Ebook {Epub PDF} The Death of Grass by John Christopher

From Decades (Sam Youd) The starting point for The Death of Grass was a novel by Ward Moore, Greener than You Think, in which the planet is swamped by a new variety of grass which grows everywhere and unstoppably, suffocating civilization in a blanket of green. I pondered an opposing speculation: what if a virus should emerge which attacked and eventually destroyed the Gramineae . THE DEATH OF GRASS By JOHN CHRISTOPHER € € First published by Michael Joseph Published in Penguin Books Reprinted , € € PRODROME € As sometimes happens, death healed a family breach. When Hilda Custance was widowed in the early summer of , she wrote, for the first time since her marriage thirteen years before, to her father. The Death of Grass was one of Christopher's early successes, and it's bit of a pioneer in the world of post-apocalyptic fiction. The plot revolves around a virus that destroys all grass-related pla/5().

Christopher Samuel Youd was a British writer best known for his science fiction published under the pseudonym John Christopher. His many novels include The Death of Grass and The bltadwin.ru won the Guardian Prize in and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in , Youd also wrote under several other names including Stanley Winchester, Hilary Ford and Samuel Youd. Free download or read online The Death of Grass pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in , and was written by John Christopher. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this science fiction, fiction story are. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for DEATH OF GRASS By John Christopher at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

The Death of Grass (published in the United States both in book form, and serialized in The Saturday Evening Post, as No Blade of Grass) is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel written by the English author Sam Youd under the pen name John Christopher. The plot concerns a virus that kills off all forms of grass, including rice and wheat. He is perhaps best known as John Christopher, author of the seminal work of speculative fiction, The Death of Grass, and a stream of novels in the genre he pioneered, YA dystopian fiction, beginning with The Tripods Trilogy. Christopher Samuel Youd was a British writer best known for his science fiction published under the pseudonym John Christopher. His many novels include The Death of Grass and The Possessors. He won the Guardian Prize in and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in , Youd also wrote under several other names including Stanley Winchester, Hilary Ford and Samuel Youd.