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The Adjacent Hardcover - 2014

by Priest, Christopher

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New York/London: Titan Books, 2014. First American edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket,. New York/London: Titan Books:, 2014. First American edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket, 374 pp. Priest. Pastor to his literary flock. . . including me. "Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled to Britain from Anatolia where his wife Melanie has been killed by insurgent militia. IRGB is a nation living in the aftermath of a bizarre and terrifying terrorist atrocity - hundreds of thousands were wiped out when a vast triangle of west London was instantly annihilated. The authorities think the terrorist attack and the death of Tarent's wife are somehow connected. A century earlier, a stage magician is sent to the Western Front on a secret mission to render British reconnaissance aircraft invisible to the enemy. On his journey to the trenches he meets the visionary who believes that this will be the war to end all wars. In 1943, a woman pilot from Poland tells a young RAF technician of her escape from the Nazis, and her desperate need to return home. In the present day, a theoretical physicist stands in his English garden and creates the first adjacency."
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  • Title The Adjacent
  • Author Priest, Christopher
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Later Edition
  • Condition Used - First American edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket,
  • Pages 377
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Titan Books, New York/London
  • Date 2014
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 53150
  • ISBN 9781781169438 / 1781169438
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.4 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 3.56 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Suspense fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

Christopher Priest is a leading figure in modern SF and fantasy. His novel The Islanders won both the BSFA Award and the John W. Campbell Award. The Separation won both the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the BSFA Award.

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"Priest dabbles in a puzzling, intriguing work worthy of the sort of highbrow magic act it endeavors to perform." - Leviathyn

"A great read." - ScienceFiction.com

"When The Adjacent finally explodes into a head-spinning blast of blurred reality, Priest contains the fallout — then he orchestrates it all a stunning denouement, one that readers accustomed to his unforeseen-yet-inevitable twists might not even be prepared for...Priest hides the answers to his metaphysical mysteries just up his sleeve, waiting for the most jaw-dropping time to spring them." - NPR

"Christopher Priest is very talented when it comes to telling stories and “The Adjacent” is no exception." - Imp Mag

"A fascinating writer." -  Big Shiny Robot 

"Interesting fantasy." - City of Films

“Unraveling it all is completely fascinating.” – San Francisco Book Review

"Science and magic, as in many of Priest’s works, are combined and focused together into a strange amalgamation of cold emotion and fiery passion creating a hurricane of a book." - Geek Girl Project

"A gripping novel." - Project Fandom

"Featuring the twists, turns, and puzzles we’ve come to expect from Priest." - Barnes & Noble Book Blog

"A chiller...meant to disturb." - Wall Street Journal

"all visions, illusions, mystery"...."a chiller...meant to disturb" - Wall Street Journal

"Stunning." - Locus Magazine

"Priest knows exactly what he’s doing — and is doing it brilliantly" - Chicago Tribune

"A wonderful piece of fiction, an intricate puzzle that asks the reader to pay 
close attention and to read not just the text, but the subtext and its implications" - Booklist  

"An absorbing and complex yarn of altered realities and twisted timelines, where nothing is quite as it seems ..." The Guardian

"One of the best novels of the year" SFX Magazine

"The Adjacent is puzzling, brilliant, frustrating, page-turning, disturbing and absorbing." WERTZONE

"A beautifully written novel." SCIFINOW

"Intoxicatingly freewheeling." Metro

"Thoroughly engrossing, and throughout Priest's scene-setting is impeccable. His descriptions of the workings of Bomber Command in the WWII section are worthy of Len Deighton. In the futuristic strand, he ... creates a mood of oppressive menace." Starburst Magazine

About the author

Christopher Priest is a leading figure in modern SF and fantasy. His novel The Islanders won both the BSFA Award and the John W. Campbell Award. The Separation won both the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the BSFA Award.

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