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The
Affirmation
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Published
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Gollancz, 2006. ISBN 0 575 07577 5 [paperback
£7.99; pp.247] First published in hardcover by Faber (1981).
Also available in translation. |
What they say
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"... a brilliant and sustained novel of imaginative power. I have no hesitation whatsoever in commending it to you as one of the best sf novels I have read and, indeed, as one of the best novels of the
year." - Joseph Nicholas, Vector. |
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| One of Chris Priest's most startling
novels, in which the convoluted story at times seems to threaten the reader's
own hold on reality. Peter Sinclair, a young man enduring what he sees as a
personal crisis, tries to make sense of his life by writing it down as a
fictional story. In the story he depicts himself as the winner of a lottery,
where the jackpot prize is a complex medical and neural operation that will
ensure life ever after. As he writes, working ever deeper into his psyche,
Sinclair finds that his two identities are starting to merge. |