Christopher Priest






Christopher Priest

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born
July 14, 1943

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Cheadle, England, The United Kingdom

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avg rating: 3.74 | 2,199 ratings | 435 reviews | 38 distinct works | 13 fans
The Prestige The Prestige
by Christopher Priest
avg rating 3.76 — 1,454 ratings — published 1995
28 editions
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The Inverted World: A Novel The Inverted World: A Novel
by Christopher Priest
avg rating 3.78 — 113 ratings — published 1974
14 editions
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The Glamour The Glamour
by Christopher Priest
avg rating 3.73 — 48 ratings — published 1984
12 editions
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The Separation The Separation
by Christopher Priest
avg rating 3.74 — 47 ratings — published 2002
11 editions
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The Affirmation The Affirmation
by Christopher Priest
avg rating 3.97 — 30 ratings — published 1981
12 editions
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The Extremes The Extremes
by Christopher Priest
avg rating 3.05 — 22 ratings — published 1998
12 editions
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A Dream of Wessex A Dream of Wessex
by Christopher Priest
avg rating 3.82 — 11 ratings — published 1977
8 editions
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The Quiet Woman The Quiet Woman
by Christopher Priest
avg rating 2.92 — 13 ratings — published 1990
5 editions
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An Infinite Summer An Infinite Summer
by Christopher Priest
avg rating 3.67 — 9 ratings — published 1979
5 editions
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The Space Machine The Space Machine
by Christopher Priest
avg rating 3.44 — 9 ratings — published 1976
7 editions
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"Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't. The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige"."
Christopher Priest (The Prestige Movie Tie In)
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"'Beyond the city...' That meant I would leave the city, venture as an apprentice into the very regions which had been forbidden me, and were even yet forbidden to most of those in the city. The creche was full of rumours about what lay outside the city, and already I had any number of wild imaginings about it. I was sensible enough to realize that the reality could never equal those rumours for inventiveness, but even so the prospect was one that dazzled and appalled me. The cloak of secrecy that the guildsmen placed around it seemed to imply that something dreadful was beyond the walls of the city; so dreadful that a penalty of death was the price paid for revealing its nature."
Christopher Priest (Inverted World)
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