Christopher Priest

Christopher Priest was a British writer of science fiction and novels, born in 1943 and died in 2024. Among his books are The Prestige, a story of two rival stage magicians in Victorian England, and The Affirmation, a psychological novel that mixes science fiction with literary fiction. Other titles include The Inverted World and The Separation, which show the range of his work across the genre. Strongly influenced by H. G. Wells, Priest was appointed Vice-President of the international H. G. Wells Society in 2006.