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Post by RustiSwordz on Feb 5, 2005 17:47:51 GMT
I found this... Can anyone shed more light on it?  from what i can make out it was a prequel story... |
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Post by Anthony on Feb 5, 2005 18:03:54 GMT
Errm i seen it before and yeah its a prequel so its kind of like a -1 book. It would'nt be in the tripods trilogy though, because the tripods trilogy centers on 3 characters journey to destroy the tripods. That 'When the tripods came' was made as just as a prequel, kind of backstory to the 'Tripods trilogy'. Like what 'The Hobbit' is to 'The Lord of the Rings' if you catch my drift.
But then again i havnt read that book so i wouldnt no for certain.
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Post by Bayne on Feb 5, 2005 23:34:26 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]I heard it was written about the time the series was on tv. I wouldn't mind getting my hands on a copy.
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Post by themotile on Feb 6, 2005 6:41:48 GMT
Ahh Rusti, this is a gem, I had this book with that exact cover design.
It starts with a single triopod at a farm, the air force blow it up easily enough, in it they find a bunch of guys with disected heads. They are figuring out the caps...
The masters in huge ships are in orbit and are sending subliminal messages through our T.V.s
Every one is hypnotised, those who arnt either run to the white mountains to become the freemen of the original trylogy or are hunted and exterminated when the tripods arrive.
the cities are bombarded from orbit and the world is re set to an earlier time with all the capped peoples happy in their new life serving the tripods and the masters within.
This book was written for children so in parts is a little patronising, simple and lacks any real punch but it does set up the trilogy nicely.
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Post by paco417 on Feb 6, 2005 15:36:31 GMT
I found this... Can anyone shed more light on it? from what i can make out it was a prequel story... this book is what happened leading up to the "masters" invasion. yep a prequel! i have read it and it's not bad at all |
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Post by Killraven on Feb 8, 2005 21:14:35 GMT
And I still have this book!  I picked it up on eBay about a year ago for a quid...  Not bad at all, but quite short. It's the one where the martians come down and hypnotise everyone through their TV sets so they all go out and stand in fields like lemons, in a trance, waiting to be capped... ..standing in fields in a trance...?? Obviously the author was a regular ravegoer!!!  |
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Post by Killraven on Feb 8, 2005 21:16:00 GMT
And I still have this book! I picked it up on eBay about a year ago for a quid... Not bad at all, but quite short. It's the one where the martians come down and hypnotise everyone through their TV sets so they all go out and stand in fields like lemons, in a trance, waiting to be capped... ..standing in fields in a trance...?? Obviously the author was a regular ravegoer!!! |
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Post by paco417 on Feb 8, 2005 22:55:00 GMT
And I still have this book! I picked it up on eBay about a year ago for a quid... Not bad at all, but quite short. It's the one where the martians come down and hypnotise everyone through their TV sets so they all go out and stand in fields like lemons, in a trance, waiting to be capped... ..standing in fields in a trance...?? Obviously the author was a regular ravegoer!!! Sorry to inform you but the "Masters" did not come from Mars! i don't think in the books it states where they originated from, but i do know that it took hundreds of years to get to earth in the first place? John Christopher was a Big fan of HG Wells just like Jeff Wayne. Hence the Tripod & invasion connection. |
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Post by CPP on Feb 9, 2005 3:47:21 GMT
Hey- speaking of other books... I remember as a kid (after reading the original) I read some WOTW sequel where Thomas Edison (!) sends a fleet of "electric warships" to kick some Marsheeun A**... anybody remember this book? I think I even thought it was lame then.
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Post by Killraven on Feb 11, 2005 18:40:59 GMT
Sorry to inform you but the "Masters" did not come from Mars! i don't think in the books it states where they originated from, but i do know that it took hundreds of years to get to earth in the first place? John Christopher was a Big fan of HG Wells just like Jeff Wayne. Hence the Tripod & invasion connection. Yeah, you're right  Sorry, that was a mis-type - I should always double check things I post! |
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Post by KDF on Feb 13, 2005 3:33:06 GMT
I used to work in a library and was suprised when that 4th Tripod book turned up..I was a big fan of the first 3 years back (think my oldest sister had them first in the 70s), and then the TV adaptation.
The edition we had sported a different cover showing RAF jets attacking a Tripod..was pretty neat.
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Post by themotile on Feb 13, 2005 5:39:16 GMT
The coming of the tripods was written for kids at the request of the BBC, pitty realy it could have been so much more, it just doesnt go far enough, think about it the masters reduce the population by some 4 billion people, thats a lot of death and one hell of a war.
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Sorry, that was a mis-type - I should always double check things I post! 