The year is 1893, and the workaday life of a young commercial traveller is enlivened by his ladyfriend, and she takes him to the laboratory of Sir William Reynolds building a Time Machine. It is but a small step into futurity, the beginning of a...
The character of the stage magician is clearly one that holds much fascination for Christopher Priest; witness the success of his brilliant novel, The Prestige, and the later critically acclaimed film adaptation for example. And just as the magician...