Christopher Priest is a science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction novelist. The author was born in Cheadle in Manchester and began writing soon after he graduated from school. He started out writing short stories and other literary works that were featured in magazines and other outlets during the 1960s.
He continued to write in this format, even as he also wrote occasional nonfiction works and novels that include children’s fiction biographies and critical work. He published “Indoctrinaire,” his debut novel in 1970, which began a stretch of more than twenty years in which he published a book every two years.
Books in order of publication:
Standalone Novels
| Indoctrinaire | (1970) | |
| Fugue for a Darkening Island | (1972) | |
| The Inverted World | (1974) | |
| The Space Machine | (1976) | |
| A Dream of Wessex | (1977) | |
| The Perfect Lover | (1977) | |
| The Affirmation | (1981) | |
| The Glamour | (1984) | |
| Short Circuit | (1986) | |
| Mona Lisa | (1986) | |
| The Quiet Woman | (1990) | |
| The Prestige | (1995) | |
| The Extremes | (1998) | |
| eXistenZ | (1999) | |
| The Separation | (2002) | |
| The Islanders | (2011) | |
| The Adjacent | (2013) | |
| The Gradual | (2016) | |
| An American Story | (2018) | |
| Episodes | (2019) | |
| The Evidence | (2020) | |
| Expect Me Tomorrow | (2022) | |
| Airside | (2023) |
Short Stories/Novellas
| The Negation | (1978) |
Collections
| Real-Time World | (1974) | |
| An Infinite Summer | (1979) | |
| The Dream Archipelago | (1999) | |
| Ersatz Wines | (2008) | |
| Real-Time World +2 | (2012) |
Non-Fiction Books
| The Book on the Edge of Forever | (1987) | |
| The Last Deadloss Visions | (1988) | |
| The Magic | (2008) | |
| “It” Came From Outer Space | (2008) |
| The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume One | (2016) |
| The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Three | (2018) |
| The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Four | (2020) |
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