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Young Will Parker and his companions make a perilous journey toward an outpost of freedom where they hope to escape from the ruling Tripods, who capture mature human beings and make them docile, obedient servants.
This is the first book of the original Tripods trilogy written under the name John Christopher. These young adult science fiction stories are set on Earth ruled by the alien Tripods. A prequel detailing the conquest was added 20 years later.
John Christopher is a pseudonym of Sam Youd.
The series:
0.5 (Prequel) When the Tripods Came (1988)
1. The White Mountains (1967)
2. The City of Gold and Lead (1967)
3. The Pool of Fire (1968)
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young adult, Extraterrestrial beings, Freedom, aliens, teenagers, Fiction, Science fiction, Children's stories, Dystopias, Juvenile fiction, Science fiction., Children's fiction, Horror stories, England, fiction, France, fiction, Machinery, Machines, Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Dystopies, ExtraterrestresPeople
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The White Mountains
2003, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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0689855044 9780689855047
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The white mountains
1990, Trumpet Club
in English
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0440842921 9780440842927
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The White Mountains: The Tripods #1
September 1970, MacMillan Publishing Company
Paperback
in English
- 15th edition
0020427107 9780020427100
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"Apart from the one in the church tower, there were five clocks in the village that kept reasonable time, and my father owned one of them."
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