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  • The Prestige

    The literary masterpiece about a feud that spans generations

    by Christopher Priest ...
    Series Book 42 - S.F. MASTERWORKS
    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 ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Inverted World

    by Christopher Priest, John Clute ...
    Featured in Science Fiction: The Best 100 NovelsWinner of the British Science Fiction AwardNominated for the Hugo AwardThe “devilishly entertaining” masterpiece of hard science fiction, set in a city moving through a strange, dystopian world—from the multi-award-winning author of The Prestige (Time Out New York)The city is winched along tracks through a devastated la... ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • A Dream of Wessex

    by Christopher Priest ...
    The western democracies are disintegrating, scarred by violence and gripped with fear of terrorist attacks. Trying to find solutions to today's problems, Julia Stretton and other specialists at the Wessex Project have created a virtual reality projection of a utopian future where all current issues have been resolved - how did they achieve it? But on entering Wessex, they lose all memory of their ... Read more

    $12.35 CAD

  • The Glamour

    by Christopher Priest ...
    Cameraman Richard Grey's memory has blanked out the few weeks before he was injured in a car bomb explosion. When he is visited by a girl who seems to have been his lover, his attempts to recall the forgotten period produce an odyssey through France and conflicting accounts of what happened. When Susan Kewley speaks to him of that time, he finds himself glimpsing a terrible twilight world - the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Islanders

    by Christopher Priest ...
    A tale of murder, artistic rivalry and literary trickery; a chinese puzzle of a novel where nothing is quite what it seems; a narrator whose agenda is artful and subtle; a narrative that pulls you in and plays an elegant game with you.The Dream Archipelago is a vast network of islands. The names of the islands are different depending on who you talk to, their very locations seem to twist and shift ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Adjacent

    by Christopher Priest ...
    Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled to Britain from Anatolia where his wife Melanie has been killed by insurgent militia. IRGB is a nation living in the aftermath of a bizarre and terrifying terrorist atrocity - hundreds of thousands were wiped out when a vast triangle of west London was instantly annihilated. The authorities think the terrorist attack and the death of Tarent's ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Adjacent

    by Christopher Priest ...
    “One of the master illusionists of our time.” —Wired“A head-spinning blast of blurred reality . . . jaw-dropping.” —NPR“Completely fascinating.” —San Francisco Book ReviewSet against “a kaleidoscopic backdrop of Earth’s past, present, and future”, this time-hopping science fiction novel is a moving meditation on “the resonance of history, memory, and love” (AV Club)I... ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Gradual

    by Christopher Priest ...
    In the latest novel from one of the UK's greatest writers we return to the Dream Archipelago, a string of islands that no one can map or explain.Alesandro Sussken is a composer, and we see his life as he grows up in a fascist state constantly at war with another equally faceless opponent. His brother is sent off to fight; his family is destroyed by grief. Occasionally Alesandro catches glimpses of ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Episodes

    by Christopher Priest ...
    Christopher Priest is one of the most acclaimed writers of both SF and literary fiction at work today. Here, for the first time in almost twenty years, is a collection of his short work. Largely previously uncollected, ranging from the horrific to the touching, the science fictional to the realist, these stories are a perfect demonstration of the breadth and power of Priest's writing.Eleven ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Sacred Six (Vol. 2): War of the Roses Collection

    by Christopher Priest ...
    Spinning out of the current hit collections, Vampirella: Seduction of the Innocent Volumes 1 & 2! Volume 2 begins with our women of the evening, having lost the woman who'd drawn them together, Lilith of Drakulon, but discovering a new and more powerful incentive to stay and defend the peaceful vampires of Ashthorne. Plus the non-team gets one and one-half new recruits-and they don't even realize ... Read more

    $22.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Expect Me Tomorrow

    by Christopher Priest ...
    A petty thief who called himself John Smith was arrested in 1877, for theft through fraudulent behaviour. He was convicted and sent to prison.In 1852, Adler and Adolf Beck's father died on a glacier, and their lives separated. One became a respected climate scientist; the other a globally renowned opera singer, or so he claimed. They remained in touch, to share details of the mysterious voices ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Islanders

    by Christopher Priest ...
    Discover the islands of the Dream Archipelago—where reality is both illusory and magical—in this “masterful . . . endlessly compelling” literary sci-fi novel for fans of Haruki Murakami and David Mitchell (Locus).The Dream Archipelago is a vast network of islands. The names of the islands are different depending on who you talk to. Their very locations seem to twist and shift.Some islands have ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD