There is ChristopherPriest, and then there is also another ChristopherPriest, who writes American comics. Strange coincidence you may think, but no, said comic author changed his name to 'ChristopherPriest' about five years ago, and at one stage was advertising his works as being penned by 'renowned SF author ChristopherPriest'. Cheeky bastard. I don't know which of the two is responsible for the novelisation of EXistenZ, but considering the theme of the movie I wouldn't put it past being a piece of spinnoffery that ChristopherPriest Mark One doesn't commonly own up to having penned. On the other hand, I wouldn't rule out the fact that ChristopherPriest Marks One and Two are some form of fragmented single identity, living in strangely interweaved alternate dimensions. _Well, that would explain where he gets his ideas from._