Christopher Priest's novels have built him an inimitable dual reputation as a contemporary literary novelist and a leading figure in modern SF and fantasy. His novel THE PRESTIGE is unique in winning both a major literary prize (THE JAMES TAIT BLACK AWARD and a major genre prize THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD); THE SEPARATION won both the ARTHUR C. CLARKE and the BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION AWARDS. THE ISLANDERS won both the BSFA and John W. Campbell awards. He was selected for the original BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS in 1983.
Awards: Campbell (2012), BSFA (2011), Clarke (2003), WFA (1996) see all
Genres: Science Fiction, Historical Mystery, Literary Fiction, Fantasy
Novels
Indoctrinaire (1970)
Fugue for a Darkening Island (1972)
Inverted World (1974)
The Space Machine (1976)
A Dream of Wessex (1977)
The Perfect Lover (1977)
The Affirmation (1981)
The Glamour (1984)
Mona Lisa (1986) (as by John Luther Novak)
Short Circuit (1986) (as by Colin Wedgelock)
The Quiet Woman (1990)
The Prestige (1995)
The Extremes (1998)
Existenz (1999) (as by John Luther Novak)
The Separation (2002)
The Islanders (2011)
The Adjacent (2013)
The Gradual (2016)
An American Story (2018)
The Evidence (2020)
Expect Me Tomorrow (2022)
Airside (2023)
Fugue for a Darkening Island (1972)
Inverted World (1974)
The Space Machine (1976)
A Dream of Wessex (1977)
The Perfect Lover (1977)
The Affirmation (1981)
The Glamour (1984)
Mona Lisa (1986) (as by John Luther Novak)
Short Circuit (1986) (as by Colin Wedgelock)
The Quiet Woman (1990)
The Prestige (1995)
The Extremes (1998)
Existenz (1999) (as by John Luther Novak)
The Separation (2002)
The Islanders (2011)
The Adjacent (2013)
The Gradual (2016)
An American Story (2018)
The Evidence (2020)
Expect Me Tomorrow (2022)
Airside (2023)
Collections
Real-time world (1974)
An Infinite Summer (1979)
The Dream Archipelago (1999)
Ersatz Wines (2008)
Real-Time World +2 (2008)
Episodes (2019)
An Infinite Summer (1979)
The Dream Archipelago (1999)
Ersatz Wines (2008)
Real-Time World +2 (2008)
Episodes (2019)
Anthologies edited
Non fiction show
Omnibus editions show
Books containing stories by Christopher Priest
The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories (2016)
(Valancourt Book of Horror Stories, book 1)
edited by
Ryan Cagle and James D Jenkins
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Christopher Priest recommends
Witchwater Country (1986)
Garry Kilworth
"[His] finest novel to date, a book about growing up in semi-rural England. A novel with shifting levels of alienness and normality, it dwells on the macabre internal world of adolescence while reminding us of its ordinariness."
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