WWW.INFINITARIAN.COM
The website of Philip Purser-Hallard MA DPhil, author and scholar, divided for your convenience into the following sections:
LATEST UPDATE: 6 June 2013
More Tales of the City is available to pre-order from Obverse Books, or to buy now as an ebook.
PREVIOUS UPDATE: 11 April 2013
I’ve added pages (including a cover image and Background Notes) for my Señor 105 e-novella, Horizon, or Señor 105 contra las Momias Locas de Odinhotep, now out from Manleigh Books. I’ve also added full cover images for More Tales of the City
FICTION
The City of the Saved
- More Tales of the City, a forthcoming City of the Saved anthology.
- Tales of the City, the first City of the Saved anthology.
- 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.
- Horizon, or Señor 105 contra las Momias Locas de Odinhotep — my fourth novella, available as an ebook.
- My Faction Paradox short stories.
- 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Unpublished Short Fiction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 monthly columns on science fiction and faith, 2006-09.
- 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).
- Contributor biographies from Tales of the City (2012).
- Author biography from Burning with Optimism’s Flames (2012).
REVIEWS
- Reviews of The Book of the War (2002).
- Reviews of Of the City of the Saved... (2004).
- Reviews of A Life Worth Living (2004).
- Reviews of Wildthyme on Top (2005).
- Reviews of Peculiar Lives (2005).
- Reviews of Short Trips: The History of Christmas (2005).
- Reviews of Collected Works (2006).
- Reviews of Short Trips: Time Signature (2006).
- Reviews of Nobody’s Children (2007).
- Reviews of The Vampire Curse (2008).
- Reviews of Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus (2009).
- Reviews of A Romance in Twelve Parts (2011).
- Reviews of Tales of the City (2012).
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