The Islanders

Awards:   Winner of British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel 2012 (UK) Winner of British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel 2013 Winner of British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel 2013. Winner of John W Campbell Award 2012 Winner of John W Campbell Award 2012 (UK) Winner of John W Campbell Award 2012.
Author:   Christopher Priest ,  Grady McFerrin
Publisher:   Orion Publishing Co
ISBN:  

9780575088641


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   13 September 2012
Format:   Paperback
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The Islanders


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Awards

  • Winner of British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel 2012 (UK)
  • Winner of British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel 2013
  • Winner of British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel 2013.
  • Winner of John W Campbell Award 2012
  • Winner of John W Campbell Award 2012 (UK)
  • Winner of John W Campbell Award 2012.

Overview

A tale of murder, artistic rivalry and literary trickery; a chinese puzzle of a novel where nothing is quite what it seems; a narrator whose agenda is artful and subtle; a narrative that pulls you in and plays an elegant game with you. The Dream Archipelago is a vast network of islands. The names of the islands are different depending on who you talk to, their very locations seem to twist and shift. Some islands have been sculpted into vast musical instruments, others are home to lethal creatures, others the playground for high society. Hot winds blow across the archipelago and a war fought between two distant continents is played out across its waters. THE ISLANDERS serves both as an untrustworthy but enticing guide to the islands, an intriguing, multi-layered tale of a murder and the suspect legacy of its appealing but definitely untrustworthy narrator. It shows Christopher Priest at the height of his powers and illustrates why he has remained one of the UK's most prized novelists.

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Author:   Christopher Priest ,  Grady McFerrin
Publisher:   Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:   Gollancz
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 19.50cm
Weight:   0.276kg
ISBN:  

9780575088641


ISBN 10:   0575088648
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   13 September 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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One of the most complex, challenging and satisfying fictions from one of our finest novelists. -- Telegraph


Attentive readers will be rewarded by Priest s inventive puzzle in which differing realities overlap and nothing is as it seems. LibraryJournal.com


For an artistic endeavor so concerned with the idea of art, it is apt that The Islanders proves in the final summation such an artful work. --Strange Horizons


Author Information

Author Website:   www.christopher-priest.co.uk

Christopher Priest's novels have built him an inimitable dual reputation as a contemporary novelist and a leading figure in modern SF and fantasy. His novel THE PRESTIGE is unique in winning both a major literary prize (The James Tait Black Award and a major genre prize The World Fantasy Award); THE SEPARATION won both the Arthur C Clarke and the British Science Fiction Awards. He was selected for the original Best of Young British Novelists in 1983.

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Author Website:   www.christopher-priest.co.uk

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