Dolley, Chris
Entry updated 23 June 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1954- ) UK author who began publishing work of genre interest with "The Sleeper and the Flame" in the magazine NFG for January 2003 (copyright date given as 2002), and whose promising first novel, Resonance (2005), features an Obsessive-Compulsive protagonist whose Paranoia about the reality of the world – as with several Philip K Dick protagonists – proves justified; his obsessive refusal to step on cracks in the pavement works, for instance, as a kind of glue to maintain the structure of what may be a real London, or a Virtual Reality simulacrum, or something else. All ends complexly. [JC]
Chris Dolley
born Bournemouth, Dorset: 30 September 1954
works
series
Reeves & Worcester
- What Ho Automata (Cedar Crest, New Mexico: Book View Café, 2014) [coll: pb/]
- The Unpleasantness at Baskerville Hall (Cedar Crest, New Mexico: Book View Café, 2016) [pb/Mark Hammermeister]
individual titles
- Resonance (New York: Baen Books, 2005) [hb/Alan Pollack]
- Shift (New York: Baen Books, 2007) [hb/Kurt Miller]
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