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	Christopher J. Priest - Meet Christopher Priest
		Christopher James Priest was born James Christopher Owsley on June 30, 1961 in Queens New York.
		Priest came to work at DC Comics in June of 1990 and began by hanging a huge poster of Malcolm X holding a machine gun over his desk.
		Priest eventually was put in charge of the IMPACT line of comics for younger readers (and PLEASE don't put that silly exclamation point in place of the "I").
	www.vorpalbunny.com /cjpriest/meet.html (2412 words)

	Parker & Waichman
		Christopher also said she wanted her mother to love her, so she did as she was told - lying in bed with her mother and the priest while they were intimate, Christopher said, sometimes while the priest fondled her.
		Christopher also has a letter that she said Dericks sent to her two years ago, on stationary imprinted with the initials J.H.D., after she wrote him to say she forgave him, even if he was unable to ask for forgiveness.
		Christopher said she's gone to therapy much of her life but didn't contact the diocese until after she started going to a support group for incest victims in the early-1990s.
	www.yourlawyer.com /practice/printnews.htm?story_id=2781 (2185 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Extremes
		Christopher Priest's awards include receiving the 1974 BSFA Award for Inverted World and the 1996 World Fantasy Award for The Prestige.
		Christopher Priest is one of the best SF writers around, and he seems much less well-known in the US than perhaps he should be.
		Priest seems fascinated with reality and how our consciousness creates our reality, and as such could hardly be expected to resist the temptation presented by a subject such as extremely realistic VR simulations.
	www.sfsite.com /05a/ex56.htm (781 words)

	Christopher Priest -- Christopher McKenzie Priest (Manchester, 1943) is een ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Christopher Priest -- Christopher McKenzie Priest (Manchester, 1943) is een...
		Christopher McKenzie Priest (Manchester, 1943) is een Brits sciencefictionschrijver.
		Priest won de Britse BSFA Award vier keer: voor romans Inverted World (1974), The Extremes (1998), The Separation (2002) en voor het korte verhaal Palely Loitering in 1979.
	christopher-priest.nl.tracking24.net (88 words)

	Locus Online: Christopher Priest interview excerpts
		Christopher Priest was born in Cheadle, Cheshire, England, worked as an accountant and audit clerk, and was employed at a greeting card company and mail-order book publisher, before switching to full-time writing in 1968.
		Priest's first story, "The Run", appeared in 1966, and first novel Indoctrinaire in 1970.
		Priest has been married to Leigh Kennedy since 1988; they live in Hastings with their two children.
	www.locusmag.com /2006/Issues/06Priest.html (749 words)

	Christopher Priest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		An attorney defends a priest in the death of a young girl...
		Priest was eyed for ouster prior to audit
		Christopher Priest is a science fiction writer, whose notable works include Inverted World, The Prestige, and The Separation.
	christopher-priest.wikiverse.org (180 words)

	Christopher Priest : An Infinite Summer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Priest's characters frequently find themselves trapped in time, their worlds bound by an obsession.
		Christopher Priest is a maker of new, shimmering worlds that, like dreams, impart all kinds of wisdom.
		Christopher Priest, winner of the British Science Fiction Award, is the author of five novels, including The Perfect Lover, and a collection of short stories.
	sf.emse.fr /AUTHORS/CPRIEST/cpais.html (281 words)

	The Separation by Christopher Priest - an infinity plus review
		As a result, Priest has crafted a fine fable of how the world is haunted by the ghosts of our what-might-have-beens and the awful sense of our own powerlessness to control events.
		For Priest, it is less the trails of consequences that are worth detailing, but the original moments where so much seems possible.
		Priest's narrative tricks, his rather clinical style and his repressed characters are familiar features from his other books, but while the combination works well in firing the intellect, it is less effective in seducing our sympathy.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/separation.htm (1116 words)

	Interview de Christopher Priest
		Avec son troisième roman Le monde inverti (1974), Christopher Priest a acquis bien justement une renommée mondiale.
		Christopher Priest : De nombreuses années de méditation et de prières… (rires) Les choses n'ont pas changées.
		Christopher Priest : Je suis en train d'écrire Formication, une nouvelle sur la folie d'une personne qui est persuadée d'avoir des fourmis qui cours dans sa chevelure.
	www.actusf.com /SF/interview/itw_priest.htm (1101 words)

	Christopher Priest (comic Book Writer) Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Christopher James Priest, born James Christopher Owsley in 1961, is a writer of comic books.
		He was intended to become the company's editor-in-chief, but personal problems forced him to scale down his involvement, settling for the role of a liaison between DC Comics and Milestone Media.
		He states that he was completely unaware at the time of the established British author of the same name; as an accommodation, he refers to himself professionally as just "Priest".
	www.artisticnudity.com /encyclopedia/Christopher_Priest_%28comic_book_writer%29 (538 words)

	Christopher Priest: The Separation
		Confronted with a plethora of contradictory facts, it quickly becomes apparent that Priest is playing with the tropes of alternate history to present a world in which the history is fractured.
		Priest allows a couple of historical figures, notably Winston Churchill and Rudolf Hess to appear in the course of the novel.
		The Separation’s greatest strength is Priest’s ability to portray all his characters, and their motives and opinions, in a realistic manner.
	www.sfsite.com /%7Esilverag/priest.html (619 words)

	Christopher_priest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Christopher Priest is a consistently fine writer, and, for me, this exceeds his two immediately prior novels, and they were good reads also ('The Extremes', and 'The Prestige')...
		An enigma wrapped in a riddle; the ideal alternate history : Christopher Priest's "The Separation" breaks from the standard Alternate History templates in almost every way possible, and as a result, is superb addition to the genre.
		Priest is one of the best comic wrters on the planet...
	books.mysic.ca /Author/Christopher_Priest (784 words)

	Christopher Priest: The Dream Archipelago - an infinity plus review
		As Priest’s novel The Affirmation (1981) complexly conveys, his so-called Dream Archipelago is just what its name implies, a region of the wondering (and wandering) mind, a location allowing intricate explorations of various, always abnormal, mental states.
		Tiny camera devices known as scintillas are being used in the war, and have spread to the extent of being as common as pollen.
		As a study of the psychology of voyeurism, "The Watched" is very incisive indeed; with its chess-like logic of construction, its extraordinary control of suspense, and its brilliant closing orchestration of the concerns of the entire volume, "The Watched" must rank as one of the greatest SF novellas.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/dream.htm (808 words)

	Christopher Priest CV at PFD
		In 1996 Priest won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Prestige.
		Christopher Priest excels at rethinking SF themes, lifting them above genre expectations and into his own tricky, chilling, metaphysically dangerous territory.
		In this interlinked collection of stories, Christopher Priest explores war, relationships and forms of reality.
	www.pfd.co.uk /clients/priestc/b-aut.html (377 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Prestige (Gollancz SF S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Priest has written with supreme skill and restraint, creating a backdrop which remains exactly that whilst enhancing the story line, and beautifully illustrating the social rituals of the period setting.
		In this case, Christopher Priest's sleighty-writing talent has turned a dark tale of the obsessive rivalry between two late-Victorian stage-magicians into a masterpiece of art and illusion.
		At one point, she promises to reveal the secrets of one magican to the other, for it is hard for true love to thrive in an atmosphere of distrust and deliberate deceit.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0575075805 (1408 words)

	The Edge interview: Christopher Priest - Impact
		CHRISTOPHER PRIEST: The whole idea was inspired by a stigmatic priest in Italy who could bi-locate.
		What they say is that the problem with their secrets is that they’re so silly that if anyone found out what they were they’d go out of business.
		PRIEST: Everyone I know who’s piled up money has sold out and I think, ‘Christ, I wish I’d done that.’ It’s too late for me. I’m absolutely serious about this.
	www.theedge.abelgratis.co.uk /priestshortiview.htm (1065 words)

	LBY3»Blog Archive » Christopher Priest Plays the Race Card in a Winning Hand for “Quantum and ...
		But Christopher Priest has wrestled with the subject more than once and “Quantum and Woody,” from Acclaim Comics, is a critical hit, blending action and comedy in the “buddy movie” tradition.
		Although Priest now pooh-poohs the early issues of his run, which began with issue #111 and extended through the series’ conclusion at #125, they were a hit with the fans, and marked the first time he worked with “Quantum and Woody” penciller Mark “Doc” Bright.
		The most notorious surprise the series has taken, though, at least from the standpoint of Priest and Bright, is the runaway appeal of a character meant to be a throwaway: a goat Woody threatens the life of to get the cooperation of a group of monks in issue three.
	www.lby3.com /archives/15 (2039 words)

	christophernolan.net - The Prestige
		An Adaptation of the Christopher Priest novel about two rival magicians in the 19th century.
		Priest has seen an advance copy of Jonathan Nolan's screenplay, and says that "it is an extraordinary and brilliant script, a fascinating adaptation of my novel.
		Christopher Nolan will most probably direct "The Prestige" an adaptation of the Christopher Priest novel, to which his brother Jonathan Nolan wrote the script.
	www.christophernolan.net /prestige.php (731 words)

	Steven Wu's Book Reviews: Space Machine, The (Christopher Priest) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Priest's novel, however, the salient characteristic of the eponymous machine is not its ability to travel through time--though it can do that too--but rather its ability to travel through space.
		Even when Priest creates something genuinely new, such as Edward and Amelia's adventures in a war-torn Mars, the plot is at the mercy of the book's influences: Priest is more than willing to abandon his own narratives when Wells's stories declare that some event or another must happen.
		Priest is an author who is clearly capable of stunning invention: The Inverted World, for all its flaws, and the vastly superior The Prestige are among the most original books I have ever read.
	www.scwu.com /bookreviews/h/PriestChristopherSpaceMachineThe.shtml (472 words)

	DarkEcho Review: The Prestige by Christopher Priest
		Priest proves to be a master magician and his words are a heady incantation that persuade, compel, and bedazzle the reader.
		Priest's incredible performance continues to astound us as the second magician's tale takes the stage.
		By the time Priest has mesmerized you past reason, and presented the second magician's, Rupert Angier, narrative, the pay-off comes.
	www.darkecho.com /darkecho/reviews/prestige.html (424 words)

	NEWSARAMA
		PRIEST: I actually think my most personal work has been with The Ray, and some of the Spider-Man stuff I did in the 80's (notably Spider-Man vs. Wolverine).
		PRIEST: Artist Joe Bennett, Inker Danny Miki and I were so totally in sync and so emotionally invested in the work, that I went spiraling into a very deep depression when word came down that, before issue #2 hit the stands, Marvel had decided to pull the plug.
		PRIEST: I'd love to edit comics again, but I will not move back to New York and neither major seems willing to allow outside packagers to put comics together for them.
	www.newsarama.com /pages/CaseyRama/Casey_Priest.htm (4262 words)

	Christopher Priest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		PRIEST publie plusieurs livres à partir de 1972, mais le succès n'arrive réellement qu'avec son troisième roman, "Le Monde inverti", chef d'oeuvre de hard-science au ton étrangement distant qui sera célébré en France en particulier comme l'un des fleurons de la nouvelle SF britannique.
		L'oeuvre de Christopher PRIEST s'éloigne ensuite, peu à peu de la science-fiction, s'intéressant plutôt à des réalités floues et parallèles, que l'on qualifiera de fantastiques ou d'oniriques faute de mieux...
		Christopher PRIEST vit aujourd'hui à Hastings avec son épouse et ses jumeaux.
	www.cafardcosmique.com /auteur/pri.html (1028 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Extremes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Christopher Priest's previous novel, The Prestige, won the World Fantasy Award and the James Tait Black Award.
		Priest (The Prestige) keeps one eye on his suspenseful plot, another on the SF angles that underpin it and a third, camera-eye on the real implications of worldwide instant communication, virtual reality and media-driven violence.
		The problem is, Priest assumes that a woman experiencing a man's role in virtual reality -- including sexual activity -- won't react any differently than she had as her own self.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0446676454?v=glance (2274 words)

	The Richmond Review, Feature article, A Quick Chat with Christopher Priest by Graham Dickson
		Christopher Priest is the author of ten novels and two collections of short stories.
		The Richmond Review caught up with Christopher Priest as he was preparing to leave his home in Hastings for a family holiday to ask him about the background to the new novel.
		Christopher Priest: My own 'experience' of Hungerford was pretty marginal, and I'm not keen to depict myself as some kind of victim.
	www.richmondreview.co.uk /features/priesint.html (1888 words)

	Christopher Priest Speaks!
		Priest was booted out of the GL corps by the Guardians because he refused to kill Malvolio (the Guardians had ordered him to pop the bastard).
		Priest went into self-exile on a rock in the middle of nowhere.
		Priest was ultimately going to replace the Guardians, whom Denny and I both thought were a little 1960's, as Hal's "big brother." Priest was legit.
	www.glcorps.org /priestpst.html (1491 words)

	The Separation by Christopher Priest
		Priest is a talented and evocative writer, able to use only a few words to place the reader in the centre of a scene.
		Priest has done an immense amount of research, just to put these doubts into our minds and each scenario is equally convincing.
		Just as Priest offers us several possibilities concerning what might have happened, on small scale as well as large scale, we are also asked to doubt what we believe is reality and to consider how even small things can affect the outcomes of events.
	www.computercrowsnest.com /sfnews2/04_feb/review0204_5.shtml (820 words)

	Captain America And The Falcon #1 Review - Silver Bullet Comics
		Christopher Priest is one of the few writers working today that seems perfectly willing to deliver stories where all the information isn't clearly spelled out, and often times the picture he's painting isn't all that clear right up until we hit that final chapter.
		The central plot is also worth a mention as it's nice to see a writer offer up a situation where two heroes would end up on opposing sides, and the potential for a confrontation between these heroes exists without the involvement of mind-control.
		Christopher Priest has managed to tap into a real-world situation that has divided the American population, as frankly the mere mention of Guantanaamo Bay is enough to spark intense debate, as one can either look on it as a necessary evil, or a gross violation of human rights.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /reviews/107894896943353.htm (496 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Separation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Christopher Priest's finest novel in his 30-year-career as an award-winning writer --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
		What Priest does is to take a 'what if' scenario, turn it inside out several times, and leave you with an 'if what' scenario.
		The conclusion is, like most of Priest's novels, inconclusive, and whilst this is a strength in novels such as 'The Glamour' or 'The Prestige', you are left feeling that there's something missing.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0743220331 (1645 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Prestige (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Priest, one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists (1983 list), has not been overproductive since he made a small reputation with The Affirmation and The Glamour, published here more than a dozen years ago.
		In a carefully calculated period style that is remarkably akin to that of the late Robertson Davies, Priest writes of a pair of rival magicians in turn-of-the-century London.
		The rivalry of the two men is such that in the end, though both are ashamed of the strength of their feelings of spite and envy, it consumes them both, and affects their respective families for generations.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312858868?v=glance (764 words)

	Steven Wu's Book Reviews: Inverted World, The (Christopher Priest)
		The only problem is that Priest suddenly decides to abandon his premise three-quarters of the way through the book.
		Fortunately (unlike in the similarly ill-ended Darwinia) Priest moves over his explanation hastily and then closes the book on one of his traditionally ambiguous notes.
		Priest writes in a clear and understandable style that, though never flashy, communicates his ideas eaisly.
	www.scwu.com /bookreviews/h/PriestChristopherInvertedWorldThe.shtml (592 words)

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