So, my next book will be about Christopher Priest and will be published by Gylphi, which is something that makes me inordinately pleased. I’ve started the reading and note taking that inevitably accompanies such a task. But I’ve also put together a chronology of his books and short stories, just as a way of keeping everything straight in my mind. And I realised as I was putting it together that there are gaps. I don’t just mean the pseudonymous stuff (I’ve only included the work he has acknowledged), but there are other gaps. I’m missing the Sally Gunnell book he was ghostwriter on, and I’m sure there are stories missing, also odd details such as where “The Discharge” first appeared. Therefore, if you can fill in any of the gaps, or add more details to this list, I would be very grateful.
The dates given are date of first publication, except for the stories that first appeared in Ersatz Wines. In those cases I have given the date of composition in [square brackets].
[1963] Going Native Ersatz Wines, Nov 63
[1964] Stranglehold Ersatz Wines, Mar 64
[1964] Star Child Ersatz Wines, Nov 64
[1965] The Witch-Burners Ersatz Wines, Jan 65
[1965] Nicolson’s Repentances Ersatz Wines, Oct 65
[1965] Combined Operation Ersatz Wines, Nov 65
[1965] The Ostrich Seed Ersatz Wines, Nov 65
1966 The Run Impulse 3, May 66
1966 Conjugation New Worlds 169, Dec 66 [May 66]
[1967] Chance Ersatz Wines, Apr 67
1967 Impasse SF Impulse 12, Feb 67 [Sep 65]
1967 The Ersatz Wine New Worlds 171, Mar 67 [Mar 66]
1969 The Interrogator New Writings in SF 15 [Jan 68]
1970 Breeding Ground Vision of Tomorrow 4, Jan 70
1970 Nothing Like the Sun Vision of Tomorrow, Jul 70
1970 Fire Storm Quark 1
1970 Double Consummation The Disappearing Future
1970 The Perihelion Man New Writings in SF 16
1970 Indoctrinaire
1971 Sentence in Binary Code Fantastic Stories 20:6, Aug 71
1971 Real-Time World New Writings in SF 19
1972 Charlie was a Bastard Oz Magazine 41, Mar/Apr 72
1972 The Head and the Hand New Worlds Quarterly 3
1972 Fugue for a Darkening Island
1974 Transplant Worlds of If, Feb 74
1974 A Woman Naked Science Fiction Monthly 1:1, Feb 74
1974 The Inverted World New Writings in SF 22
1974 The Invisible Men Stopwatch
1974 Inverted World
1974 Real-Time World (coll)
1974 Your Book of Film Making
1976 An Infinite Summer Andromeda 1
1976 Men of Good Value New Writings in SF 26
1976 The Space Machine
1977 A Dream of Wessex
1978 The Watched F&SF 54, Apr 78
1978 The Negation Anticipations
1978 Whores New Dimensions 8
1978 Anticipations (ed)
1979 Palely Loitering F&SF 56, Jan 79
1979 Static Gravity Omni 1:7, Apr 79
1979 The Agent (+ David Redd) Aries 1
1979 The Cremation Andromeda 3
1979 The Making of the Lesbian Horse (chap)
1979 An Infinite Summer (coll)
1979 Stars of Albion (ed, + Robert Holdstock)
1980 The Miraculous Cairn New Terrors 2
1981 The Affirmation
1984 The Glamour
1985 The Ament Seven Deadly Sins
1986 Short Circuit (as Colin Wedgelock)
1986 Mona Lisa (as John Luther Novak)
1987 The Last Deadloss Visions (chap)
1990 The Quiet Woman
1993 Seize the Moment (with Helen Sharman)
1994 The Book on the Edge of Forever
1995 The Prestige
1996 The Glamour (revised)
1998 The Extremes
1999 The Equatorial Moment The Dream Archipelago
1999 The Dream Archipelago (coll)
1999 eXistenZ (as John Luther Novak)
2000 The Discharge [online ?]
2002 The Separation
2008 Ersatz Wines (coll)
2008 The Magic
2008 “IT” Came from Outer Space
2009 Real-Time World +2 (coll)
2009 The Trace of Him The Dream Archipelago
2009 The Sorting Out The New Uncanny
2009 The Dream Archipelago (coll, revised)
2011 The Islanders
2011 Fugue for a Darkening Island (revised)
2013 The Adjacent
2016 The Gradual
2017 Shooting an Episode 2084
I have not (yet) included the new novel or the new short story collection, mostly because I’m not exactly sure when they are due to appear. But if you spot any other gaps, I would be really appreciative if you would help me plug them.
Through the dark labyrinth 