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A Dream of Wessex: Available Copies

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Richmond: Valancourt Books:, 2016. Trade paperback, New, 223 pp. Cover artwork by: Henry Petrides "The western democracies are disintegrating, scarred by violence and gripped with fear of terrorist attacks. Trying to find solutions to today's problems, Julia Stretton and other specialists at the Wessex Project have created a virtual reality projection of a utopian future where all current issues have been resolved - how did they achieve it? But on entering Wessex, they lose all memory of their 'real' lives outside, and as they move back and forth the lines between dream and reality become obscured. When Julia's ex-lover, the sadistic Paul Mason, joins the project, he has a sinister plan to take the Wessex projection to a new and terrifying level . " This is a print-on-demand title.

Paperback. Christopher Priest's artful sleight of hand when it comes to manipulating the experience of his books and notions of what is real reaches a peak in this novel that accounts the trials and tribulations of a group of people who have escaped into a utopian shared virtual reality known as Wessex. It is a world engineered to give them their every desire. But when one woman becomes subject to the violent attentions of a man who feels that she is everything he desires she must decide to fight back. Obsession and abuse of power can cross from the real world to the imagined all too easily.Thought by some to have been instrumental in the inspiration of the film Inception, A DREAM OF WESSEX is a classic in the literature of virtual realities and remains one of Chris Priest's most highly regarded novels. The classic novel of virtual realities by a multi-award-winning literary SF writer. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Novel set in Dorset and environs. 199 pp. Weight: 1 Language: English Book Club edition, originally published by Faber & Faber in 1977.

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A Dream of Wessex (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) 0.54

256 pages. 7.95x5.12x0.87 inches. In Stock.

Trade Paperback in very good condition. Unmarked with tanning to the interior page edges. ".reality or perception? What do we really know? This book spins these concepts and leaves you unsettled. A dream within the real world, or the world within a dream? Perhaps a dream within a dream? If you dream far enough can you come full circle?"; 0.63 x 7.64 x 4.96 Inches; 199 pages

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The classic novel of virtual realities by a multi-award-winning literary SF writer. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 242. . 2014. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

The classic novel of virtual realities by a multi-award-winning literary SF writer. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 242. . 2014. Paperback. . . . .

signed by the author 1st Wilhelm Heyne 1979 German edition paperback vg In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

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The Wessex Foundation, an electronic think-tank, brings an alternative reality to the participants. Only memory eludes them, for in Wessex nothing is constant except the castle. It stands, solid, a beacon, a gateway between centuries. The author's other novels include "The Glamour". The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

The Wessex Foundation, an electronic think-tank, brings an alternative reality to the participants. Only memory eludes them, for in Wessex nothing is constant except the castle. It stands, solid, a beacon, a gateway between centuries. The author's other novels include "The Glamour". A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

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© 1977: A stand-alone novel by Christopher Priest. 1st printing of 1978 edition. SFBC #1140:- Synopsis: "It is now clear that Mr Priest is not going to trot round and round the same old orbit but is a versatile, autonomous writer from whom we can expect nothing expectable". So said Ursula Le Guin in The Times Literary Supplement of Christopher Priest's previous novel 'The Space Machine'. In this new book he turns from romantic Victorian fantasy to a novel about, but not set in, the future. Escaping from a bitter, lacerating affair with Paul Mason, Julia Stretton starts work with the Wessex Foundation, an industrially funded electronic think-tank. In this, her preoccupations with her own past life are replaced by involvement with the future of Britain, and its role in the world. The work absorbs her; and Wessex, an imagined world of the future, becomes a surrogate reality, an expression of the psychological strengths she has lacked in her own life. But Mason, drawn to Julia by inner needs of his own, is determined to follow her, and several years later Julia has to confront him again. Now, though, there is more at stake. Wessex is more than a surrogate; for Julia, the dream has become real:- Review(s): "A novelist of distinction" was the description given to Christopher Priest by The Sunday Times, and 'A Dream Of Wessex' is his fifth novel. This is a book of evocative disparities: between the stresses of contemporary life and the tranquil, idyllic world of the imagines Wessex; between the emotional turbulence of possessive sexuality and a simple love-affair":- (original cost unmarked).