# Christopher Priest vents spleen

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-priest-vents-spleen/617288
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 30, 2012, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-priest-vents-spleen/617288 "2012-03-30T15:43:07Z")
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### Author: ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-priest-vents-spleen/617288/21 "2012-04-03T17:57:57Z")

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> [@Spies like us](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spies-like-us/75297/7):
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> Jim Owsley (who uses the Nom De Plume “Christopher Priest” (presumably) to try to confuse people.)…isn’t.

He [legally changed his name](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Priest_(comics)#Name_change) to Christopher Priest, and said he wasn’t aware of the existence of another writer by that name beforehand. The reference there claims he uses “Priest” or “Christopher J. Priest” as a way to distinguish the two. (I can vouch, from recollection of correspondence with him in the '90s, for the claim that he was unaware, but do not know if that’s why he tends/tended(?) heavily towards just going by “Priest.”)

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