Christopher Priest (novelist)

Christopher McKenzie Priest (actually John Luther Novak; * July 14, 1943 in Cheadle, Cheshire, now in Greater Manchester ) is an English science fiction writer. His first wife Christine came from Germany. He was married from 1981 to 1987 in second marriage with the American SF writer Lisa Tuttle. In his third marriage, he is married to the writer Leigh Kennedy and lives in Hastings.

Life

Priest published his first short story in 1966 and four years later his first novel. Under the name John Luther Novak and Colin Wedgelock he also wrote novels for movie screenplays that have appeared as a " book of the film " as eXistenZ, Mona Lisa and Short Circuit.

His first novels were more traditional science fiction, lined with unusual ideas. Inverted World ( 1974) for example, describes a city that always has to keep moving like a giant train that because physical constants around the city around constantly changing. The novel A Dream of Wessex (1977 ) dealt with a subject that should be in all subsequent novels of central importance: the question of the reality, according to the different perception of reality by different people and the relationship between memory and reality.

Christopher Priest won five times the BSFA Award for the novel Inverted World ( 1974), The Extremes ( 1998), The Separation (2002) and The Islanders (2011) and 1980 for his story palely loitering ( German: border forays ). To this end, he won the World Fantasy Award for The Prestige ( 1995) and the Kurd - Laßwitz Prize for The Glamour ( German: The beautiful appearance, 1987)

Works

Novels

  • Back to the Future. 1971, ISBN 3-442-23133-7, Indoctrinaire. In 1970.
  • Black explosion. 1973, ISBN 3-442-23154- X, Fugue for a Darkening Iceland. In 1972.
  • The city. 1976, ISBN 3-453-30368-7, also: the steep horizon Heyne, München 1984 (The) Inverted World. In 1974.
  • Sir William's machine. 1977, ISBN 3-453-30433-0, The Space Machine. In 1976.
  • The Perfect Lover. In 1977.
  • A Dream of Wessex. 1979, ISBN 3-453-30543-4, A Dream of Wessex. In 1977.
  • The white space. 1984, ISBN 3-453-31037-3, The affirmation. In 1981.
  • The beautiful appearance. 1987, ISBN 3-453-00427-2, The glamor. In 1984.
  • The silent woman. 1991, ISBN 3-453-05019-3, The Quiet Woman. In 1990.
  • The Cabinet of the magician. 1997, ISBN 3-453-52211-7, The Prestige. In 1995. Prestige: The Master of Magic. Revised edition, Heyne, München 2007, ISBN 978-3-453-52211-4.

Short story collections

  • Transplants. 1973, ISBN 3-442-23165-5, Real - Time World. In 1974.
  • The Dream Archipelago. 1987, ISBN 3-453-21350-5, The Dream Archipelago. In 1999.

In fact, both volumes first appeared on German

As editor

Non-fiction

  • The Book on the Edge of Forever: An Enquiry into the Non - Appearance of Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions the load. In 1985.
  • The Last Dead Loss Visions. In 1987.

Filming

His novel, The Cabinet of the magician was established in 2006 under the direction of Christopher Nolan, among other things with the actors Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine and David Bowie under the title Prestige - filmed Master of Magic.

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