ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr Philip Alexander Purser-Hallard (né Hallard) works as a library assistant in a sixth form college, having been employed among other things as a secretary, tutor, church caretaker, software consultant and researcher for the Revised Oxford English Dictionary. (It’s not that impressive a list of jobs, no, but he’s working on it.) He studied English Literature at Oxford University, during which time he was a member of the Douglas Adams Society, the Student Christian Movement and a comedy troupe called Cruel and Unusual Punishment. He spent several years as a postgraduate studying literary science fiction, an endeavour which eventually enabled him to fulfil his long-cherished dream of putting the letters ‘MA DPhil’ after his name. His thesis, The Relationship between Creator and Creature in Science Fiction, might get published one of these days.
As a writer, Phil's major project to date has been his first novel, Of the City of the Saved.... Previously he contributed short fiction to anthologies including Emerge and The Book of the War. Since the publication of Of the City of the Saved... he has written another short story, ‘Sex Secrets of the Robot Replicants’, to be published in A Life Worth Living. He has contributed to magazines, fanzines and comedy shows in Oxford and on the Edinburgh Fringe, and has spoken at the Greenbelt Arts Festival on science fiction and the Bible. Phil has a number of other writing projects in development at present, including more short stories and a novella. If anyone else wants to pay him to write stuff, he’d love to hear from them.
He lives with his wife and cats in Bristol in South-West England, where he drives a girly moped and haunts a disused church.
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