WWW.INFINITARIAN.COM
The website of Philip Purser-Hallard MA DPhil, author and scholar, divided for your convenience into the following sections:
LATEST UPDATE: 18 January 2012
I’ve added new pages for my forthcoming anthology, Tales of the City, and for the City of the Saved material generally.
PREVIOUS UPDATE: 16 December 2011
I’ve added a new (well, year-old) Christmas story, ‘Dyschronismus Carol’, to the Christmas short stories page.
FICTION
The City of the Saved
- Tales of the City, the forthcoming City of the Saved anthology from Obverse Books.
- A Romance in Twelve Parts, containing the City story ‘A Hundred Words from a Civil War’.
- Of the City of the Saved... — my first (and to date only) novel.
- The Book of the War, which introduced the City of the Saved as a setting.
Other Published Fiction
- Peculiar Lives — my second book and first novella.
- Nursery Politics — my second novella, available in the collection Nobody’s Children.
- Predating the Predators — my third novella, available in the collection The Vampire Curse.
- My Iris Wildthyme short stories.
- My Bernice Summerfield short stories.
- My Doctor Who short stories.
Republished Short Fiction
- ‘Scapegoat’, from Emerge.
- ‘Tithonus Unbound’, from Unbound Freedom.
- ‘Scribonia’ and ‘Neath’, from the Blind Atlas collaborative blog.
Unpublished Short Fiction
- Microfiction – very short stories originally posted on Twitter.
- Bonus short stories using elements from my published fiction.
- Christmas-themed short stories sent out with my Christmas cards.
- Fiction originally posted to my blog, Peculiar Times.
- Miscellaneous non-prose.
- Some early work, including two fan-published Doctor Who short stories.
CRITICISM
- My columns on science fiction and faith, now discontinued.
- My article for The Guardian on Philip K Dick and A Scanner Darkly.
- Transcripts of my talks from the Greenbelt festival on ‘The Spirituality of Doctor Who’, ‘Science Fiction as the Bible’ and ‘The Bible as Science Fiction’.
- ‘A Momentary Stay Against Confusion’: An Interview With Dan Simmons.
- About my thesis, The Relationship between Creator and Creature in Science Fiction.
LIFE
- About the Author.
- My blog, Peculiar Times.
- An Interview originally published in a Doctor Who fanzine.
- Author biography from Of the City of the Saved... (2004).
- Author biography from Wildthyme on Top (2005).
- Author biography from Peculiar Lives (2005).
- Author biography from Short Trips: Time Signature (2006).
- Author biography from The Vampire Curse (2008).
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