WRITER

Christopher Priest

1943 - 2024

Christopher Priest

Christopher Mackenzie Priest (14 July 1943 – 2 February 2024) was a British novelist and science fiction writer. His works include Fugue for a Darkening Island (1972), The Inverted World (1974), The Affirmation (1981), The Glamour (1984), The Prestige (1995), and The Separation (2002). Priest was strongly influenced by the science fiction of H. G. Wells and in 2006 was appointed Vice-President of the international H. G. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christopher Priest has received more than 20,696 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Christopher Priest is the 2,468th most popular writer (up from 4,435th in 2019), the 1,821st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,306th in 2019) and the 201st most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

21k
Page Views (PV)
54.61
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
20
Languages Editions (L)
4.65
Effective Languages (L*)
2.50
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Notable Works

JLA

Comic books, strips, Justice League of America (Fictitious characters), Heroes in fiction

1987

The Prestige

Magicians, Journalists, Fiction

1995

The glamour

1984

The inverted world

English Science fiction

1974

An infinite summer

Short stories, English, Science fiction, English, English Short stories

1979

The affirmation

1981

The Affirmation

Fiction, general, Fiction, psychological, Schizophrenia

1981

JLA

Comic books, strips, Justice League of America (Fictitious characters), Heroes in fiction

1997

The separation

Fiction, Twins, World War, 1939-1945

2001

The Prestige

Magicians, Journalists, Fiction

Two 19th century stage illusionists, the aristocratic Rupert Angier and the working-class Alfred Borden, engage in a bitter and deadly feud; the effects are still being felt by their respective families a hundred years later. Working in the gaslight-and-velvet world of Victorian music halls, they prowl edgily in the background of each other's shadowy life, driven to the extremes by a deadly combination of obsessive secrecy and insatiable curiosity. At the heart of the row is an amazing illusion they both perform during their stage acts. The secret of the magic is simple, and the reader is in on it almost from the start, but to the antagonists the real mystery lies deeper. Both have something more to hide than the mere workings of a trick.

1901

The inverted world

English Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Roman anglais

1974

The glamour

Large type books, Fiction, science fiction, general, Paranormal fiction

Cameraman Richard Grey's memory has blanked out the few weeks before he was injured in a car bomb explosion. When he is visited by a girl who seems to have been his lover, his attempts to recall the forgotten period produce an odyssey through France and conflicting accounts of what happened. When Susan Kewley speaks to him of that time, he finds himself glimpsing a terrible twilight world - the world of the glamour.

1984