WWW.INFINITARIAN.COM

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If you're looking for information about the Devices trilogy (The Pendragon Protocol, The Locksley Exploit and Trojans), follow the links.

If you're looking for information about The Black Archive series of critical monographs about individual Doctor Who stories, follow the link.

For more impartial information on Philip Purser-Hallard, see The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction or Wikipedia.

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The website of Philip Purser-Hallard MA DPhil, author and scholar, divided for your convenience into the following sections:

• BLOG

• LATEST UPDATE
• FICTION
• CRITICISM
• LIFE
• REVIEWS

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LATEST UPDATE: 20 December 2022

Merry Christmas! My 2021 Christmas short story, ‘The Adventure of the Christmas Spirit’, has been added to the Christmas stories index. I’ve also updated my Sherlock Holmes pages for The Monster of the Mere, Masters of Lies and A Detective’s Life.

PREVIOUS UPDATE: 15 December 2021

My 2020 Christmas short story, ‘Exmasdays in the Povertime’, was added to the Christmas stories index. I also added a page for my Sherlock Holmes novel from Titan Books, Masters of Lies.

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FICTION

Novels and Novellas

• Sherlock Holmes: The Spider’s Web, published by Titan Books in 2020.
• Sherlock Holmes: The Vanishing Man, published by Titan Books in 2019.
• Of the City of the Saved..., published by Mad Norwegian press in 2004.
• Horizon, or Señor 105 contra las Momias Locas de Odinhotep published by Manleigh Books in 2013.
• Nursery Politics, available in Nobody’s Children, published by Big Finish Productions in 2008.
• Predating the Predators, available in The Vampire Curse, published by Big Finish Productions in 2007.
• Peculiar Lives, published by Telos Publishing Ltd in 2005.

The Devices Trilogy

• The Pendragon Protocol, published by Snowbooks in 2014.
• The Locksley Exploit, published by Snowbooks in 2015.
• Trojans, due from Snowbooks in October 2016.

Anthologies

• Iris Wildthyme of Mars, published by Obverse Books in 2014.
• Tales of the Civil War, the fifth City of the Saved anthology, published by Obverse Books in 2016.
• Furthest Tales of the City, the fourth City of the Saved anthology, published by Obverse Books in 2015.
• Tales of the Great Detectives, the third City of the Saved anthology, published by Obverse Books in 2014.
• More Tales of the City, the second City of the Saved anthology, published by Obverse Books in 2013.
• Tales of the City, the first City of the Saved anthology, published by Obverse Books in 2012.

Short Stories

• My Sherlock Holmes short stories.
• My Faction Paradox short stories.
• My Doctor Who short stories.
• My Bernice Summerfield short stories.
• My Iris Wildthyme short stories.
• ‘Tithonus Unbound’, originally published in Unbound Freedom, published by Greenbelt in 2004.
• ‘Scapegoat’, available in Emerge, published by Subway in 2003.
• ‘Scribonia’ and ‘Neath’, originally published on 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.

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CRITICISM

• The Black Archive, a series of book-length looks at individual Doctor Who stories, including:
  • Black Archive #4: Dark Water / Death in Heaven (March 2016) by Philip Purser-Hallard.
  • Black Archive #13: Human Nature / The Family of Blood (September 2017) by Naomi Jacobs and Philip Purser-Hallard.
• My monthly columns on science fiction and religion, 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 doctoral thesis, The Relationship between Creator and Creature in Science Fiction.

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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).
• Contributor biography from More Tales of the City (2013).
• Contributor biography from Further Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (2014).
• Contributor biography from Tales of the Civil War (2016).
• Contributor biography from Further Associates of Sherlock Holmes (2017).
• Contributor biography from The Book of the Enemy (2018).
• Author biography from Sherlock Holmes: The Vanishing Man (2019).

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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).
• Reviews of Burning with Optimism’s Flames (2012).
• Reviews of Horizon, or Señor 105 contra las Momias Locas de Odinhotep (2013).
• Reviews of More Tales of the City (2013).
• Reviews of Further Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (2014).
• Reviews of The Pendragon Protocol (2014).

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