Philip Purser-Hallard
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Dr Philip Purser-Hallard (born Hallard in 1971) is an author and scholar. He gained a doctorate in English literature at Oxford University, during which time he was a prominent member of the Douglas Adams Society and a student comedy troupe called Cruel and Unusual Punishment. His thesis, entitled 'The Relationship Between Creator and Creature in Science Fiction', examines how British and American science fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries examine the relationship between humanity and a putative creating deity through stories about the creation of sentient individuals by scientists, working from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein through to recent authors like Bruce Sterling, William Gibson and Dan Simmons. He also has interests in eschatological science fiction, as seen in his first novel, Of the City of the Saved....
His published works include:
- Peculiar Lives (due July 2005), a novella in Telos Publishing's Time Hunter series.
- ‘Minions of the Moon’, a short story in the anthology Wildthyme on Top (due May 2005), edited by Paul Magrs.
- Of the City of the Saved... (2004), a science fiction novel.
- ‘Sex Secrets of the Robot Replicants’, a short story in the science fiction anthology A Life Worth Living (2004).
- ‘Scapegoat’, a fantasy short story in Emerge (2003), an anthology of poetry, prose and drama.
- Various entries in The Book of the War (2002), a science fiction anthology in encyclopedia form edited by Lawrence Miles.
- ‘"Cybernetic godhead": the relationship between creator and creative in the science fiction of William Gibson’, an academic paper in the journal ManuScript.
External links
- Homepage (http://www.infinitarian.com/index.html)
- Mad Norwegian Press (http://www.madnorwegian.com/)
- Telos Publishing (http://www.telos.co.uk/)
- Big Finish Productions (http://www.bigfinish.com/)
- Cruel and Unusual Punishment (http://www.infinitarian.com/comedy.html)
- ManuScript (http://www.art.man.ac.uk/english/manuscript/home.html)