Tripods
Digital
10/09/2006
Inspired by H.G. Wells and Samuel Yond.
The Tripods is a series of novels written by Samuel Yond (under the pen name "John Christopher") beginning in the late 1960s. The first two were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the UK in the 1980s.
The story of the Tripods is post-apocalyptic: Humanity has fallen into an age of social stagnation, with technology in decay, and the population living in a society reminiscent of the 1700s, or even the Middle Ages. The humans live in total, naive and ecstatic adoration of the "Tripods", huge metallic-looking alien creatures, which they see as their saviours. They are kept under thought control from the age of 13 by cranial implants called "caps", which leave them with a life of modesty and serenity by preventing curiosity and creativity, not to mention any traces of dissent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tripods