The Islanders
Christopher Priest
Gollancz 2011, hb, 339pp, £12.99,ISBN 9780575070042
Bricks
Leon Jenner
Coronet 2011, hb, 136pp, £12.99,ISBN 9781444706284
Wither
Lauren DeStefano
HarperVoyager 2011, pb, 358pp, £9.99,ISBN 9780007425471
Manhattan in Reverse
Peter F Hamilton
Macmillan 2011, hb, 260pp, £17.99,ISBN 9780230750302
Blackout
Connie Willis
Gollancz 2011, pb, 610pp, £14.99,9780099272
The Islanders Christopher Priest is probablybest known as the author of The Prestige, on which the 2006 film was based. But for SF readers he hasbeen one of the most consistently reliable, thoughtful and thought-provokingBritish writers of the last 40 years, right from his earliest novels Indoctrinaire,Fugue for a Darkening Island, Inverted World and A Dream of Wessex (1970-77). He specialises in uncertainty, both in what actually happens (ornot) in his stories and in the unreliability of his narrators.

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