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Old 02-04-2024, 05:30 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...
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Old 02-04-2024, 05:49 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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And he wrote the film tie in Short Circuit.
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Old 02-05-2024, 10:06 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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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...

Never heard of him. I will have to check him out.
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Old 02-05-2024, 12:14 PM   #6
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My library has several of his books, I think my husband would like his writing.
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Old 02-06-2024, 12:50 AM   #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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I have The Prestige to read but don't believe I have read the author yet. RIP
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