New Releases by Christopher Priest

The most demanded return in comics is finally here! The original Quantum and?Woody are back! Legendary creators Christopher Priest (Black Panther) and M.D.?Bright (Iron Man) return to one of the most acclaimed series of the modern era! Whatever happened to the world?s worst superhero team? Twenty years past their prime, the unlikely crime-fighting duo known as Quantum and Woody (not a couple) have long since parted ways?until a middle-aged Quantum suddenly reappears with a brand-new teenage partner. Now Woody is out to break up the all-new, all different Quantum and Woody and put an end to Quantum?s recklessness?just as Quantum takes on a life-or-death personal mission for national security. Can these former friends set aside their differences?and their age?and their numerous health difficulties?to join forces one last time without driving each other crazy? Collecting?Q2: THE RETURN OF QUANTUM AND WOODY #1?5?in trade paperback as a perfect companion to the?QUANTUM AND WOODY BY PRIEST & BRIGHT?collections!

The most demanded return in comics is finally here! The original Quantum and Woody are back! Legendary creators Christopher Priest (Black Panther) and M.D. Bright (Iron Man) return to one of the most acclaimed series of the modern era! Whatever happened to the worldÕs worst superhero team? Twenty years past their prime, the unlikely crime-fighting duo known as Quantum and Woody (not a couple) have long since parted waysÉuntil a middle-aged Quantum suddenly reappears with a brand-new teenage partner. Now Woody is out to break up the all-new, all different Quantum and Woody and put an end to QuantumÕs recklessnessÉjust as Quantum takes on a life-or death personal mission for national security. Can these former friends set aside their differencesÉand their ageÉand their numerous health difficultiesÉto join forces one last time without driving each other crazy? Collecting Q2: THE RETURN OF QUANTUM AND WOODY #1Ð5 in trade paperback as a perfect companion to the QUANTUM AND WOODY BY PRIEST & BRIGHT collections!

It''s Black Panther vs. Iron Man (with Wolverine in the middle) in the blockbuster sequel to Enemy of the State II! Secrets are revealed, punches are thrown and King Solomon''s Frogs wreak havoc...but who is the second Panther? Plus: Flash forward to T''Challa''s old age, where the once and future king has washed his hands of the outside world. Will he come out of retirement to save Everett K. Ross'' life? And travel back to the Old West, as T''Challa finds himself in the middle of 1986''s THOR #370! COLLECTING: BLACK PANTHER (1998) #36-49, #57-58; INCREDIBLE HULK (2000) #33; THOR (1966) #370; MATERIAL FROM MARVEL DOUBLE-SHOT #2.

When a young Victorian couple inadvertently tamper with Sir William Reynolds''s latest invention, a time-space machine, they find themselves flung not only into the future but also across the void of space. Now, trapped on an alien world with a landscape of weird vegetation and overseen by giant, long-legged machines operated by gruesome octopus-like creatures, they must find a way to survive. And when they learn that the monsters are plotting an invasion of Earth, can they find a way to return home and save the planet? Written as a tribute to H.G. Wells and drawing on elements of his celebrated novels The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, Christopher Priest''s The Space Machine (1976) is a thrilling adventure that ranks among his most enjoyable works. "This is an astonishing change of pace for Mr. Priest, and one which extends his powers in ways which reveal him as one of the best and most persuasive young British writers." - The Times (London) "First rate ... science fiction at its best!" - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner "A novel that is unusual for its kind, a science fiction story with recognizable characters and a sense of style, atmosphere and humour. Imaginative and full of amusing curiosities." - Sunday Express

DC''s next wave of 80-Page Giants begins with this one-shot tying into the "Chain Lightning" storyline and featuring a story of THE KINGDOM''s Kid Flash! Explore the many ages of The Flash as 13-year-old Wally West gets some help from the Golden Age Flash as he foils some crafty collectibles crooks; Kid Flash helps his fellow Teen Titans battle an aging epidemic and Wally attempts to juggle his new responsibilities as The Flash. Plus, Flash teams with Captain Cold and the Golden Glider.

A collection of tales starring the Fastest Heroes Alive! Wally West is featured in two stories of his life in the fast lane. Golden Age Flash Jay Garrick stars in a tale of another time. Jesse Quick confronts her perceptions of her abilities as a hero in a confrontation with Captain Boomerang, and Max Mercury teams with a legendary sports hero.

The western democracies are disintegrating, scarred by violence and gripped with fear of terrorist attacks. Trying to find solutions to today''s problems, Julia Stretton and other specialists at the Wessex Project have created a virtual reality projection of a utopian future where all current issues have been resolved - how did they achieve it? But on entering Wessex, they lose all memory of their ''real'' lives outside, and as they move back and forth the lines between dream and reality become obscured. When Julia''s ex-lover, the sadistic Paul Mason, joins the project, he has a sinister plan to take the Wessex projection to a new and terrifying level . . . Christopher Priest''s fifth novel, A Dream of Wessex (1977), is a classic of science fiction that will keep readers guessing until the startling, mind-bending conclusion. Priest''s novels The Space Machine, The Affirmation, and The Separation are also available from Valancourt. ''[An] excellent and intriguing novel ... the characters and their emotions are real, the concepts fascinating, and the sense of foreboding almost unbearable.'' - Library Journal ''This fine novel about time-unravellers has hallucinatory powers ... Priest is a novelist of real distinction.'' - The Times (London) ''Christopher Priest is one of our most gifted young writers of science fiction. I recommend A Dream of Wessex. I can best convey its quality by saying that I think not only H.G. Wells but Thomas Hardy himself would have enjoyed and approved of it.'' - John Fowles, author of The Magus ''It is a strange novel, technically very assured in its shifts of time and handling of place-in-time, sketching in the edges of the dream with considerable vividness. A fine, exciting novel - SF if you want a label, but an enrichment not only of the sub-genre, but the whole genre too.'' - The Guardian

This is it, folks! From the legendary creative team of Christopher Priest (Black Panther, Deadpool) and M.D. Bright (Green Lantern, Iron Man), itÕs the third volume of Quantum and WoodyÕs groundbreaking original series, collected in trade paperback for the very first time! An old enemy returned. An old friend dead at his hands. Once forced to be partners by the life changing accident that gave them their powers or dissipate forever if they didnÕt ÒklangÓ their control bands together every 24 hours, Quantum and Woody now have an even more important reason to work together: payback. Suited up and armed to the teeth, theyÕre taking the war onto international arms dealer Terrence MagnumÕs home turf. They aim to make him pay for the murder of Taylor 88, and to prove theyÕre the last things anyone ever thought they could beÉ Heroes. Collecting QUANTUM AND WOODY (1997) #14Ð21, and #32 along with rarely seen materials from QUANTUM AND WOODY: MAGNUM FORCE TP.

The most demanded return in comics is finally here! The original Quantum and Woody are back! Legendary creators Christopher Priest (Black Panther) and MD Bright (Iron Man) return to one of the most acclaimed series of the modern era for an all-new mini-series! Whatever happened to the worldÕs worst superhero team? Twenty years past their prime, the unlikely crime-fighting duo known as Quantum and Woody (not a couple) have long since parted waysÉuntil a middle-aged Quantum suddenly reappears with a brand-new teenage partner. Now Woody is out to break up the all-new, all different Quantum and Woody and put an end to QuantumÕs recklessnessÉjust as Quantum takes on a life-or-death personal mission for national security. Can these former friends set aside their differencesÉand their ageÉand their numerous health difficultiesÉto join forces one last time without driving each other crazy? Collecting Q2: THE RETURN OF QUANTUM AND WOODY #1Ð5 in a deluxe, oversized hardcover format for a perfect shelf companion to the QUANTUM AND WOODY: THE COMPLETE CLASSIC OMNIBUS!

From legendary creators Christopher Priest (Black Panther, Deadpool) and MD Bright (Green Lantern, Iron Man) comes the next genre-colliding trade paperback collection of the complete adventures of the original world?s worst superhero team! Once estranged friends, now reluctant crime fighting partners, Eric Henderson and Woody Van Chelton are making the best of things. Forced to ?klang? their control bands together every 24 hours by the disastrous lab accident that gave them their powers or have their bodies? dissipate forever, the two have teamed up and shacked up with the people they get along with least ? each other! But when bomb-wielding terrorists leave Woody at death?s door and the experimental super-science procedure to save his life leaves Woody and Quantum trapped in each other?s bodies, they?ll have to put their differences aside and learn how to walk a mile in each other?s shoes?literally. Collecting QUANTUM AND WOODY (1997) #8?13 and THE GOAT: H.A.E.D.U.S. #1, along with rarely seen materials from QUANTUM AND WOODY: HOLY S-WORD WE?RE CANCELLED TPB.

From legendary creators Christopher Priest (Black Panther, Deadpool) and MD Bright (Green Lantern, Iron Man) comes the next genre-colliding trade paperback collection of the complete adventures of the original world''s worst superhero team! Once estranged friends, now reluctant crime fighting partners, Eric Henderson and Woody Van Chelton are making the best of things. Forced to "klang" their control bands together every 24 hours by the disastrous lab accident that gave them their powers or have their bodies'' dissipate forever, the two have teamed up and shacked up with the people they get along with least Ð each other! But when bomb-wielding terrorists leave Woody at death''s door and the experimental super-science procedure to save his life leaves Woody and Quantum trapped in each other''s bodies, they''ll have to put their differences aside and learn how to walk a mile in each other''s shoes...literally. Collecting QUANTUM AND WOODY (1997) #8Ð13 and THE GOAT: H.A.E.D.U.S. #1, along with rarely seen materials from QUANTUM AND WOODY: HOLY S-WORD WE''RE CANCELLED TPB.

The complete collected adventures of the original world?s worst superhero team ? now in trade paperback! Re-presenting the seminal series from legendary creators Christopher Priest (Black Panther,?Deadpool) and MD Bright (Green Lantern,?Iron Man) one volume at time, discover the groundbreaking series that Kotaku calls ?one of the funniest superhero comics ever? with an all-new edition collecting Quantum and Woody?s origin and disastrous early adventures! Sometimes the best friends make the worst partners. Once inseparable, childhood friends Eric Henderson and Woody Van Chelton haven?t seen each other in years. Reunited by the mysterious deaths of their research scientist fathers, the unlikely duo find themselves stuck together all over again when a catastrophic lab accident transforms their bodies into pure energy ? energy that will completely dissipate if they don?t ?klang!? their control bands together every 24-hours! Now, armed with an array of high-tech gadgets...and two horribly mismatched personalities...and a goat for a sidekick...this pair of misfits has decided to set the world straight as the world?s worst superhero team, Quantum and Woody...if they can manage to quit fighting each other first! Collecting QUANTUM AND WOODY (1997) #0?7, plus rarely seen materials and extras from QUANTUM AND WOODY: THE DIRECTOR?S CUT TP

This is the future of horror! Editor Jonathan Oliver, fast becoming the most exciting new anthologist of the weird and horrific, here brings together three of his award-winning anthologies for Solaris. Here are House of Fear, Magic and End of the Road, showcasing forty-nine stories by the most important and ground-breaking names in genre fiction, including AUDREY NIFFENEGGER ? CHRISTOPHER PRIEST ? CHRISTOPHER FOWLER ? SARAH PINBOROUGH ? ZEN CHO ? ADAM NEVILL ? LISA TUTTLE ? LAVIE TIDHAR ? ROCHITA LOENEN-RUIZ ? GAIL Z. MARTIN ? DAN ABNETT ? SARAH LOTZ ? STEVE RASNIC AND MELANIE TEM and many more! House of Fear The tread on the landing outside the door, when you know you are the only one in the house. The wind whistling through the eves, carrying the voices of the dead. The figure glimpsed briefly through the cracked window of a derelict house. Bring horror home with a collection of haunted house stories by some of the finest writers working in the horror genre. Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane They gather in darkness, sharing ancient and arcane knowledge as they manipulate the very matter of reality itself. Spells and conjuration; legerdemain and prestidigitation ? these are the mistresses and masters of the esoteric arts. From otherworldly visions to diabolical political machinations, here you will find a spell for every occasion. End of the Road Each step leads you closer to your destination, but who, or what, can you expect to meet along the way? Here are stories of misfits, spectral hitch-hikers, nightmare travel tales and the rogues, freaks and monsters to be found on the road. Strap on your seatbelt, or shoulder your backpack, and wait for that next ride... into darkness.

It all ends here! Legendary creators Christopher Priest (Black Panther) and MD Bright (Iron Man) deliver the final chapter for a comic book milestone more than a decade in the making! Quantum. Woody. The other Quantum has disappeared. The other Woody has been revealed. Heroes, enemies, frenemies, and armies of vicious mercenaries descend on one luxurious ballroom during a black-tie affair?they all want the secret young Woody guards, and nothing will stop them from taking it. As the bullets fly and the champagne flows, can Quantum save the life of his young ward? And just whose side is the slippery Woody finally on??

Back together! Back in the tights! Back in action! Christopher Priest & MD Bright?s long-awaited return to the world?s worst superhero team hits full swing! Quantum and Woody suit up and zero in on the mystery that may have caused the new Quantum to disappear?and the new Woody to exist in the first place! But Eric Henderson knows more than he?s letting on. Can Woody trust his one-time partner again?and together can they manage to stop the global intelligence networks and their worldwide conspiracy?

From legendary creators Christopher Priest and M.D. Bright?the ORIGINAL Quantum and Woody are back with an all-new adventure set 20 years after their landmark original series! The terrible mystery behind the existence of Quantum and Woody 2.0 has begun to unravel! What is Eric Henderson hiding? From his enemies, from the government, and worst of all?from Woody? Also sort of appearing in this issue?Vincent Van Goat! (Sort of.)

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 accounts the trials and tribulations of a group of people who have escaped into a utopian shared virtual reality known as Wessex. It is a world engineered to give them their every desire. But when one woman becomes subject to the violent attentions of a man who feels that she is everything he desires she must decide to fight back. Obsession and abuse of power can cross from the real world to the imagined all too easily. Thought by some to have been instrumental in the inspiration of the film INCEPTION, A DREAM OF WESSEX is a classic in the literature of virtual realities and remains one of Chris Priest''s most highly regarded novels. Christopher Priest is a genre-leading author of SFF fiction. His novel, THE PRESTIGE, won a number of awards and was adapted into a critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated film directed by Christopher Nolan (TENET, INCEPTION) starring Hugh Jackman (THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, X-MEN), Christian Bale (THE BIG SHORT, BATMAN BEGINS), Michael Caine (THE ITALIAN JOB) and Scarlett Johansson (MARRIAGE STORY, THE AVENGERS).

"Priest writes extraordinarily well . . . his best novel to date . . . an atmosphere of increasingly oppressive menace." - Francis King, "The Spectator" "An original and haunting novel." - "London Times" "A brilliant and sustained novel of imaginative power." - "Vector" Peter Sinclair, a 29-year-old Londoner, is reeling after losing his father, his girlfriend, his job and his flat. Taking refuge in a friend''s rural cottage, he tries to make sense of things and figure out where his life began to go wrong by writing an autobiography. "But it is possible that none of this is true ..." Peter Sinclair is a 31-year-old native of the city of Jethra in Faiandland who has just won the grand prize in a lottery: a trip to the Dream Archipelago, a neverending series of idyllic islands, where he will undergo a medical procedure that gives him immortality. Because the process also results in total amnesia, Peter must first set down all the details of his life in a manuscript in order to recover the memories afterwards. "But it is also possible that none of this is true ..." As the two narratives intersect and intertwine, the reader must decide what is real and what is not in this brilliant literary mindgame from Christopher Priest, the award-winning author of "The Prestige" and "The Separation."

The most demanded return in comics is finally here! The original Quantum and Woody are back! Legendary creators Christopher Priest and M.D. Bright return to one of the most acclaimed series of the modern era for an all-new mini-series event! Whatever happened to the world?s worst superhero team? Twenty years past their prime, the unlikely crime-fighting duo known as Quantum and Woody (not a couple) have long since parted ways?until a middle-aged Quantum suddenly reappears with a brand-new teenage partner. Now Woody is out to break up the all-new, all-different Quantum and Woody and put an end to Quantum?s recklessness?just as Quantum takes on a life-or-death personal mission for national security. Can these former friends set aside their differences?and their age?and their numerous health difficulties?to join forces one last time without driving each other crazy?

The seminal series by Christopher Priest and M.D. Bright collected in its entirety for the very first time ? with more than 50 pages of extras and bonus material! Sometimes the best friends make the worst partners. Once inseparable, childhood friends Eric Henderson and Woody Van Chelton haven?t seen each other in years. Reunited by the mysterious deaths of their research scientist fathers, the unlikely duo find themselves stuck together all over again when a catastrophic lab accident transforms their bodies into pure energy ? energy that will completely dissipate if they don?t ?klang!? their control bands together every 24 hours! Now, armed with an array of high tech gadgets?and two horribly mismatched personalities?and a goat for a sidekick?this pair of misfits has has decided to set the world straight as the world?s worst superhero team, Quantum and Woody?if they can manage to quit fighting each other first. Now, for the first time in one complete volume, discover the defining masterwork of legendary creators Christopher Priest (Black Panther, Deadpool) and M.D. Bright (Green Lantern, Iron Man) as the complete, classic Quantum and Woody gets the deluxe oversized omnibus treatment! Collecting QUANTUM AND WOODY (1997) #0, 1?21 and #32, THE GOAT: H.A.E.D.U.S. #1, and X-O MANOWAR (1996) #16 (guest-starring Quantum and Woody), as well as the original backup stories from the QUANTUM AND WOODY trade paperback collections, and the never-before-collected story ?Thunk,? along with rarely seen sketches, character designs and process art from inside the Valiant vaults!

Deep in the Advanced Technique Concentration, Wentik created a mind-altering drug. Suddenly he is transported to the jungles of Brazil in the 22nd century and a world devastated by nuclear war and poison gas. Only South America survived but even here ''The Disturbances'' create havoc. Can Wentik find a way back? For himself? And all of humanity?

Discover the islands of the Dream Archipelago—where reality is both illusory and magical—in this “masterful . . . endlessly compelling” literary sci-fi novel for fans of Haruki Murakami and David Mitchell (Locus). The Dream Archipelago is a vast network of islands. The names of the islands are different depending on who you talk to. Their very locations seem to twist and shift. Some islands have been sculpted into vast musical instruments, others are home to lethal creatures, others the playground for high society. Hot winds blow across the archipelago and a war fought between two distant continents is played out across its waters. Styled as an untrustworthy but enticing travel guide to the archipelago, The Islanders is a tale of murder, artistic rivalry, and literary trickery; a Chinese puzzle of a novel where nothing is quite what it seems; a narrative that pulls you in and plays an elegant game, just as its unreliable narrator does the same . . . “ . . . easily one of the richest and most rewarding novels that Priest has written to date.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

“One of the master illusionists of our time.” —Wired “A head-spinning blast of blurred reality . . . jaw-dropping.” —NPR “Completely fascinating.” —San Francisco Book Review Set against “a kaleidoscopic backdrop of Earth’s past, present, and future”, this time-hopping science fiction novel is a moving meditation on “the resonance of history, memory, and love” (AV Club) In the near future, Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled from Anatolia to Britain when his wife, an aid worker, is killed—annihilated by a terrifying weapon that reduces its target to a triangular patch of scorched earth. A century earlier, Tommy Trent, a stage magician, is sent to the Western Front on a secret mission to render British reconnaissance aircraft invisible to the enemy. Present day. A theoretical physicist develops a new method of diverting matter, a discovery with devastating consequences that will resonate through time.

** Winner of the 2008 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Anthology** In 1919 Sigmund Freud published an essay that delved deep into the tradition of horror writing and claimed to understand one of its darkest tricks. Like a mad scientist, he performed literary vivisection on a still-breathing body of work, exploring its inner anatomy, and pulling out mysterious organs for classification. His aim: to present to the world a complete theory of ‘das unheimliche’, the uncanny. In the spirit of this great experiment, 14 leading authors have here been challenged to write fresh fictional interpretations of what the uncanny might mean in the 21st century, to update Freud’s famous checklist of what gives us the creeps, and to give the hulking canon of uncanny fiction a shot in the arm, a shock to the neck-bolts... ''It’s not too great a stretch to see Comma as the literary equivalent of Factory Records.'' - The Herald, 2 Dec. ''Delightful and disturbing'' - The Independent on Sunday, 14 Dec. ''A masterclass in understated creepiness... a deliciously macabre collection that the old Austrian might well have enjoyed.'' - Book of the Week, Time Out, 12 Jan. ''If we need the uncanny – and I suspect we do – then we also need it updating... laudable.'' - Book of the Week, The Independent, 2 Jan. ''A bold idea.'' - The Guardian, 3 Jan.

This is the story of Sally Gunnell''s progress from modest origins in Essex to becoming 400-metre hurdles world-record holder, Olympic champion and world champion. It describes the combination of talent, commitment, hard work and desire to win that have enabled her to succeed.

After a narrow escape and the deactivation of their wristbands , Quantum and Woody dissolve their partnership and go their separate ways. Only they haven''t seen the last of Magnum and War Locke?

After an ally long thought dead rescues our heroes from prison, Quantum is introduced to the mysterious Toyo Harada and, meanwhile, Woody goes after what''s really on his mind ? pizza! And, elsewhere, Warrant continues to deal with the immortal known as Lysander?on the moon.

Powerless, and back from the brink of cancellation, Quantum and Woody are hauled in by the police to answer for their brand of vigilante justice. Their only defense? The man called Warrant. But, unfortuantely, he is stranded on the moon?

Part one of an action-packed, four-part story arc! Terrance Magnum has declared war on Quantum and Woody! After the death of their friend, our heroes head to Magnum''s Moroccan compound seeking revenge. But can they take down the enforcer known as War Locke?