The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J.G. Ballard, Christopher Priest & Nina Allan (Bloomsbury Continuum, 978-1399417495, £25.00, 496 pp, hc) April 2026. In his short story The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista (1962), J.G. Ballard devised the concept of the psychotropic house, a kind of physicalized biography through which new residents experienced the memories and narratives of former inhabitants. Elegantly fusing Ballard's enduring fascinations with psychoanalysis, architecture, and …Read More

A luminary of the field.

The Recollections, Christopher Priest (Briardene 978-1-7385617-4-2, £15.00, 334pp, tp) April 2026. Towards the end of the first decade of this century a new small press appeared on the scene. It was c...

The Recollections, Christopher Priest (Briardene 978-1-7385617-4-2, £15.00, 334pp, tp) April 2026. Briardene Books is a British imprint which has lately been publishing collections of work by some of our most intelligent and readable SFF critics – Paul Kincaid, Abigail Nussbaum, and Niall Harrison – but their newest title, Christopher Priest's The Recollections, is something a bit different. Completed largely by Priest before his death in 2024 and compiled in final …Read More

The Recollections, Christopher Priest (Briardene 978-1-7385617-4-2, £15.00, 334pp, tp) April 2026. Briardene Books is a British imprint which has lately been publishing collections of work by some of ...

The Recollections, Christopher Priest (Briardene 978-1-7385617-4-2, £15.00, 334pp, tp) April 2026. Briardene Books is a British imprint which has lately been publishing collections of work by some of ...

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