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Showing posts with label John Christopher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Christopher. Show all posts
Wednesday, 30 July 2025

Honest politicians really are doomed!

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T his is another post in the topical series that features alarming and pessimistic politics-related quotations. T hese words from Taylor Cal...
Thursday, 9 May 2024

Three writers' words on two kinds of pain

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E xtracts from L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery's Green Gables letters  have appeared in several articles in the past.  E phraim  Weber, th...
Monday, 5 April 2021

A last look at John Christopher’s Guardians

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T his is the final article in the series inspired by The Guardians, John Christopher’s dystopian science fiction novel. The young hero Rob ...
Monday, 11 January 2021

John Christopher’s Guardians: Part V

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T his article in the series inspired by John Christopher’s Guardians is mainly about some minor connections and a major influence that I de...
Friday, 11 December 2020

John Christopher’s Guardians: Part IV

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O ne criticism I have of The Guardians is that it ends just when the most interesting and exciting part of the story is about to start. Per...
Wednesday, 2 December 2020

John Christopher’s Guardians: Part III

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R ob Randall learns to cope quite well with life at his new school, but then some unexpected problems arise in the form of his friend and sc...
Wednesday, 11 November 2020

John Christopher’s Guardians: Part II

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J ust like Elizabeth Goudge’s Linnets and Valerians , John Christopher’s Guardians is a slender little children’s paperback that at first s...
Wednesday, 4 November 2020

John Christopher’s Guardians: Part I

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The Guardians by John Christopher is a dystopian science fiction novel that was first published in 1970. Just like Michael de Larrabeiti’s ...