'The story is among those seldom found, incredibly readable narratives that the reader aches to continue reading.' - Jersey Journal Rudy Rucker is equally known for his arithmetically generated science-fiction novels.' - Independent on Sunday 'A marvelous thought experiment in which our familiar spherical world is replaced by a hyperboloid one. A well-structured, finely written, mature narrative that is very compelling and thoroughly entertaining. 'A science fiction mystery story about a world whose 'secret' is as incredible, but as acceptable, to its readers as it is to its characters -which if you think about it is one of the highest compliments a critic can pay to a novel. ' The Inverted World reads like a classic science fiction book-the physical concepts of the world in which it takes place are filled with a sense of wonder.' - San Francisco Signal ' Inverted World will be remembered for many years, I would guess, as one of the few science fiction novels of the 1970s to come up with a new idea.' - Foundation 'A marvellous thought experiment.' - The Independent 'The author has created a unique and original world.' - Publishers Weekly

'The most famous book from those days, Inverted World.upended existence, revealed a planet to be infinite, in a finite universe between its poles, pressure warped every dimension of the body.' - Guardian You finish this novel appreciating our culture's efforts to protect its collective memories and also worried that everything we take for granted can easily be lost.' - Los Angeles Times 'This book shows us a community plunged into ignorance, trying to understand its place.

Escher, Priest's book is an engine of epiphany, and a formal marvel: a narrative in the exact shape of the conundrum it presents.' -Jonathan Lethem 'A somber psychedelic journey through a landscape that seems a collaboration between Breugel the Elder and M.C. In this devilishly entertaining 1974 novel, Priest tells of a city called Earth that must perpetually move on rails to escape its hyperboloid planet's oppressive gravity.' - Time Out New York his well-crafted books play fun tricks on the reader. Christopher Priest's reissued novel Inverted World presents the reader with a city surrounded by high walls and a populace unaware that the entire polis sits upon tracks, pulled by a giant winch in order to stay ahead of a crushing, slowly moving gravity field.You feel the kind of surprise and exhilaration here that you do when a magician reveals (though they're not supposed to) the simple method behind an illusion.' - Los Angeles Times

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