02-04-2024, 04:30 PM | #1 |
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Goodbye, Christopher Priest.
The great novelist and science fiction writer died Feb. 02.
Time to reacquaint myself with his work, which I read years ago. I remember reading The Space Machine: A Scientific Romance, and (I think) The Inverted World. Time to visit some delusional alternate realities... |
02-04-2024, 04:49 PM | #2 |
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Another author I'm going to miss. I liked The Inverted World and The Space Machine plus a couple of short story collections.
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02-04-2024, 07:48 PM | #3 |
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And he wrote the film tie in Short Circuit.
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02-05-2024, 09:06 AM | #4 |
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I loved The Prestige and The Separation, and enjoyed a lot of his other books. A sad loss, although I hadn't realised he was 80.
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Never heard of him. I will have to check him out. |
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02-05-2024, 11:14 AM | #6 |
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My library has several of his books, I think my husband would like his writing.
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02-05-2024, 11:50 PM | #7 |
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I have read and loved The Prestige and The Separation. A Dream of Wessex did nothing for me. I must get hold of more of his books.
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02-07-2024, 02:15 PM | #8 |
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I have The Prestige to read but don't believe I have read the author yet. RIP
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