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UNITED KINGDOM AUTHOR · FICTION · SCIENCE FICTION

Christopher Priest

Also known as: Priest Christopher, Christopher. Priest

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Christopher Mackenzie Priest (14 July 1943 – 2 February 2024) was a British science fiction writer and novelist. His works include Fugue for a Darkening Island (1972), The Inverted World (1974), The Space Machine (1976), The Affirmation (1981), The Glamour (1984), The Prestige (1995), and The Separation (2002). Priest was strongly influenced by the science fiction of H. G. Wells and in 2006 was appointed Vice-President of the international H. G. Wells Society.

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It began on a train, heading north through England, although I was soon to discover that the story had really begun more than a hundred years earlier.

— from The Prestige, 1995

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The Prestige

1995

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Two 19th century stage illusionists, the aristocratic Rupert Angier and the working-class Alfred Borden, engage in a bitter and deadly feud; the effects are still being felt by their respective families a hundred years later. Working in the gaslight-and-velvet world of Victorian music halls, they prowl edgily in the background of each other's shadowy life, driven to the extremes by a deadly combination of obsessive secrecy and insatiable curiosity. At the heart of the row is an amazing illusion they both perform during their stage acts. The secret of the magic is simple, and the reader is in on it almost from the start, but to the antagonists the real mystery lies deeper. Both have something more to hide than the mere workings of a trick.

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Indoctrinaire

1970

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Deep in the Advanced Technique Concentration, Wentik created a mind-altering drug. Suddenly he is transported to the jungles of Brazil in the 22nd century and a world devastated by nuclear war and poison gas. Only South America survived but even here 'The Disturbances' create havoc. Can Wentik find a way back? For himself? And all of humanity?

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Your book of film-making

1974

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A guide to making amateur films with advice on equipment, scripts, shooting, splicing, and sound.

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