--- product_id: 6706996 title: "The Tripods Collection (Boxed Set): The White Mountains; The City of Gold and Lead; The Pool of Fire; When the Tripods Came" price: "R1932" currency: ZAR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/6706996-the-tripods-collection-boxed-set-the-white-mountains-the-city store_origin: ZA region: South Africa --- # The Tripods Collection (Boxed Set): The White Mountains; The City of Gold and Lead; The Pool of Fire; When the Tripods Came **Price:** R1932 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Tripods Collection (Boxed Set): The White Mountains; The City of Gold and Lead; The Pool of Fire; When the Tripods Came - **How much does it cost?** R1932 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.za](https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/6706996-the-tripods-collection-boxed-set-the-white-mountains-the-city) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The Tripods’ rule is complete: the classic alien trilogy and its prequel are now available in a collectible paperback boxed set. In Will’s world, everything is controlled by the Tripods—huge, three-legged machines that descended upon Earth long ago. Most people unquestioningly accept the Tripods’ power, but Will is not most people. Journey with him in this collection of all four books in John Christopher’s beloved classic sci-fi dystopian series, now available as a paperback boxed set. Includes: The White Mountains The City of Gold and Lead The Pool of Fire When the Tripods Came Review: Still holds up decades later - Read these as a kid and they stuck with me, so I grabbed the boxed set to revisit. They absolutely still hold up. John Christopher built a YA sci-fi world that’s lean, eerie, and takes its young readers seriously — three-legged alien machines rule the Earth, humans are kept docile by mind-control “Caps” placed on them at adolescence, and a small group of kids decides to fight back. Great gift for a young aspiring reader Review: Great collectors series of all the tripods - Love the books and this is a perfect collectors edition of the whole series! So happy I got this! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #44,442 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #35 in Children's Dystopian Science Fiction Books #2,086 in Children's Action & Adventure Books (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 561 Reviews | ## Images ![The Tripods Collection (Boxed Set): The White Mountains; The City of Gold and Lead; The Pool of Fire; When the Tripods Came - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71F2iQxAzzL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Still holds up decades later *by M***M on May 24, 2026* Read these as a kid and they stuck with me, so I grabbed the boxed set to revisit. They absolutely still hold up. John Christopher built a YA sci-fi world that’s lean, eerie, and takes its young readers seriously — three-legged alien machines rule the Earth, humans are kept docile by mind-control “Caps” placed on them at adolescence, and a small group of kids decides to fight back. Great gift for a young aspiring reader ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great collectors series of all the tripods *by T***S on October 23, 2025* Love the books and this is a perfect collectors edition of the whole series! So happy I got this! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Classic Young Adult SF *by C***H on April 30, 2017* (Note: This is a review of the first three books in the set.) After writing a series of "Broken Earth" genre novels in the Fifties and Sixties, of which the most famous is probably "No Blade of Grass", British author John Christopher turned his hand to these novels for young adults. Wildly popular when first published, beginning in 1967, the first two books were even made into a BBC series. The first three books are set in a post-alien-invasion Europe, after the mysterious conquerors of Earth have erased technological civilization and forced humanity back into a pre-industrial agrarian state. In the first book, the aliens themselves are never seen in the flesh, just striding across the country in their huge Tripod machines. To keep us subjugated, the aliens cleverly co-opt the tradition of a rite of passage to fit each adolescent human -- they have to wait until the subject's skull has attained roughly adult dimensions -- with a mind-control device, a fine silver-mesh Cap which becomes a part of the victim. The narrator runs away on the eve of his Capping ceremony and sets out on a perilous journey across the Channel to join the resistance in their Alpine base, and ultimately take an important part in the final struggle to stop the aliens before they can "xenoform" the Earth's atmosphere into a lethal facsimile of their home planet. The fourth book is a prequel, set during the days of the invasion. One of the best things about the original trilogy is the way its main protagonist starts out as headstrong, selfish and rather unlikeable, but matures over time, through hard experience. I also enjoy its echoes of Wells' "War of the Worlds", some obvious, like the eponymous Tripods, and some not so obvious. Although in this case the ETs originate from outside our solar system. The main problem with the trilogy is a common one for novels published at a time when "juvie" SF was -- with a few exceptions like Madeline L'Engle and Andre Norton -- pretty much exclusively written for a male audience. So there's something of a dearth of female characters, much less strong ones. Nevertheless, these are gripping reads, well-plotted, with plenty to say about friendship, self-sacrifice and the truest kinds of heroism. Ever since I first encountered the series back in the mid-1970s, I re-read them every decade or so, for fun. I've also made it kind of a personal mission to introduce young readers in my family to Christopher's Tripod series. They deserve not to be forgotten, so it was great to be able to purchase new editions for a great-nephew, instead of having to hunt down the old Colliers paperbacks. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Tripods Collection (Boxed Set): The White Mountains; The City of Gold and Lead; The Pool of Fire; When the Tripods Came - Tripods: The Complete Series 1 & 2 [DVD] --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/6706996-the-tripods-collection-boxed-set-the-white-mountains-the-city](https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/6706996-the-tripods-collection-boxed-set-the-white-mountains-the-city) --- *Product available on Desertcart South Africa* *Store origin: ZA* *Last updated: 2026-10-10*