2024 the best man: the final chapters episodes review
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Christopher Priest is one of the most acclaimed writers of both SF and literary fiction at work today. Here, for the first time in almost twenty years, is a collection of his short work. Largely previously uncollected, ranging from the horrific to the touching, the science fictional to the realist, these stories are a perfect demonstration of the breadth and power of Priest's writing.
Eleven stories are included, along with commentary and reflection from the author. Within these pages you will discover the stage magic-inspired horror of 'The Head and the Hand', the timeslip accidents of 'futouristic.co.uk', the impossible romance of 'Palely Loitering' and the present-day satire of 'Shooting an Episode'.
Christopher Priest is a genre-leading author of SFF fiction. His novel, THE PRESTIGE, won a number of awards and was adapted into a critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated film directed by Christopher Nolan (TENET, INCEPTION) starring Hugh Jackman (THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, X-MEN), Christian Bale (THE BIG SHORT, BATMAN BEGINS), Michael Caine (THE ITALIAN JOB) and Scarlett Johansson (MARRIAGE STORY, THE AVENGERS).
ASIN : B07W55ZF2Y
Publisher : Gollancz (July 11, 2019)
Publication date : July 11, 2019
Language : English
File size : 1151 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 368 pages
Reviewer: Pablo Rodriguez
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not the Priest anthology that we needed
Review: I like Priest a lot, and with the exception of his earliest stories and his latest novel, it's all been good to great for me. An anthology was a good idea, especially after his last novel did so poorly, but this isn't the anthology we needed. The price is far too high for 11 stories (even the ebook is too high), and only one of these stories is new. Three of them are free on-line, a fourth was free on-line but has been pulled down, one is a 99 cent ebook, and the rest have all been collected previously. What we really needed was a collection of all the Dream Archipelago stories in a single volume.
Reviewer: Des Lewis
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Literature is a time travel tontine lottery during lockdown and this is its most complexly rich exposé from 2009 in the most disarmingly simplistic of prose styles. No mean feat. Whatever the evidence, this is NO co-vivid dream as you will discover should you dare click on the waking reality of the link in the title!The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long or impractical to post here.Above is one of my observations at the time of the review.
Reviewer: WendyC
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I first discovered Christopher Priest with his novel, The Inverted World. It was in an SF anthology I'd discarded, but it haunted me for a number of years until the Internet allowed me to discover who wrote it, and enjoy it again. Episodes is a mixture of stories, all speculative in nature, some more horrific, some a touch romantic, but all thought provoking. I love the way Christopher writes, and marvel at the intricacies of his imagination, from the clever use of time travel in Palely Loitering, to the sadness of lost love in An Infinite Summer. As a writer myself, I am fascinated by his introduction and conclusion to each of the stories. It sets them in context, and teaches us more about the man behind the pen. Recommended, if you want your mind expanded, and are not afraid to step a little towards the abyss.
Reviewer: David Jones
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Episodes isn't the place to start with Christopher Priest's writing - but if you've ever enjoyed one of his novels, you'll find some of his best work distilled into these short stories, which range across his working life and are currently out of print. There's a thread of darkness that runs through them - sometimes expressed as horror, sometimes as perversity - but as the title suggests, his special gift for telling a story from multiple, seemingly-incompatible filmic viewpoints is given full rein in this collection. His short introductions and afterwords give an idiosyncratic tang and depth to each story.