The Tripods

The Tripods, or three legs. is a series of fantasy novels written by Samuel Youd on under his pseudonym John Christopher in the 1960s. The first two books formed the basis for a science fiction television seriesof the same name, made in Great Britain in the 1980s by the BBC.

The Tripods trilogy with the parts The White Mountains (1967), The Tripods The City of Gold and Lead (1967) and The Tripods The Pool of Fire (1968) translated the Dutch under the individual titles are in the White Mountains, The city of gold and lead and the Lake of fire Van Holkema & Warendorf all issued by.



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[hide] *1 Background  ==Background[ Edit] == The tripod (Tripod in English) in h. g. Wells. The Tripods is clearly based on H.G. Wells ' work. This children's books by John Christopher show a kind of alternate ending on The War of The Worlds by h. g. Wells, in which the three legs have won and now about the world prevail. This form of literature is also known under the terms post-apocalyptic fiction and invasion literature.
 * 2 plot
 * 2.1 the White Mountains
 * 2.2 The city of gold and lead
 * 2.3 the Lake of fire
 * 3 Bibliography
 * 4 external links

Youd's tripods are, however, other than the three legs in Wells ' book. So they come not from Mars but from a far away planet. Furthermore, these three legs no weapons, but are used to people in the power of the aliens through a "helmet", a metal device that every human being from the 14th year on the head gets mounted. Twenty years later he wrote the prequel When the Tripods Came, not in the Dutch translation, in which he shows how the Tripods took power. It is ironic reference to the already mentioned BBC series in the sense "Talk got round to the Trippy Show, and I noticed the difference in reactions, some saying it was lousy and others raving about it.", in the book referring to an animated series on the television by the Tripods was used to mentally manipulate people (already in the second and also the lastfilmed, book of the trilogy, is never mentioned that the Tripods originally took power by brainwashing through television broadcasts).

One of the criticisms of the book is Wordcandy, according to a review[1]  the lack of women in the book. The reviewer indicates that the writer gives the following statement. The book is according to the writer a war story and according to the writer are girls less warlike than boys. In addition, be that in the sixties that girls read books but not the other way around though guys leaving no pressure from outside was to include important female characters. ==Brief contents[ Edit] == Read warning: text below contains details about the content and/or the end of the story.===The White Mountains[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The people were happy since the three legs dominated the Earth. About the old times, the black Century full of murders, was rarely spoken, no one would ever venture to the ruins of the large cities to go. All of this was the blessing of the steel net, that everyone from the age of 14 years on the head bore. A ceremony under the name Helmdag in which you're in one of the towering three legs was lifted off made you to mature. The largest election was to be the servant of the three legs in their domed city to work. Will Parker, one of the main characters, however, has his doubts. Will meet people who have seen the chance to continue the ongehelmd. This ongehelmden think very differently about the happiness of mankind. They form an underground movement and have their headquarters in the White Mountains. ===The city of gold and lead<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In this part makes the young Will Parker from the first part of the underground movement of ongehelmden. The underground movement preparing to liberate humanity from the huge three-legged which dominate the mankind for many years. Deep into the secret is he Will get a heavy workout and together with some other young people sent out to the three-legged in their overarching cities to spy on. They are trying to figure out what exactly these three legs are and what happens to the hundreds of gehelmden be included in the domed cities chosen and never returned. Will and his friend Fritz know after a difficult and difficult hike full of dangers on artful way the city of gold and lead within to come in and do this terrible discoveries.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Gold in the title refers to the predominant color of the gold city of the masters and lead to the artificial gravity what at the human slaves feels like lead. ===The Lake of fire<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A large spaceship of the masters is on its way to the Earth's atmosphere to make suitable for these invaders from the universe. Also all human life will be destroyed. For the underground movement that the world of ubiquitous space monsters want to redeem beginning. In the headquarters of the underground movement one searches diligently to a means to disable the so-called Masters. To this end, such a reptile like creature captured, which is possible only by the spoils of a tripod. Will Parker know along with a team of specialists this perilous enterprise to a successful conclusion. But the matter is far from settled! The fight will start theirs only a long road full of dangers.

<p lang="en" len="162" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Lake of fire the title refers to the mysterious power source of the cities of the masters which are a crucial element in the attack on the first city. ==Bibliography<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * The White Mountains, 1972, Publisher: Van Holkema & Warendorf, 125 p., ISBN 90-269-1941-7, reissue 1983 ISBN 90-269-1223-4, translation of The Tripods-The White Mountains (1967)
 * The city of gold and lead, 1972, Publisher: Van Holkema & Warendorf, 139 pp., ISBN 90-269-1942-5, reissue 1983 ISBN 90-269-1225-0, translation of The Tripods-The City of Gold and Lead (1967)
 * 1972, the Lake of fire Publisher: Van Holkema & Warendorf, 136 pp., ISBN 90-269-1943-3, reissue 1983 ISBN 90-269-1224-2, translation of The Tripods-The Pool of Fire (1968)