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A petty thief who called himself John Smith was arrested in 1877,
for theft through fraudulent behaviour. He was convicted and sent
to prison. In 1852, Adler and Adolf Beck's father died on a
glacier, and their lives separated. One became a respected climate
scientist; the other a globally renowned opera singer, or so he
claimed. They remained in touch, to share details of the mysterious
voices only they could hear. In 2050, Charles Ramsey also has a
twin. Greg is a climate journalist. Charles used to be a police
profiler, but his redundancy leads to him being sent home with an
experimental chip in his head. His brother urges him to explore a
little-known aspect of their family history. All these people are
connected, impossibly, inexorably. All their lives will intersect.
And the climate of their world will keep on changing.
Thousands of years before Billy Batson became a magically-empowered
hero, the wizard Shazam selected another champion. Teth-Adam or
'Mighty Adam' began as a hero of humanity, but then allowed his
power to corrupt his ideals and desires. Now labeled Black Adam, he
was exiled by Shazam, but returned in the modern day. A frequent
enemy to Earth s heroes, Black Adam believes he is the right person
to lead humanity and any action he takes is necessary for the
greater good. There is no forgiveness for Black Adam. This is the
reality Teth-Adam, immortal man of indomitable will, must face when
he discovers he has been infected with an incurable plague
destroying his immortality. Haunted by the specter of centuries of
dark deeds, Black Adam transfers his powers to a worthy successor
who will redeem Adam s legacy and defend their ancestral homeland
of Kahndaq, only to subsequently become mystically handcuffed to
him when Adam s plague is arrested, giving birth to perhaps the
most volatile and dysfunctional super-team in DC history!
Spinning out of Christopher Priests successful Vampirella and
Sacred Six series….comes Draculina. One child, two destinies: who
is the daughter of Lilith of Drakulon? Is she a streetwise runaway
human preteen, or is she Vampirella's deadly siren night-stalker
evil twin? Two souls linked by a reality-jumping demon struggle for
control of their own destiny as Draculina, Lilith's first and most
beloved daughter, is brought into Vampirella's reality and linked
to an alternate version of herself by a cursed candle which warps
reality when lit, swapping Draculina with her other possible
"self"-a tough homeless preteen struggling to make it on her own
while being constantly drawn into Draculina's schemes. Establishing
a secret identity for herself as "River East", high-profile
socialite daughter of the missing and presumed dead Lilith Ogden
Eastaughffe, Draculina presses forth with a secret, evil agenda of
bloody retribution against everyone who's ever done her wrong, with
only Katie-her alt-self-standing between her and her deadly goals.
Draculina is a wild, fast-paced ride through the literal reverse
sensitivities of our altruistic Vampirella, brought to you by
Christopher Priest & Vengeance of Vampi artist Michael Sta.
Maria! Buckle up for one dark, wild ride!
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Airside (Hardcover)
Christopher Priest
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Hollywood actress Jeanette Marchand was beautiful, talented,
beloved by audiences. During a time of personal crisis, she
declares she is going to take a vacation in England, to explore the
possibilities of working in London, before returning to the USA.
She never returned to the USA. She never even left the airport. At
least - no-one saw her leave. Years later, a young film student
finds himself digging deeper into her disappearance. Where did she
go? Was she really dead? Who was the mysterious man who sat beside
her on the flight across from New York? This is a gripping
speculative historical novel, grounded in the golden age of film.
Perfect for fans of true crime, conspiracy theories, and SF that is
chillingly close to reality.
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The Prestige (Paperback)
Christopher Priest
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In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose one another.
Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers, but with terrible consequences. In the course of pursuing each other's ruin, they will deploy all the deception their magicians' craft can command--the highest misdirection and the darkest science.
Blood will be spilled, but it will not be enough. In the end, their legacy will pass on for generations...to descendants who must, for their sanity's sake, untangle the puzzle left to them.
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Vampirella Dracula: Unholy (Paperback)
Christopher Priest; Edited by Matt Idelson; Artworks by Donny Hadiwidjaja
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Has Vampirella cheated fate? That's the question our interstellar
vampire faces as she unites in unholy matrimony with the man who
would be DRACULA! The honeymoon begins! The adventure of several
lifetimes begins as Vampirella and new husband Matt journey to
Castle Dracula in Transylvania in an attempt to cheat fate by
preventing both a high-tech virus and an ancient curse from using
Matt's body to resurrect the deadliest threat the world has ever
known. Meanwhile secrets and mystery grow around Vampi's spouse,
who may not be nearly as innocent as he appears to be. Join us for
Vampirella's next tale, by twice-bitten writer Christopher Priest
and bloodthirsty artist Donny Hadiwidjaja!
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The Chrysalids (Paperback)
John Wyndham; Introduction by Christopher Priest
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"The Chyrsalids "is set in the future after a devastating global
nuclear war. David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a
tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists,
always on the alert for any deviation from the norm of God's
creation. Abnormal plants are publicly burned, with much singing of
hymns. Abnormal humans (who are not really human) are also
condemned to destruction--unless they succeed in fleeing to the
Fringes, that Wild Country where, as the authorities say, nothing
is reliable and the devil does his work. David grows up ringed by
admonitions: KEEP PURE THE STOCK OF THE LORD; WATCH THOU FOR THE
MUTANT.
At first he does not question. Then, however, he realizes that the
he too is out of the ordinary, in possession of a power that could
doom him to death or introduce h im to a new, hitherto unimagined
world of freedom.
"The Chrysalids" is a perfectly conceived and constructed work form
the classic era o science fiction, a Voltairean philosophical tale
that has as much resonance in our own day, when religious and
scientific dogmatism are both on the march, as when it was written
during the cold war.
THE LONG NIGHT concludes Dynamite's record-breaking 50th
Anniversary Celebration of the swingiest of modern space vampires!
Our dark heroine is finally home from her Interstellar journey but
pursued through the cosmic Gateway by the enigmatic
vampire-murdering SHANE who follows a twisted agenda all his own to
seek out the oldest and deadliest of the undead and set in motion
events which will change Vampirella forever! issues 22-25 plus 7,8,
15
Two 19th century stage illusionists, the aristocratic Rupert Angier
and the working-class Alfred Borden, engage in a bitter and deadly
feud; the effects are still being felt by their respective families
a hundred years later. Working in the gaslight-and-velvet world of
Victorian music halls, they prowl edgily in the background of each
other's shadowy life, driven to the extremes by a deadly
combination of obsessive secrecy and insatiable curiosity. At the
heart of the row is an amazing illusion they both perform during
their stage acts. The secret of the magic is simple, and the reader
is in on it almost from the start, but to the antagonists the real
mystery lies deeper. Both have something more to hide than the mere
workings of a trick.
Christopher Priest's artful sleight of hand when it comes to
manipulating the experience of his books and notions of what is
real reaches a peak in this novel that accounts the trials and
tribulations of a group of people who have escaped into a utopian
shared virtual reality known as Wessex. It is a world engineered to
give them their every desire. But when one woman becomes subject to
the violent attentions of a man who feels that she is everything he
desires she must decide to fight back. Obsession and abuse of power
can cross from the real world to the imagined all too easily.
Thought by some to have been instrumental in the inspiration of the
film INCEPTION, A DREAM OF WESSEX is a classic in the literature of
virtual realities and remains one of Chris Priest's most highly
regarded novels. Christopher Priest is a genre-leading author of
SFF fiction. His novel, THE PRESTIGE, won a number of awards and
was adapted into a critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated film
directed by Christopher Nolan (TENET, INCEPTION) starring Hugh
Jackman (THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, X-MEN), Christian Bale (THE BIG
SHORT, BATMAN BEGINS), Michael Caine (THE ITALIAN JOB) and Scarlett
Johansson (MARRIAGE STORY, THE AVENGERS).
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The Gradual (Paperback)
Christopher Priest
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In the latest novel from one of the UK's greatest writers we return
to the Dream Archipelago, a string of islands that no one can map
or explain. Alesandro Sussken is a composer, and we see his life as
he grows up in a fascist state constantly at war with another
equally faceless opponent. His brother is sent off to fight; his
family is destroyed by grief. Occasionally Alesandro catches
glimpses of islands in the far distance from the shore, and they
feed into his music - music for which he is feted. But all
knowledge of the other islands is forbidden by the junta, until he
is unexpectedly sent on a cultural tour. And what he discovers on
his journey will change his perceptions of his country, his music
and the ways of the islands themselves. Playing with the lot of the
creative mind, the rigours of living under war and the nature of
time itself, this is Christopher Priest at his absolute best.
Christopher Priest is a genre-leading author of SFF fiction. His
novel, THE PRESTIGE, won a number of awards and was adapted into a
critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated film directed by Christopher
Nolan (TENET, INCEPTION) starring Hugh Jackman (THE GREATEST
SHOWMAN, X-MEN), Christian Bale (THE BIG SHORT, BATMAN BEGINS),
Michael Caine (THE ITALIAN JOB) and Scarlett Johansson (MARRIAGE
STORY, THE AVENGERS).
A petty thief who called himself John Smith was arrested in 1877,
for theft through fraudulent behaviour. He was convicted and sent
to prison. In 1852, Adler and Adolf Beck's father died on a
glacier, and their lives separated. One became a respected climate
scientist; the other a globally renowned opera singer, or so he
claimed. They remained in touch, to share details of the mysterious
voices only they could hear. In 2050, Charles Ramsey also has a
twin. Greg is a climate journalist. Charles used to be a police
profiler, but his redundancy leads to him being sent home with an
experimental chip in his head. His brother urges him to explore a
little-known aspect of their family history. All these people are
connected, impossibly, inexorably. All their lives will intersect.
And the climate of their world will keep on changing.
A uniquely powerful novel of a society in decay. On a planet whose
very nature is a mystery a massive decrepit city is pulled along a
massive railway track, laying the line down before it as it
progresses into the wilderness. The society within toils under an
oppressive regime, its structures always on the point of collapse,
the lives of its individuals lived in misery. No one knows where
they are going, why they are going or what they will find when they
get there. The ending of the novel provides one of the most
profound twists in SF.
THE SEPARATION is the story of twin brothers, rowers in the 1936
Olympics (where they met Hess, Hitler's deputy); one joins the RAF,
and captains a Wellington; he is shot down after a bombing raid on
Hamburg and becomes Churchill's aide-de-camp; his twin brother, a
pacifist, works with the Red Cross, rescuing bombing victims in
London. But this is not a straightforward story of the Second World
War: this is an alternate history: the two brothers - both called
J.L. Sawyer - live their lives in alternate versions of reality. In
one, the Second World War ends as we imagine it did; in the other,
thanks to efforts of an eminent team of negotiators headed by Hess,
the war ends in 1941. THE SEPARATION is an emotionally riveting
story of how the small man can make a difference; it's a savage
critique of Winston Churchill, the man credited as the saviour of
Britain and the Western World, and it's a story of how one
perceives and shapes the past. Christopher Priest is a
genre-leading author of SFF fiction. His novel, THE PRESTIGE, won a
number of awards and was adapted into a critically acclaimed,
Oscar-nominated film directed by Christopher Nolan (TENET,
INCEPTION) starring Hugh Jackman (THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, X-MEN),
Christian Bale (THE BIG SHORT, BATMAN BEGINS), Michael Caine (THE
ITALIAN JOB) and Scarlett Johansson (MARRIAGE STORY, THE AVENGERS).
Two 19th century stage illusionists, the aristocratic Rupert Angier
and the working-class Alfred Borden, engage in a bitter and deadly
feud; the effects are still being felt by their respective families
a hundred years later. Working in the gaslight-and-velvet world of
Victorian music halls, both men prowl edgily in the background of
each other's shadowy life, driven to the extremes by a deadly
combination of obsessive secrecy and insatiable curiosity. At the
heart of the row is an amazing illusion they both perform during
their stage acts. The secret of the magic is simple, and the reader
is in on it almost from the start, but to the antagonists the real
mystery lies deeper. Both have something more to hide than the mere
workings of a trick.
THE QUIET WOMAN stitches together a horrifyingly plausable
near-future dystopian Britain and a typically Priestian account of
an individual lost in the blurred boundaries between the real and
the imagined. It is a novel that bears comparison with the work of
Kazuo Ishiguro and A.S. Byatt as well as that of John Wyndham. In a
country that has lost its way memories of past lives are
distracting Alice Stockton. Living alone after the break up of her
marriage she makes a precarious living as a biographer yet finds
herself powerfully and inexplicably influenced by the lives of
others. A novel of uncertain personal histories and literary
mystery set in a disturbingly real dystopian Britain, THE QUIET
WOMAN is vintage Christopher Priest. Christopher Priest is a
genre-leading author of SFF fiction. His novel, THE PRESTIGE, won a
number of awards and was adapted into a critically acclaimed,
Oscar-nominated film directed by Christopher Nolan (TENET,
INCEPTION) starring Hugh Jackman (THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, X-MEN),
Christian Bale (THE BIG SHORT, BATMAN BEGINS), Michael Caine (THE
ITALIAN JOB) and Scarlett Johansson (MARRIAGE STORY, THE AVENGERS).
We round out Year Two of our 50th Anniversary Vampirella series
with the prologue to "Interstellar," the chronicle of Vampirella's
journey back to her home planet of Drakulon. Lilith has vanished
under mysterious circumstances leaving Vampirella-- who's never had
the best relationship with her mom-- torn between accepting
Lilith's disappearance or going to her rescue, which would require
her finding a way back to her home world. Caving in to the
inevitable, Vampirella has only one place she can begin her journey
-- the human she rescued from Drakulon all those years ago and
re-create the accident that brought him there. Contains Vampirella
#15 thru #19.
With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark
glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest
at The Coach and Horses - is at first assumed to be a shy
accident-victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far more
chilling: he has developed a process that has made him invisible,
and is locked in a struggle to discover the antidote. Forced from
the village, and driven to murder, he seeks the aid of an old
friend, Kemp. The horror of his fate has affected his mind, however
- and when Kemp refuse to help, he resolves to wreak his revenge.
Survivors of a terrible African war flee their blighted continent,
and look for refuge in the countries of the West. But Britain is
falling into civil war and anarchy. One of Christopher Priest's
earliest novels, FUGUE FOR A DARKENING ISLAND is a powerful work
whose subject matter has become increasingly relevant in recent
years.
In a world at war, the Dream Archipelago is a neutral zone, and
therefore an alluring prospect to the young men on both sides of
the conflict. In this interlinked collection of short stories and
novellas, Christopher Priest explores war, relationships and forms
of reality. Each tale is a truimph of quiet, steady craftsmanship,
a model of ingenious design and subtle implication, and as a group
they further enrich each other by interlocking cleverly,
symmetrically and sometimes sinisterly.
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