For background, I'd suggest you take a look at his Wikipedia entry or, if you have a copy, check the entry for Chris written by Peter Nicholls and John Clute in which Inverted World is described as "one of the two or three most impressive pure-sf novels produced in the UK since World War Two". He's one of only a handful of British writers (Ballard, Aldiss and Moorcock being the others) whose in-genre work can sit comfortably on a bookshop's mainstream shelves and critics can write about it without squirming as they desperately try not to be seen praising a science fiction novel; after all, Chris Priest's novels are superbly written, complexly plotted and anyone who writes about characters and the relationships between them... I mean, they can't be writing science fiction, can they?
Chris Priest has recently set up his own publishing company, GrimGrin Studio, to publish new editions of some out-of-print books and a number of non-fiction titles.
I've incorporated a number of pseudonymous novels into the following gallery. I think it's complete, although I should note that the author has denied using some of these names at various times (and confirmed some at other times).
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NEL 0-450-00918-1, Nov 1971. Cover by Bruce Pennington
Pan 0-330-25608-4, Jan 1979.
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NEL 0-450-00686-7, Jul 1971; Jul 1971; Nov 1972.
NEL 0-450-01476-2, May 1973.
NEL 0-450-02709-0, May 1975.
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NEL 0-450-01575-0, Sep 1973. Cover by Ray Feibush
Pan 0-330-25544-4, Nov 1978. Cover by Mike Ploog.
Gollancz 978-0575-09820-6, 2011, ix+196pp.
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NEL 0-450-01081-3, May 1972; Jul 1972; Feb 1973
NEL 0-450-02281-1, Dec 1974.
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NEL 0-450-01442-8, May 1973.
---- [2nd imp.] Jun 1973.
---- [3rd imp.] 1974
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NEL 0-450-01645-5, Nov 1973
---- [2nd imp.] Mar 1974.
NEL 0-450-02398-2 [3rd imp.], Apr 1975.
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NEL 0-450-01806-7, May 1974.
---- [2nd imp.] 1975.
Pan 0-330-25660-2, Apr 1979, 85p. Cover by Terry Oakes
Gollancz (Classic SF 13) 0575-03993-0, 1987, 250pp.
Gollancz (SF Masterworks) 9780-0575-08210-6, Jan 2010, ix+303pp. Cover by Chris Moore
---- [2nd imp.] n.d.
---- [3rd imp.] n.d., ix+303pp, £8.99.
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Real-Time World (Faber & Faber, 1975)
NEL 0-450-02141-6, Oct 1974. Cover by Ray Feibush
NEL 0-450-02432-6, Feb 1976. (same as above?)
[revised edition] GrimGrin Studios, 0-955-97353-8, Nov 2008.
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Futura/Orbit 0-8600-7939-2, Mar 1977. Cover by Chris Foss
Pan 0-330-26345-5, May 1981.
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A Dream of Wessex (1977)
Pan 0-330-25543-6, Nov 1978. Cover by Geoff Taylor?
Abacus 0-349-12811-1, Jul 1987, 199pp, £4.50. Cover by Nick Bantock
Pan 0-330-26048-0, Jun 1980.
Birmingham Science Fiction Group, 1979.
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The Affirmation (1981)
Vintage/Arena 0099-30680-8, (Feb) 1983, 213pp, £2.50. Cover by Adler
Gollancz/VGSF (VGSF Classics 29) 0575-04283-4, (Dec) 1988, 213pp, £2.99. Cover by Geoffrey Gove
Gollancz 0575-07577-5, (Feb) 2006, 247pp, £7.99.
Gollancz (SF Masterworks) 978-0575-08846-3, (Oct) 2011, vii+247pp, £7.99. Cover by Tyler Stalman
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Touchstone 0-684-81755-1, Sep 1996.
Gollancz 0-575-07580-5, 2004 [Feb 2005], 360pp, £7.99. Cover photos by Getty Images
Gollancz 0-575-07906-1, Nov 2006, 360pp, £7.99. Cover: Still/photo. MTI edition.
Gollancz (SF Masterworks) 978-0575- 09941-8, 2011, ix+369pp.
Scribner 0-684-81941-4, 1999. Cover by Holly Warburton
Gollancz 0-575-07578-3, (Sep) 2005, 314pp, £7.99. Cover photo by Zefa Images
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The Dream Archipelago
Earthlight 0-671-03388-3, May 1999.
Gollancz 0-575-08436-7, Mar 2009, 303pp, £7.99. Cover design by Sidonie Beresford-Browne
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Scribner 0743-22033-1, Aug 2002.
Gollancz 0575-07003-X, Feb 2004.
Gollancz 0575-08115-5, Aug 2007.
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GrimGrin Studios 978-095597354-3, 2008.
The Islanders (Gollancz, 2011)
Gollancz 978-0575-08864-1, 2012.
The Adjacent (Gollancz, 2013)
Gollancz 978-0575-10538-6, Apr 2014, 419pp, 8.99. Cover by Us Now
The Gradual (Gollancz, 2016)
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Non-Fiction
Faber, 1974.
Gollancz, 1993.
Gollancz, Nov 1994.
Birmingham Science Fiction Group, Nov 2000.
GrimGrin Studio, Sep 2008.
"IT" Came from Outer Space: Occasional Pieces 1973-2008 (GrimGrin Studio, 2010)
"IT" Came from Outer Space: Occasional Pieces 1973-2008 (GrimGrin Studio, 2010)
Anthologies
Faber, 1978.
(* Most of the above books are available via Amazon. With thanks to John Herrington and Phil Stevensen-Payne for some additional covers.)
There are some ghostwritten biographies too - Helen Sharman's -http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seize-Moment-Autobiography-Helen-Sharman/dp/0575056282/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228139102&sr=1-1(very characteristically Priestian prose), Sally Gunnell's - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Running-Tall-Sally-Gunnell/dp/0747521093/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228139025&sr=1-1, at least one football book, I think. Plus also "Your Book of Film Making" - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Your-Book-Film-Making/dp/0571104630/ref=sr_1_54?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228139187&sr=1-54.
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