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Priest, Christopher. Entry updated 5 February 2024. Tagged: Author, Fan. (1943-2024) UK author, first trained as an accountant; active in Fanzines and Fandom from 1964; married 1981-1987 to Lisa Tuttle, 1988-2011 to Leigh Kennedy, and partner of Nina Allan from 2011 (they married in 2023). He published several Ties under various pseudonyms ...
5. Feb. 2024 · News Feb 5, 2024 by Heloise Wood. Christopher Priest. Science Fiction author Christopher Priest has died of cancer, aged 80, working until his final days on a biography of J G Ballard. The trade ...
2. Feb. 2024 · Christopher Priest passed away peacefully at home in the early evening of Friday, February 2nd 2024. He was eighty years old. In the weeks before he died, Chris several times expressed the wish to leave a farewell message here, but this was a task we kept putting off. It seemed altogether too sad, I did not feel equal to it, and in the end we ...
Biography. Christopher Priest was born in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, in 1943. He began writing soon after leaving school. His published career began with a series of short stories and other pieces that appeared in various outlets from the mid-1960s onwards. This a form he has continued to pursue alongside his novels and occasional non-fiction ...
Christopher Priest wurde 1943 in Cheshire, England geboren. Er zählt zu den bedeutendsten englischen Science-Fiction-Schriftstellern; seine Romane wurden mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet, unter anderem mit dem Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis und dem Arthur C. Clarke Award. »Inversion« erhielt den British Science Fiction Association Award. Für seinen Roman »The Prestige«, der 2006 von ...
Priest begann in den 1980er Jahren als Redakteur und Comicautor zu arbeiten. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit wurde ihm dabei vor allem aufgrund der Tatsache zuteil, dass er als erster Afroamerikaner eine Anstellung als leitender Redakteur bei einem der großen US-amerikanischen Comicverlage fand. Noch unter seinem Geburtsnamen Owsley verfasste er zu ...
4. Feb. 2024 · Christopher Priest (1943-2024) We are deeply sad to report that Christopher Priest died on 2 February 2024 aged 80. He had been diagnosed with untreatable cancer in August 2023 but made no public statement, informing only his family and selected friends. Although his fiction often inhabited a "slipstream" zone not precisely aligned with the sf ...
