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Real-Time World
Thisis a re-issue of Christopher Priest’s
first short story collection, Real-Time World. Originally a hardback from
NEL in 1974, the book has been more or less unavailable ever since.
A volume of ten short stories with a
self-effacing author’s introduction and hardly a flat spot anywhere:
rare indeed. The first, ‘The Head and the Hand’, is a fabulously
disgusting Dahlesque story about a man who has made a fortune by
amputating bits of himself in front of dinner-jacketed audiences and
television cameras. Christopher Priest has the knack of hitting on a
single character, an inspired outsider, with a quirk or hang-up which
makes him constantly interesting.
(Times Literary Supplement)
As well as ‘The Head and the
Hand’, the book includes the much-anthologized stories ‘Fire Storm’, ‘Real-Time
World’ and Priest’s first-published story ‘The Run’. |
