- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Earthlight (4 May 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671033883
- ISBN-13: 978-0671033880
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.9 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,098,827 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In a world at war, the Dream Archipelago marks a neutral zone, a lure to the young men on both sides of the conflict. In this interlinked collection of stories, Christopher Priest explores war, relationships and forms of reality.
About the Author
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 in1983.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Superbly-written mosaic of another world.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Dream Archipelago (Paperback)
"The Dream Archipelago" consists of six inter-linked stories set in a war-torn alternative world, (vaguely reminiscent of our Mediterranean Europe), and features many of the great Christopher Priest themes of art, time, growing up, the reliability of memory and the uneasy sense of not quite being able to place who you are. (In many ways, "The Dream Archipelago" could be read as a companion-volume to Priest's wonderful novel "The Affirmation", since it shares a lot of concerns and background details with that book.) Not content with the usual S.F. trappings, Priest imagines the aftermath of battles fought with synaesthetic weapons, places where insects and fruits have a strange predatory, symbiotic relationship and countries where microscopic surveillance has seeped into every facet of life. Genuinely strange and haunting stuff - structured not unlike Keith Roberts' "Pavane", in that it gradually builds up a mosaic-picture of an entire other world and its customs, letting the reader make all the connections and inferences without a lot of intrusive authorial prodding. Highly enjoyable, frequently eerie and superbly written stories throughout.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Fabulous,
By Greystones113 (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dream Archipelago (Paperback)
A great collection of inter-linked stories. There are enough wonderful ideas here to supply a lesser writer with material for several novels. In Priest's hands we get an ultra concentrated and potent distillation of prose with some of the most disturbing and memorable images I can ever recall. The spider-like insect/fruit symbiosis story is harrowing, and the the all-seeing scintillas in the final story are a fabulous voyeuristic concept. I see a new version of the book is due for publication (early 2009) with an extra 70 or so pages - presumably an extra story or two - I will have to buy it and so should you.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Dark and brooding,
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Dark and brooding, some of the best writing you will see. It mixes a sens of M.R. James with Philip K Dick. Much of Priests work is not really SF or fantasy but a kind of philosophy. I want to say he is like Philip K Dick, but his work is not derivative and brings its own unique style. If anything his work is disturbing and I wonder more of the younger Vampire emo readers do not get into him. The Glamour was my first introduction to him and it beats all the outsider vampire books hands down. And he is from Sussex.
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