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A Dream of Wessex is a 1977 science fiction novel by British writer Christopher Priest. In the United States it was released under the title The Perfect Lover . Synopsis. A Dream of Wessex can be read as a straightforward story about a group of twentieth-century dreamers who create a consensus virtual-reality future.
- Christopher Priest
- 199
- 1977
- Science fiction
5 ott 2022 · Internet Archive. Language. English. 223 pages ; 20 cm. The western democracies are disintegrating, scarred by violence and gripped with fear of terrorist attacks.
A Dream of Wessex can be read as a straightforward story about a group of present-day dreamers who create a consensus virtual reality future. Once they enter their imaginary world they are unable to remember who they are, or where they are from.
Christopher Priest: A Dream of Wessex (US: The Perfect Lover) A series of earthquakes and land subsidence has caused Wessex to be separated from mainland England. The new island had been left alone till mainland England had realized its potential as a tourist resort and had exploited it accordingly.
13 nov 2014 · A Dream of Wessex. 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...
- Christopher Priest
- Orion, 2014
- 057512167X, 9780575121676
- A Dream of Wessex
Written in 1977, Christopher Priest’s A Dream of Wessex stands at the midpoint of media questioning reality. Falling on the tail end of Philip Dick and his oeuvre’s continual exploration of metaphysical meaning, A Dream of Wessex is also an (unheralded) fore-runner to science fiction featuring uncertain realities that followed in the 1990’s.
3 feb 2016 · A Dream of Wessex. London: Faber and Faber. U.S. ed. as The Perfect Lover. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1977. PSt. The novel presents a future (2135-37) after a series of earthquakes has destroyed much of Britain, and it is a Soviet state, generally presented neutrally.
