Christopher Priest

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Christopher Priest

Christopher McKenzie Priest (born July 14, 1943 in Cheadle , Cheshire , now Greater Manchester ) is an English science fiction writer.

Life

Priest is the son of Walter Priest and Millicent Priest, née Haslock. Before Priest decided to become a freelance writer in 1968, he had made a living as an accountant for nine years. In 1966, his first SF story The Run appeared in Impulse magazine , and other stories followed, mostly in the British SF magazine New Worlds . In 1970 his debut novel Indoctrinaire was published . A collection of unpublished stories from the years 1963 to 1968 appeared in 2008 under the title Ersatz Wines - Instructive Short Stories , a collection of the early publications first appeared in 1973 in German as Transplantationen, in English 1974 as Real-Time World .

His first novels were more traditional science fiction, padded with unusual ideas. Inverted World (1974), for example, describes a city that has to keep moving like a gigantic train, because physical constants around the city are constantly changing. The novel Ein Traum von Wessex (1977) deals with a topic that is to be of central importance in all of the following novels: the question of reality, of how different people perceive reality and the connection between memory and reality.

Under the pseudonyms John Luther Novak and Colin Wedgelock , Priest also wrote novel versions based on film scripts, such as eXistenZ , Mona Lisa and Short Circuit .

His first wife Christine Merchant came from Germany. From 1981 to 1987 he was married to the American SF writer Lisa Tuttle . In his third marriage he was married to the author Leigh Kennedy until 2011 and lives in Hastings . His current partner is SF writer Nina Allan .

Awards

  • 1975: British Science Fiction Association Award for the novel Inverted World
  • 1977: Ditmar Award for the novel The Space Machine
  • 1980: British Science Fiction Association Award for Palely Loitering Spa History
  • 1982: Ditmar Award for the novel The Affirmation
  • 1988: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for The Glamor (German Der Schöne Schein ) as the best foreign novel
  • 1996: World Fantasy Award for the novel The Prestige
  • 1999: British Science Fiction Association Award for the novel The Extremes
  • 2001: Prix ​​Utopia for life's work
  • 2002: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for The Discharge (French: Retour au foyer ) as the best translated short story
  • 2003: Arthur C. Clarke Award for the novel The Separation
  • 2003: British Science Fiction Association Award for the novel The Separation
  • 2005: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for The Separation as best translated novel
  • 2012: British Science Fiction Association Award for the novel The Islanders
  • 2012: John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the novel The Islanders

bibliography

Dream Archipelago
  • An Infinite Summer (1976, short story)
  • The Cremation (1978, short story)
    • German: Cremation. In: The dream archipelago. 1987.
  • The Negation (1978, short story)
    • German: The negation. In: The dream archipelago. 1987.
  • The Watched (1978, short story)
    • German: The observed. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Venice 2. Heyne SF&F # 4199, 1985, ISBN 3-453-31174-4 .
  • Whores (1978, short story)
  • The Miraculous Cairn (1980, short story)
    • English: The wonderful stone mound. In: The dream archipelago. 1987.
  • The Affirmation (1981, novel)
  • The Glamor (1984, novel)
  • The Equatorial Moment (1999, short story)
  • The Dream Archipelago (1999, collection)
  • The Discharge (2001, short story)
  • The Trace of Him (2008, short story)
  • Fireflies (2008, short story)
  • The Islanders (2011, novel)
  • The Gradual (2016, novel)
Novels
  • Indoctrinaire (1970)
  • Fugue for a Darkening Island (1972)
  • (The) Inverted World (1974)
  • The Space Machine (1976)
  • The Perfect Lover (1977)
  • A Dream of Wessex (1977)
  • Mona Lisa (1986, as John Luther Novak)
  • Short Circuit (1986, as Colin Wedgelock)
  • The Quiet Woman (1990)
  • The Prestige (1995)
  • The Extremes (1998)
    • German: The Amok Loop. Translated by Usch Kiausch. Heyne SF&F # 6387, 2002, ISBN 3-453-19663-5 .
  • Existence (1999, based on the David Cronenberg film eXistenZ , as John Luther Novak)
    • German: EXistenZ. Translated by Almuth Heuner. Ullstein TB # 24746, 1999, ISBN 3-548-24746-6 .
  • The Separation (2002)
  • The Adjacent (2013)
Short story collections
  • Real-Time World (1974)
    • German: Transplantationen. Translated by Tony Westermayr. Goldmann Science Fiction # 165, 1973, ISBN 3-442-23165-5 .
  • Substitute Wines - Instructive Short Stories (2008)
Anthologies (as editor)
Non-fiction
  • The Book on the Edge of Forever: An Inquiry into the Non-Appearance of Harlan Ellison's the Last Dangerous Visions (1985, also as The Last Deadloss Visions , 1987)
  • Seize the Moment: Autobiography of Helen Sharman (1993, with Helen Sharman)
  • Running Tall (1994, with Sally Gunnell)
  • The Song of the Book (2000)
  • The Magic - The Story of a Film (2008)
  • "It" Came from Outer Space (2009)
Short stories
  • Going Native (1963)
  • Stranglehold (1964)
  • Star Child (1964)
  • The Witch Burners (1965)
  • Nicholson's Repentances (1965)
  • Combined Operation (1965)
  • The Ostrich Seed (1965)
  • The Run (1966)
  • Variant: The Run (1966)
  • Conjugation (1966)
  • Impasse (1967)
  • The Substitute Wine (1967)
  • Chance (1967)
  • The Interrogator (1968)
  • The Perihelion Man (1969)
  • Double Consummation (1970)
  • Breeding Ground (1970)
  • Nothing Like the Sun (1970)
  • Fire Storm (1970)
  • Real-Time World (1971)
  • Sentence in Binary Code (1971)
  • The Head and the Hand (1972)
  • The Inverted World (1973)
  • A Woman Naked (1974)
  • Transplant (1974)
  • The Invisible Men (1974)
  • Men of Good Value (1975)
  • The Agent (1979, with David Redd)
    • German: The agent. In: Herbert W. Franke (Ed.): SF international III. Goldmann Science Fiction # 23412, 1982, ISBN 3-442-23412-3 .
  • Palely Loitering (1979)
    • German: Grenzstreifzüge. In: Manfred Kluge (Hrsg.): Grenzstreifzüge. Heyne SF&F # 3792, 1981, ISBN 3-453-30694-5 .
  • The Making of the Lesbian Horse (1979)
  • The Affirmation (excerpt) (1981)
  • I, Haruspex (1998)
  • The Cage of Chrome (2000)
  • A Dying Fall (2006)
  • Widow's Weeds (2011)
  • The Stooge (2013)
  • Shooting an Episode (2017)

filming

His novel Das Kabinett des Magiers was filmed under the title Prestige - Masters of Magic in 2006 under the direction of Christopher Nolan with actors Hugh Jackman , Christian Bale , Michael Caine and David Bowie among others .

literature

biography
  • Nicholas Ruddick: Christopher Priest. Starmont House, Mercer Island, Washington 1990. New edition: Borgo Press, San Bernadino 1991, ISBN 1-55742-109-9 .
items
  • Frank Borsch : A conversation with Christopher Priest. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Das Science Fiction Jahr 1996. Heyne, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-453-09445-X , pp. 484-497.
  • Walter Udo Everlien: The beautiful appearance. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Das Science Fiction Jahr 1990. Heyne, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-453-03905-X , pp. 646–649.
  • Usch Kiausch, Sascha Mamczak: Science fiction as “literature of visionary realism”. A conversation with Christopher Priest. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): The Science Fiction Year 2002. Heyne, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-453-19674-0 , pp. 497-512.
  • Karsten Kruschel : The amok loop. In: Wolfgang Jeschke, Sascha Mamczak (Hrsg.): Das Science Fiction Jahr 2003. Heyne, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-453-87049-2 , pp. 684-686.
  • Christian Lautenschlag: The white room. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): The Science Fiction Year 1986. Heyne, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-453-31233-3 , pp. 577-579.
  • Nicholas Ruddick: Out of the Gernsbackian Slime: Christopher Priest's Abandonment of Science Fiction. In: Modern Fiction Studies Vol. 32, No. 1 (1986), pp. 43-52.
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personal data
SURNAME Priest, Christopher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Priest, Christopher McKenzie (full name); Priest, Chris (alternative spelling); Novak, John Luther (pseudonym); Wedgelock, Colin (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Cheadle , Cheshire, England