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Christopher Priest (nacido el 14 de Julio de 1943 en Cheadle cerca de Manchester) es un novelista inglés famoso por sus obras Fuga para una isla, Un mundo invertido, La afirmación, El Glamour ganadora del premio Kurd Lassawitz, El prestigio galardonada con el premio James Tait Black Memorial en 1995 y La separación. En el año 1983 fue uno de los veinte premiados en los Granta, premios concedidos a lo mejores novelistas jóvenes. Christopher Priest está casado con la escritora Leigh Kennedy y vive en Hastings con sus hijos gemelos. Anteriormente estuvo casado con la también escritora Lisa Tuttle.

Gran parte de sus trabajos son considerados como obras de ciencia ficción. Sus obras se caracterizan por emplear narradores poco fiables, además suele tratar cuestiones relativas a la narración, la verdad, la naturaleza de la memoria y la realidad. Entre sus influencias pueden destacarse las del pionero de la ciencia ficción H. G. Wells. En el año 2006 fue nombrado Vicepresidente de la sociedad internacional H. G. Wells.

El 20 de octubre del año 2006 se estrenó la película El prestigio basada en su novela homónima. Esta película fue dirigida por Christopher Nolan y entre los actores cabe destacar a Christian Bale y Hugh Jackman.

Entre el 7 de noviembre y el 7 de diciembre del año 2007 en el Colegio de arte y diseño de Chelsea se realizó una exposicón inspirada en su novela La afirmación.

Obras

One of his early novels, The Affirmation, is about a traumatized man who apparently flips into a delusional world in which he experiences a lengthy voyage to an archipelago of exotic islands. This setting had previously featured in many of Priest's short stories, which raises the question of whether the Dream Archipelago is actually a fantasy. The state of mind depicted in this novel is remarkably similar to that of the delusional fantasy-prone psychoanalytic patient ("Kirk Allen") in Robert Lindner's The Fifty-Minute Hour or Jack London's tortured prisoner in The Star Rover.

Priest also dealt with delusional alternate realities in A Dream of Wessex in which a group of experimenters for a British government project are brain-wired to a hypnosis machine and jointly participate in an imaginary but as-real-as-real future in a vacation island off the coast of a Sovietized Britain.

Probably the best received of his pure SF work was Inverted World, a novel set on a bizarre planet that can be best described as an inside-out sphere, its equator and poles stretching out to infinity. The protagonist Helward Mann literally sees this for himself in a narrative spike in the middle of the book, after which the plot tails-off to a typically inconclusive conclusion. The novel's structure thereby mirrors the shape of the planet. This fine attention to structure is another of Priest's hallmarks, and can be seen in all his later novels but particularly The Prestige and The Separation.

Tie-in work

He wrote the tie-in novel to accompany the 1999 David Cronenberg movie eXistenZ, the theme of which has much in common with some of Priest's own novels, most notably A Dream of Wessex and The Extremes.

He was approached to write stories for the 18th and 19th seasons of Doctor Who. The first, "Sealed Orders," was a political thriller based on Gallifrey; it was eventually abandoned due to script problems and replaced with "Warriors' Gate." The second, "The Enemy Within," was eventually abandoned due to script problems and what Priest perceived as insulting treatment after he was asked to modify the script to include the death of Adric. It was replaced by "Earthshock." This falling out soured the production office on the use of established literary authors with no more being commissioned as a result.

Obras escritas bajo pseudónimo

Priest uses the pseudonyms John Luther Novak and Colin Wedgelock, usually for his movie novelizations. As well as the eXistenZ novelization (which undermined the pseudonym by including Priest's biography on the pre-title page), he has also novelised the movies Mona Lisa (as John Luther Novak) and Short Circuit (as Colin Wedgelock).
Priest has co-operated with fellow British science fiction author David Langford on various enterprises under the Ansible brand.
Comic book writer Jim Owsley changed his name to "Christopher Priest" in the mid-1990s. He has claimed that he was completely unaware at the time that there was an established author of the same name.

Premios y honores obtenidos

His novels have won the BSFA award (1974, for Inverted World; 1998, for The Extremes; 2002, for The Separation), the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (for The Prestige) and the World Fantasy Award.

He has also won the BSFA award for short fiction, and been nominated for Hugo Awards in the categories of Best Novel, Best Novella, Best Novelette, and Best Non-Fiction Book (this last for his The Book on the Edge of Forever (aka Last Deadloss Visions), an exploration of the famously-unpublished Last Dangerous Visions anthology). The Space Machine won the International SF prize in the 1977 Ditmar Awards [1]. Priest's 1979 essay "The Making of the Lesbian Horse" (published as a Novacon chapbook) takes a humorous look at the roots of his acclaimed novel Inverted World. He was guest of honour at both Novacon 9 in 1979 and Novacon 30 in 2000, and at the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in 2005.

Bibliografía

Novelas traducidas

Novelas originales

Indoctrinaire, (n.) Faber and Faber, London, 1970
Fugue for a Darkening Island, (n.) Faber and Faber, London, 1973
Inverted World, (n.) Faber and Faber, London, 1974
The Space Machine, (n.) Faber and Faber, London, 1976
A Dream of Wessex (US title The Perfect Lover), (n.) Faber and Faber, London, 1977
The Affirmation, (n.) Faber and Faber, London, 1981
The Glamour, (n.) Jonathan Cape, London, 1984
Short Circuit, (n.) Sphere Books, 1986 (Film tie-in novelisation as Colin Wedgelock)
Mona Lisa, (n.) Sphere Books, 1986 (Film tie-in novelisation as John Luther Novak)
The Quiet Woman, (n.) Bloomsbury, London, 1990
The Prestige, (n.) Touchstone, Simon and Schuster, London, 1995
The Extremes, (n.) Simon and Schuster, London, 1998
eXistenZ, (n.) Harper, 1999
The Separation, (n) Scribner, 2002

Cuentos y otras publicaciones en el idioma original

"The Run", (ss) SF Impulse, May 1966 [Volume 1 Number 3]
"Conjugation", (ss) New Worlds, #169 December 1966
"The Ersatz Wine", (ss) New Worlds, #171 March 1967
"The Match", (ss) Tit-Bits, 11 November 1967
"Occupation Force", (ss) Tit-Bits, 25 November 1967
"The Haul" [with Dick Howett], (ss) Tit-Bits, 31 August 1968
"The Interrogator", (nv) New Writings in SF 15, editor John Carnell, London: Dobson, 1969
"The Perihelion Man", (nv) New Writings in SF 16, editor John Carnell, London: Dobson, 1969
"Breeding Ground", (ss) Vision of Tomorrow, January 1970
"Double Consummation", (ss) The Disappearing Future, editor George Hay, Panther, 1970
"Fire Storm", (ss) Quark/#1, editor Samuel R. Delany & Marilyn Hacker, Paperback Library, 1970
"Nothing Like the Sun", (ss) Vision of Tomorrow #10, July 1970
"Real-Time World", (nv) New Writings in SF 19, editor John Carnel, London: Dobson, 1971
"Sentence in Binary Code", (ss) Fantastic, August 1971
"The Head and the Hand", (ss) New Worlds Quarterly 3, editor Michael Moorcock, London: Sphere, 1972
"The Inverted World", (nv) New Writings in SF 22, editor Kenneth Bulmer, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1973
"Transplant", (ss) Worlds of If, January/February 1974
"A Woman Naked", (ss) Science Fiction Monthly, v1 #1 1974
"The Invisible Men", (ss) Stopwatch, editor George Hay, New English Library, 1974
Your Book of Film-Making, (n.f.) Faber and Faber, London 1974
"Men of Good Value", (ss) New Writings in SF 26, editor Kenneth Bulmer, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1975
"The Cremation", (nv) Andromeda 3, editor Peter Weston, London: Futura, 1978
"The Negation", (nv) Anticipations, editor Christopher Priest, Scribner's, 1978
"The Watched", (na) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1978
"Whores", (ss) New Dimensions 8, editor Robert Silverberg, Harper & Row, 1978
"Palely Loitering", (nv) The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1979
"The Agent" (with David Redd), (nv) Aries 1, editor John Grant, David & Charles, 1979
The Making of the Lesbian Horse (n.f.), Novacon 9 (for the Birmingham Science Fiction Group), 1979
"The Miraculous Cairn", (nv) New Terrors #2, editor Ramsey Campbell, London: Pan, 1980
"The Ament", (nv) Seven Deadly Sins: A Collection of New Fiction, editor anon., Severn House, London 1985
The Book on the Edge of Forever, (n.f.) Fantagraphics, Seattle, June 1993
"In a Flash" (from The Prestige), (ex) Interzone, #99 September 1995
"Impasse", (sss) SF Impulse, #12, February 1997
"I, Haruspex", (ss) The Third Alternative, #16 1998
"The Equatorial Moment", (ss) The Dream Archipelago, Earthlight, 1999
"The Cage of Chrome", (sss) Interzone, #156 June 2000
"The Discharge", (ss) SciFi.com Website 13th February 2002
"A Dying Fall", (ss) Asimov’s Science Fiction December 2006 [Volume 20 Number 12]
"The Trace of Him", (ss) Interzone February 2008 [Issue 214]

Enlaces externos

Christopher Priest en la Internet Speculative Fiction Database (en inglés).
Christopher Priest's web site
His story "The Discharge" at Sci Fiction
1995 interview by David Langford,includes brief summaries and comments by Priest on most of his novels to date.
His Guest of Honour speech at the 2005 World Science Fiction Convention
(en francés) Interview de Christopher Priest in Actusf.com