num_pages: 256
description: Probably the best received of Priest's pure SF work was Inverted World, a novel set on a bizarre planet that can be best described as an inside-out sphere, its equator &amp; poles stretching out to infinity. The protagonist Helward Mann literally sees this for himself in a narrative spike in the middle of the book, after which the plot tails-off to a typically inconclusive conclusion. The novel's structure thereby mirrors the shape of the planet. This fine attention to structure is one of his hallmarks &amp; can be seen in all his later novels.
language: English
title: Inverted World
titlecomplete: Inverted World
characters: Helward Mann
genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, British Literature, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic, Fantasy, Novels
ratings_count: 8692
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 126259200000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award
category: Best SF Novel
publisher: Faber & Faber