- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: Earthlight; New edition edition (6 Sep 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0684861526
- ISBN-13: 978-0684861524
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,166,421 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Superb interlinked collection of war-based short stories from a stunning author.
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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.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format: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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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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I read 5 times this book in 2011. I a totally obsessed by the story with the Insect / fruit thing.
this short story is cut like a diamond. Priest looses you in the shine until the sharp end hammers.
Yuo actually walk in the jungle by the hero, actually feel the sweat and the thirst that finally dooms hims.
this short story is cut like a diamond. Priest looses you in the shine until the sharp end hammers.
Yuo actually walk in the jungle by the hero, actually feel the sweat and the thirst that finally dooms hims.
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