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Dream Archipelago (Paperback)

by Christopher Priest (Author)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Earthlight (4 May 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0671033883
  • ISBN-13: 978-0671033880
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 608,066 in Books (See Bestsellers 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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Superbly-written mosaic of another world., 30 May 2001
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"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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous, 8 April 2008
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.
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