Under the pseudonym Colin Wedgelock, Christopher Priest novelised the film Short Circuit in 1986.
“I CAN NO LONGER TAKE A PLOT seriously enough to go with it as a bare plot,” said novelist Christopher Priest in 1995. “I’m always thinking: where’s the flaw in this, where does the idea leak? Unreliability soon starts creeping in, and I cheer up no end.”
An expert in subversion, Priest dealt in delusions and misrememberings, taking readers to sideways worlds and dislocated realities. Born in Cheadle, Cheshire, he grew up reading science fiction but always resisted being boxed in by the genre. Part of the British New Wave literary scene, his contemporaries included JG Ballard, an admitted influence on his own slippery narratives that teased and pushed the possibilities of mainstream fiction.