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Inverted World

Christopher Priest

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#828 of 8,085 books · #148 in Science Fiction

Won the BSFA Award for Best Novel (1974). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

Inverted World won the BSFA Award for best novel in 1974. On a planet whose very nature is a mystery a massive decrepit city is pulled along a massive railway track, laying the line down before it as it progresses into the wilderness. The society within toils under an oppressive regime, its structures always on the point of collapse, the lives of its individuals lived in misery. No one knows where they are going, why they are going or what they will find when they get there. The ending of the novel provides one of the most profound twists in SF.

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Publisher
Faber and Faber
ISBN-13
9780575088689
Topics
Society in decayPerception of realitySurvival and exploration

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