Christopher Priest

‘The best account yet of the life of one of the great English-language writers of the last century.’ – The New World 'A brave and moving book' - Adam Sisman, the Guardian ‘Fascinating...very timely ...will introduce new readers to a writer Priest rightly calls one of the greatest of the 20th century.’ – Sunday Times This book is about J. G. Ballard. This book is also about death, love and time travel. J. G. Ballard possessed one of the most astonishing imaginations of our age, and he had an intense and turbulent history – an experience famously fictionalised in Empire of the Sun. Ballard’s novels are among the finest and most unusual fiction that has ever been published. Whether in the hyper-surrealism of High-Rise or the erotic violence of Crash, he upended the morality and reality of our world. As a young writer, it had been Ballard’s stories, most of all, that had helped cement Christopher Priest’s passion for science fiction. He set out to write a biography that would make people understand what he already knew: that J. G. Ballard wasn’t just a cult writer — he was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. In 2024, Christopher died. He had been diagnosed with prostate cancer, the same disease that killed J. G. Ballard — the man whose biography he’d spent his last months working on. When Nina and Christopher first met, they bonded over their love for Ballard’s writing. When it became clear that Christopher would not have time to finish this biography, Nina promised him that she would complete it. If the book began as a tribute from Priest to Ballard, it is now also a love story written by Nina for Christopher. With access to never-before-seen material, The Illuminated Man explores the history and themes of Ballard’s life and – with Ballardian strangeness – celebrates and mourns for those that are gone.

The only way to prevent an apocalypse is for Vampirella to give her infant back to Draculina — and Vampirella may be willing to watch the whole world burn before losing her baby again! Vampirella’s infant son, stolen by her evil twin Draculina, has finally been returned to her. But Vampi hasn’t bonded with the baby and sees him as a stranger, and the resulting pain sends her spiraling into a severe postpartum depression. Just as things feel like they couldn’t get any worse, a mysterious figure named Cicero arrives, claiming to be her grown-up child transported back from the future — a cataclysmic time in which Vampirella, consumed by bitterness, unleashes a nuclear holocaust! The only way to prevent this apocalypse is to give her infant back to Draculina — and Vampirella may be willing to watch the whole world burn before losing her baby again! The legendary Vampirella creative team of author CHRISTOPHER PRIEST and artist ERGÜN GÜNDÜZ return for a brand-new chapter in their ongoing saga of the Daughter of Drakulon!

Christopher Priest and Joe Quesada reunite to present their vision of the future, Marvel Knights style The King of Wakanda is dead, leaving unguarded the world's most advanced technology, its most precious metal and a cryptic vault of dark secrets -- while triggering global conflicts among Marvel's heroes, villains and mutants. With T'Challa gone, a final tribal challenge for the Wakandan throne will determine the future of the Marvel Universe. But what is happening in Mexico? And what does Everett K. Ross have to do with it? MARVEL KNIGHTS visionary creators Joe Quesada and Christopher Priest (BLACK PANTHER) present THE WORLD TO COME -- and the shocking secrets of how it got that way COLLECTING: Marvel Knights: the World to Come (2025) #1-6.

BAPTISM OF FIRE! In a contest to decide the fate of the world, the ancient (and codependent) gods The Light and The Dark transport Maggie Sutherland, a young British clerk, from the year 2025 into the wilds of Hyboria, where she awakens transformed into the renowned Hyrkanian Bellatrix Red Sonja. Thrown headlong into a realm of gods and monsters, Maggie must quickly learn how to survive both the harsh environment and the constant threats posed by friends and foes alike as she struggles to find her way home. Legendary comics writer CHRISTOPHER PRIEST (Vampirella, Black Panther, Conan) and artist ALESSANDRO MIRACOLO rebuild the crimson-maned warrior from the inside out in Sonja Reborn — a riveting reinterpretation of her hero’s journey that reveals what it might actually take for a single woman to survive in a brutal world of sorcery and barbarism!

This book is about J. G. Ballard. This book is also about death, love and time travel. In 2024, Nina Allan’s husband, the novelist Christopher Priest died. He had been diagnosed with prostate cancer, which had metastasised into the bones, the same disease that killed the man whose biography he’d spent his last months working on — the cult author, J. G. Ballard. J. G. Ballard possessed one of the most astonishing imaginations of our age, and he had an intense and turbulent history: a childhood spent in the encroaching shadow of World War II, teenage internment in a Japanese prison camp – an experience famously fictionalised in Empire of the Sun. Ballard’s novels are among the finest and most unusual fiction that has ever been published. Whether in the hyper-surrealism of High Rise or the erotic violence of Crash, he upended the morality and reality of our world. Christopher knew many of Ballard’s friends and colleagues personally. As a young writer, it had been Ballard’s stories, most of all, that had helped cement his passion for science fiction. With much of their early work published in the same magazines, Priest knew about Ballard’s world from the inside. He set out to write a biography that would make people understand what he already knew: that J. G. Ballard wasn’t just a cult writer — he was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. When Nina and Christopher first met, they bonded over their love for Ballard’s writing, rereading his novels and stories together many times. When it became clear that Christopher would not have time to finish this biography, Nina promised him that she would complete it, patching together with her own voice the gaps that remained. If the book began as a tribute from Priest to Ballard, it is now also a love story written by Nina for Christopher. With access to never-before-seen material, The Illuminated Man explores the history and themes of Ballard’s life and – with Ballardian strangeness – celebrates and mourns for those that are gone. This is the story of two deaths, three science fiction writers and one attempt to turn back time.

The greatest hero in sword-and-sorcery history! This epic omnibus chronicles the on-going adventures of the legend that is Conan and features over 680 pages of digitally remastered artwork and a bonus section of rarely seen artwork. The seventh volume in this popular Omnibus series collects the first half of Christopher J. Priest's legendary run on Conan the Barbarian as he assembles a cast of engaging supporting characters around Conan, including the haunted Tetra and the courageous Captain Delmuro, sending them in pursuit of treasure held by the wicked thief, Keiv. Priest also introduces to the color series one of the great super-villains in Marvel's Conan mythos - the Devourer of Souls. The dark reaver is one of Conan's most formidable foes, and their legendary battles begin here! This 7th volume collects issues Conan the Barbarian (1970) #172-194, Conan the Barbarian Annual (1973) #10-11.

Following the shattering events of Vampirella Beyond, Dark World opens a dark new chapter for the Daughters of Drakulon. Draculina is compelled to switch realities with her evil alternative self Katie, and is imprisoned in the astral plane known as “The Dark World” — where she is hunted through the streets of 1969 New York City by malicious creatures she herself created as a child! The Dark World, which responds to the subconscious of those trapped within it, has produced a hell of Draculina’s own making. But one of the living constructs who seem to exist only to torment her may hold the key to her survival! Written by comics legend CHRISTOPHER PRIEST and illustrated by special guest artist IVÁN F. SILVA.

Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. Winner of the World Fantasy Award and inspiration for the hit Christopher Nolan movie, genre master Christopher Priest's The Prestige is now available in a modern Tor Essentials repackage. In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent s ance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose one another. Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers, but with terrible consequences. In the course of pursuing each other's ruin, they will deploy all the deception their magicians' craft can command--the highest misdirection and the darkest science. Blood will be spilled, but it will not be enough. In the end, their legacy will pass on for generations...to descendants who must, for their sanity's sake, untangle the puzzle left to them. With a new introduction by John Clute

To celebrate the start of Vampirella’s sixth decade, CHRISTOPHER PRIEST and ERGÜN GÜNDÜZ continue their legendary run on the series with a mind-bending new story. This explosive tale opens with a bang as Vampirella is murdered by a mysterious blonde woman who looks exactly like her — only to awaken, alive again and surrounded by her husband, friends, and pseudo-superhero mom Lilith. All seems normal and right with the world, except for her nagging suspicion that none of it actually is — and the fact that she keeps being murdered, over and over, by that strange blonde! Strap in for our weirdest yarn yet as “Beyond” takes everyone’s favorite space vampire into a whole new world — one that she herself may have created! Contains issues 666 thru 670.

To celebrate the bygone era of Pulp magazines, Crazy 8 Press has assembled a stellar line-up of writers to produce new thrills and chills, spanning mystery, sword and sorcery, horror, science fiction, romance, and adventures. We will take you to other worlds, other realms, and other times where heroes and heroines battled for justice or survival or just getting through the day. THRILL TO BRAND-NEW STORIES FROM: Dan Abnett Charles Ardai Liz Braswell Russ Colchamiro Win Scott Eckert Mary Fan Michael Jan Friedman Paul Kupperberg Elliot S Maggin Jeffrey J. Mariotte Bobby Nash Christopher Priest Aaron Rosenberg Hildy Silverman William F. Wu Each yarn is a thrilling adventure all its own

Picking up where Vampirella: Year One left off, Vampirella/Dracula: Rage presents Vampirella as you’ve never seen her before. Inconsolable grief hardens into unquenchable rage as Vampirella tracks the cultists who threaten her son across Europe and America, unsettling political and economic alliances and unraveling the global network of the baby’s father — Dracula! In a macabre exchange of norms, it is Dracula, the Lord of Vampires, who now hunts the elusive Vampiri in an effort to save Vampirella from herself — or, more precisely, to save her from becoming like him. To this end, Dracula recruits Victory, once Vampirella’s closest friend, to act as his ersatz Renfield while they try (and fail) to anticipate the next moves of a woman whose anger has now completely consumed her. This bold new limited series bookends Vampirella/Dracula: Unholy, bringing Vampirella’s conflict with the Prince of Darkness to its ultimate conclusion and setting up a dramatic change in direction for the Daughter of Drakulon! Contains Vampirella/Dracula: Rage issues 1 thru 6

Vampirella’s hateful, self-absorbed twin is back in a new volume and this time her Vampire Privilege entitlement is failing her as Vampirette, her preteen other-self, has become a literal mirror image of the life she could have had and person should could have become if she wasn’t, y’know, Draculina. Also: Lilith has returned and the meddling vampire Mom from Hell is determined to reunite her estranged daughters while Levi, a murderous sea creature, intends to crash the family reunion!