Perhaps there was all sorts of meaning behind the duality of the various characters – the brothers Sawyer, discovering doppelgangers of Churchill and Hess, etc – but I put down this book pretty disappointed. Priest constructs a somewhat bland frame story for this novel, and then uses all manner o...
Ai confini della realtà (virtuale)“Esperienze estreme” (The Extremes) è un romanzo misconosciuto di un autore poco noto, benchè Christopher Priest abbia al suo attivo almeno un ottimo precedente (“Il mondo alla rovescia”) ed un curriculum di rilievo in campo cinematografico: da suoi romanzi sono ...
La afirmación'La afirmación', escrita por Christopher Priest en 1981, es una novela extraña con tantas lecturas posibles como lectores. Entretenida, pero lenta. Arriesgada, aunque muy convencional en el desarrollo de los personajes. Coherente en su desarrollo, y pese a todo nada predecible. En de...
"An illusion has three stages."First there is the setup, in which the nature of what might be attempted at is hinted at, or suggested, or explained. The apparatus is seen. volunteers from the audience sometimes participate in preparation. As the trick is being setup, the magician will make use of...
With “Inverted World” British science fiction writer Christopher Priest has written a work that is beautiful, powerful and profound. These are the words of critic, scholar and science fiction writer Adam Roberts. Equally important, at least for me as someone unacquainted with science fiction, is ...
Contents: The Equatorial Moment (1999) The Negation (1978) Whores (1978) The Cremation (1978) The Miraculous Cairn (1980) The Watched (1978)
I absolutely loved A Dream of Wessex. This book really sets the scene for Priest’s later work such as, The Affirmation and his ‘Dream Archipelago’ that would become a recurrent environment in his writing. A Dream of Wessex is brilliantly told and despite the science fiction aspect of the story, r...
I read this in the omnibus edition (with the wonderful A Dream of Wessex) that was done by the short-lived imprint Earthlight, 'way back when.As will be evident to all, I'm a great fan of Priest's work. I read this novel many years ago and, while I enjoyed it on its own terms, felt it to be the w...
A world where fantasy is more real than life itself.You are in a society where game designers are superstars and players can organically enter their favorite games. . . . A society where no one is more desired than Allegra Geller, the hip gaming goddess whose latest system, eXistenZ, takes a quan...
I was there at last, my old life abandoned, my new one before me. It was an escape, an ambition achieved, but I was not full of hope. I worried about everything and everyone I had left behind me. I missed my apartment and its view, even though I had exchanged the narrow vista of three islands for...
Fifty days’ sick-leave lay ahead, and my trouser pocket was heavy on my buttock with the high-denomination back-pay notes. It should have been a time for restful convalescence after the long spell in the military hospital, but I had been discharged too soon and I was still affected by the enemy’s...
I had left the noisy below-decks area after a difficult hour in the main saloon, surrounded by many seasick men, and trying to breathe the stuffy, smoke-thick air. I had just discovered that my rank, Lieutenant-Commander (Acting), came with privileges, one of which was that I could take refuge ou...
He estimated now that none of them stood more than five feet high, they talked more quickly than before, and the pitch of their voices was higher. None of them could get into the clothes. Lucia tried, but could not get her legs into the trousers, and split the sleeves of h...