To my mother and father
Wheresoe’er I turn my view,
All is strange, yet nothing new;
Endless labour all along,
Endless labour to be wrong.
Some of the situations described in this novel were incorporated into a short story entitled “The Inverted World,” which was first published in England in New Writings in SF — 22 by Sidgwick Jackson Ltd.
Beyond a slight duplication of background and the inclusion of a few similarly named characters, there is not much between the two that is common.
Christopher Priest