@booklet {11215, title = {"Shooting an Episode"}, year = {2017}, note = {

Rpt. in his Episodes: Short Stories (London: Gollancz, 2019), 292-320, with notes \“Before\” on what led him to write the story (289-91) and \“After\” on its publication and some reflections on it (321-22).

}, month = {2017}, pages = {285-317}, publisher = {Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopia depicting a \“reality\” game that has taken over the entire society as seen through the eyes of someone working for the company producing the show. The stories are supposed to be predictions regarding the world fifty years after Orwell\’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Priest took his title from Orwell\’s \“Shooting the Elephant,\” a work that greatly influenced his own work.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, isbn = {9781907389580 978-1-4732000630 }, author = {Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024)}, editor = {George Sandison} } @booklet {9473, title = {The Adjacent}, year = {2013}, note = {

Rpt. London: Titan Books, 2014.\ 

}, month = {2013}, publisher = {Orion}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The complex novel operates on a number of different timelines, but it begins in a near-future dystopia of the Islamic Republic of Great Britain.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024)} } @booklet {10431, title = {The Dream Archipelago}, year = {1999}, note = {

Includes the first publication of \“The Equatorial Moment\” (1-6); \“The Negation\” (7-48) originally published in Anticipations. Ed. Christopher Priest (New York: Charles Scribner\’s Sons, 1978), 55-86; \“Whores\” (49-) originally published in New Dimensions 8. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Harper \& Row, 1978), 27-40; \“The Cremation\” (71-114) originally in Andromeda 3. Ed. Paul Weston (London: Futura, 1978); \“The Miraculous Cairn\” (115-85) originally published in New Terrors $\#$2. Ed. Ramsey Campbell (London: Pan, 1980), 11-55; and \“The Watched\” (186-264) originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy \& Science Fiction 54.4 (323) (April 1978): 124-60. Book rpt. London: Gollancz, 2009 with \“The Equatorial Moment\” (1-5); \“The Negation\” (6-44); \“Whores\” (45-65); \“The Miraculous Cairn\” (74-140); \“The Cremation\” (141-81); and \“The Watched\” (182-255-) and two additional stories, \“The Trace of Him\” (66-73) originally published in Interzone, no. 214 (February 2008): 36-38; and \“The Discharge\” (256-301) which was originally published in SciFiction www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted February 13, 2002. No longer available online, but it was rpt. in Science Fiction: The Best of 2002. Ed. Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber (Np: ibooks, 2003), 156-210.\ 

}, month = {1999}, publisher = {Earthlight}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The Dream Archipelago is made of thousands of islands in an ocean belt around the middle of a planet with a large continent to the north, with many countries regularly at war, wars that are fought on the continent to the south, which is sparsely populated. Various islanders tell stories, some eutopian, some dystopian, and some with elements of fantasy about their islands. Two further volumes are set in the Dream Archipelago. The first is The Islanders. London: Victor Gollancz, 2011, which as short descriptions of many islands. An excerpt from \“The Drone\” (150-87) was published as \“Fireflies.\” Celebration: An anthology of short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association. Ed. Ian Whates ([England]: New Con Press, 2008), 207-14. \“The Trace of Him\” is rpt. from his 2009 The Dream Archipelago retitled \“The Trace\” (235-43). The second is The Gradual. London: Gollancz, 2016; rpt. London: Titan Books, 2016, in which a composer, who is from a fascist dystopia, twice tours the Dream Archipelago.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024)} } @booklet {2942, title = {A Dream of Wessex}, year = {1977}, note = {

U.S. ed. as\ The Perfect Lover.\ New York: Charles Scribner\&$\#$39;s Sons, 1977.

}, month = {1977}, publisher = {Faber and Faber}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The novel presents a future (2135-37) after a series of earthquakes has destroyed much of Britain, and it is a Soviet state, generally presented neutrally. Wessex is an island off the coast that is a holiday resort where many of the rules of the mainland do not apply and, as a result, it attracts many tourists from the Islamic North America. The focus of the novel is on two individuals projected to the future Wessex from the mid-1980s who choose to stay there.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024)} } @booklet {9030, title = {Inverted World. A Novel}, year = {1974}, note = {

U.S. ed. New York: Harper \& Row, 1974. Rpt. without the subtitle New York: New York Review Books, 2008 with an \“Afterword\” by John Clute (315-22).\ 

}, month = {1974}, publisher = {Faber and Faber}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Primarily a science-oriented science fiction novel, but the social setting is an authoritarian, controlling dystopia.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024)} } @booklet {2502, title = {Fugue for a Darkening Island}, year = {1972}, note = {

U.S. ed. entitled\ Darkening Island. New York: Harper \& Row, 1972.

}, month = {1972}, publisher = {Faber \& Faber}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopia of racial war.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024)} } @booklet {2311, title = {Indoctrinaire}, year = {1970}, note = {

U.S. ed. New York: Harper \& Row, 1970. U.K. ed. rpt. London: New English Library, 1971. [Rev. ed.] London: Pan, 1979 with an \"Afterword\" by the author (191-92). Part originally published as \"The Interrogator.\"\ New Writings in S-F 15.\ Ed. [Edward] John Carnell (London: Dennis Dobson, 1969), 45-76.

}, month = {1970}, publisher = {Faber and Faber}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Anarchist eutopia set in Brazil 200 years in the future. There is no government. All simple decisions are left to individuals, but they are expected to consult on more complex ones, and there is a social hierarchy based on merit that may be consulted.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024)} }