{"product_id":"a-dream-of-wessex-valancourt-20th-century-classics","title":"A Dream of Wessex (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)","description":"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 . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Christopher Priest's fifth novel, \u003ci\u003eA Dream of Wessex\u003c\/i\u003e (1977), is a classic of science fiction that will keep readers guessing until the startling, mind-bending conclusion. Priest's novels \u003ci\u003eThe Space Machine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Affirmation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Separation\u003c\/i\u003e are also available from Valancourt. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e '[An] excellent and intriguing novel ... the characters and their emotions are real, the concepts fascinating, and the sense of foreboding almost unbearable.' - \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'This fine novel about time-unravellers has hallucinatory powers ... Priest is a novelist of real distinction.' - \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'Christopher Priest is one of our most gifted young writers of science fiction. I recommend \u003ci\u003eA Dream of Wessex\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Magus\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e '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.' - \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Valancourt Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51943456407783,"sku":"9781943910236","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_89cc98bd-47b5-44a2-a83f-759d844f4540.jpg?v=1775322957","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/a-dream-of-wessex-valancourt-20th-century-classics","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}