A Dream of Wessex by Christopher Priest Written in 1977, Christopher Priest’s A Dream of Wessex stands at the midpoint of media questioning reality. Falling on the tail end of Philip Dick and his oeuvre’s continual exploration of metaphysical meaning, A Dream of Wessex is also an (unheralded) fore-runner to science fiction featuring uncertain realities that followed in […]
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The Affirmation by Christopher Priest I’ve heard Christopher Priest’s 1981 novel The Affirmation described as regressive, an ouroboros eating its own tail, a Moeibus strip. While there is undoubtedly an M.C. Escher quality to the book — a blurring of reality — the beginning and end are simply too different to form a contiguous whole […]
Read MoreJesse Hudson´s rating: 4.5 | Christopher Priest | Edge, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
The Prestige by Christopher Priest I was drawn to Christopher Priest’s novel after having watched and enjoyed the Nolan brothers’ film adaptation of The Prestige. Going into the reading, I knew that several plot twists would be spotted a mile away, but the film is sufficiently different from its source material that Priest’s work contains […]
Read MoreRebecca Fisher´s rating: 4 | Christopher Priest | Stand-Alone, World Fantasy Award | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
The September/October 2013 issue of Interzone opens with “Ad Astra” by Carole Johnstone. A married couple has been sent together to the explore the solar system, all the way out to Pluto and back. After years of travel together with only each other for company, they barely speak to each other, though they still have […]
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