cTripods\u201d.\u00c2 The Tripods<\/a><\/em> tril\u00ado\u00adgy (\u201cThe White Moun\u00adtains\u201d<\/em>, \u201cThe City of Gold and Lead\u201d<\/em>, and \u201cThe Pool of Fire\u201d<\/em>) was about an Earth that was con\u00adquered by aliens who moved about the world in almost \u201cWar of the Worlds\u201d<\/em> tripods. To con\u00adtrol the pop\u00adu\u00adlace, every\u00adone was \u201ccapped\u201d at the age of 14 with a met\u00adal device that main\u00adtained the aliens\u2019 con\u00adtrol over human\u00adi\u00adty. But not all human\u00adi\u00adty: an under\u00adground move\u00adment, employ\u00ading agents wear\u00ading fake \u201ccaps\u201d recruit\u00aded young men to act as under\u00adcov\u00ader agents, even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly able to infil\u00adtrate the alien base and pro\u00advide the infor\u00adma\u00adtion to restore humanity.<\/p>\n

There was also a pre\u00adquel nov\u00adel, \u201cWhen the Tripods Came\u201d<\/em>, pub\u00adlished in 1988, almost 20 years after the first pub\u00adli\u00adca\u00adtion of the first book of the tril\u00ado\u00adgy. This nov\u00adel final\u00adly dis\u00adclosed how the alien \u201cMas\u00adters\u201d first con\u00adquered the world: through a hyp\u00adnot\u00adic tele\u00advi\u00adsion pro\u00adgram called \u201cThe Trip\u00adpy Show\u201d<\/em> that reduced resis\u00adtance to the alien conquest.<\/p>\n

Samuel Youd\u2019s career was not lim\u00adit\u00aded to just these sto\u00adries: he was a pro\u00adlif\u00adic writer who used sev\u00ader\u00adal pseu\u00addo\u00adnyms as well as his own name. Oth\u00ader than the \u201cTripods\u201d<\/em> series, he is best remem\u00adbered for his post-apoc\u00ada\u00adlyp\u00adtic nov\u00adel The Death of Grass<\/a><\/em>, the sec\u00adond work pub\u00adlished under his John Christo\u00adpher pseu\u00addo\u00adnym, in 1956.<\/p>\n

Triv\u00adia:<\/em><\/p>\n