Even though he was 80, news of his death still comes as a shock. Not least for the man himself, but sadness because we’ll never be able to travel back to the islands… #christopherpriest
I first read Christopher Priest back in the 70s when I was a teenager. For me, Priest, Ballard and Moorcock were the new wave princes but I didn’t properly return to Priest’s work until about 5 years ago and the novel The Affirmation. A mind blowing revelation.
I made my way through all the Dream Archipelago stories, and even the lesser stories cast an uncanny spell on the reader. I had a couple of email exchanges with him and he was a charming and erudite correspondent.
Novelist Christopher Priest died yesterday. He could make reality slide out from underneath you like nobody else, always putting out deeply unsettling, provoking reads. He was one of very few writers I bought the *instant* his books came out. RIP.
RIP Christopher PRIEST https://t.co/5TRLvUt0lD whose death still in the midst of an active career that began 60 years ago is a bad loss to the field, to the conversation of books as a whole, and personally. He had a deep gift of friendship.
The Center for Post Natural History has work headed for the moon today on Peregrine 1. Absolutely thrilled for Rich Pell and @postnatural !
Listen to an interview with Rich on Uncanny Landscapes https://t.co/s07KXrapOc