One young man is destined to find out the truth about this inverted world. The land spreads out impossibly in all directions, and time itself heads for surcease. A brief outline of the story gives away few of the surprises that are to come: A mobile city, travelling on tracks laid before it and torn up behind it, is battling its way slowly across a hideously deformed landscape. It belongs to one of the most popular sub-genres of science fiction: the tale of a man who slowly discovers the true nature of the world in which he lives. Priest’s most translated work, it has been continuously in print for three decades. The inverted world by Christopher Priest, 1974, Harper & Row edition, in English - 1st U.S. Inverted World will be remembered for many years, I would guess, as one of the few science fiction novels of the 1970s to come up with a new idea. Inverted World is the closest CP come to writing a traditional science fiction novel, but although it is an early work it already contains elements of his later preoccupations with the nature and reliability of reality. The Gollancz edition has an Introduction by Adam Roberts - the US edition has an Afterword by John Clute. The previous paperback edition was a joint publication with Fugue For a Darkening Island (as “Omnibus 2” Earthlight, 1999). First published in hardcover by Faber, 1974. Christopher Priest (born 14 July 1943) is a British author, primarily of Science Fiction.His best known works include The Prestige (which won a World Fantasy Award, and was adapted for film by Christopher Nolan), and The Inverted World.
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