An important ecological novel. It was first published in Cavalier magazine in May 1976.. You can pose questions to the Goodreads community with Reader Q&A, or ask your favorite author a question with Ask the Author. John Christopher (Author) Christopher Samuel Youd was a British writer best known for his science fiction published under the pseudonym John Christopher. During the American Civil War, he volunteered as a nurse. Like all novels of the genre, The Death of Grass' overiding theme is that civilisation is a thin veneer that will be peeled away as soon as the electricity goes out and the tap water runs dry, and there are many conversations to this effect. Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Grass is the key symbol of this epic poem, suggests the divinity of common things. "Weeds" (also known as "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill") is a short story by Stephen King. Grass Roots book. "The Death of the Author" (French: La mort de l'auteur) is a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes (1915–1980). Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death. Although the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing and re-writing Leaves of Grass, revising it multiple times until his death. Nature is an emblem of God, for God’s eternal presence in it is evident everywhere. The Death of Grass is a classic post-apocalyptic tale of a world without grass. At first the virus wiping out grass and crops is … Written in 1956 - just as the post-apocalyptic genre started to gain ground, created by the British author Samuel Youd - under the pen name John Christopher. Walt Whitman Death , Night , Lovely “At my guess, the Emergency Committee’s a triumvirate, and composed of a professional anarchist, a parson, and a left-wing female schoolteacher. SF Scope has reported that Christopher Samuel Youd, who wrote SF as John Christopher, died on 3 February 2012.. SIGNED by the author on a bookplate laid in. Günter Wilhelm Grass (German: [ˈɡʏntɐ ˈɡʁas]; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.. All that said, Death of Grass is a thought-provoking book, well ahead of its time (and it comes with an excellent foreword). Sam Youd (16 April 1922 – 3 February 2012), known professionally as Christopher Samuel Youd, was a British writer, best known for science fiction under the pseudonym John Christopher, including the novels The Death of Grass, The Possessors, and the young-adult novel series The Tripods.