- Hardcover: 172 pages
- Publisher: GrimGrin Studio (16 Nov 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0955973546
- ISBN-13: 978-0955973543
- Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 16 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,211,291 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Essential Early Career Retrospective,
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This review is from: Ersatz Wines (Hardcover)
This is a piece of literary history, of particular interest to established fans of Priest in general and New Wave SF enthusiasts in particular.
Only a few of the twelve stories here have been published before, and these were uncollected - so unless you have copies of the original issues of 'Impulse' or 'New Worlds' they were published in, you will not have read them. For the record, these previously issued tales are 'Impasse', 'The Ersatz Wine' and 'Conjugation'. 'The Interrogator' was published in a different form as part of the first CP novel "Indoctrinaire". The previous reviewer has summed up the book pretty well, describing it as Priest revealing his apprenticeship as a writer. I second the point that the autbiographical introduction is a superb little confessional that serious fans of the author will really enjoy. It's also an inspiring admission of cluelessness that would inspire any would be writer. But then, priest is diffferent, even if he is right to claim he had no idea where to start as a writer back in the early sixties...that fierce, fearless intelligence was always there, I reckon. Of enormous interest to admirers of the authors' work from the late seventies onward is the story 'Chance', where we see an early glimpses of the authors' genius at playing with the nature of reality, unreliable narrators and so on. Simply, essential for anyone interested in Britain's finest living novelist.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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An Interesting Retrospective,
By Mike Fazey (Perth, Western Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ersatz Wines (Hardcover)
This collection of stories from Christopher Priest's formative writing years is notable not so much for its literary merit, but for the insights it gives into Priest's development. All the stories were originally written in 1960s when Priest was in his twenties. Some were published in SF magazines, some were rejected, others were never submitted for publication. They're quirky and experimental and some of them work better than others. To be honest, one or two are pretty dreadful. But this doesn't detract from the book's allure or its intents, which are to portray the humble beginnings of a successful writing career and to serve as instructive encouragement for those inspired to write SF.
The book begins with a quite lengthy autobiographical essay in which Priest recalls a childhood devoid of literary influences, an early career as a trainee accountant (who'd have thought!) and his discovery of the SF genre. In addition, the stories are accompanied by commentaries in which Priest outlines their backgrounds, what was happening in his life at the time of writing and the writers who influenced them. He also gives frank assessments of their good and bad points. I actually found these insights more interesting than the stories themselves. In fact, the book could be read as a kind of disguised literary autobiography. Admittedly, I'm a long-standing Priest fan, so I probably got more from Ersatz Wines than someone reading him for the first time. Indeed, I wouldn't recommend it as an introduction to Priest's writing. But for those already familiar with his work, it's a fascinating read. He's certainly come a long way.
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