Christopher Priest
Christopher Priest was born in Cheshire, England. He has published eleven novels, three short-story collections, and a number of other books, including critical works, biographies, novelizations, and children's nonfiction. His most recent novel, The Separation, won both the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the BSFA Award. In 1996 Priest won both the World Fantasy Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Prestige, which was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film by Christopher Nolan in 2006. He has been nominated four times for the Hugo Award, and has won several awards abroad. In 2001 he was awarded the Prix Utopia (France) for lifetime achievement. He has written drama for radio and television, and has had features and reviews in The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, the New Statesman, The Scotsman, and The Washington Post. He is married to the writer Leigh Kennedy. They live in Hastings, England, with their twin teenage children.
 | The Inverted World
The City is pulled along on tracks, forever at risk of slipping back in space and time, and threatened on all sides by hostile tribes. Christopher Priest's classic of hard science fiction is as mind-bending as it was when it was first published thirty years ago.
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