Of the City of the Saved...

Of the City of the Saved...
Of the City of the Saved...  
Author(s) Philip Purser-Hallard
Cover artist Steve Johnson
Country US
Language English
Series Faction Paradox
Genre(s) Science Fiction
Publisher Mad Norwegian Press
Publication date 2004
Media type Print (Trade Paperback)
Pages 256 pp
ISBN 0-9725959-4-5
OCLC Number 56589181
Preceded by This Town Will Never Let Us Go
Followed by Warlords of Utopia

Of the City of the Saved... is an original novel by Philip Purser-Hallard set in the Faction Paradox universe.[1][2] Laura Tobin, who first appeared in the BBC Doctor Who books, is a major character in the novel.

The full title, as given on the title page, is Of the City of the Saved... of its diverse citizenry and of its sundry divinities, with a disquisition on the protocols of history. The novel won Best Book in the 2004 Jade Pagoda awards, voted on by members of a Doctor Who book mailing list.[3] It has been described as 'a stunning debut from Purser-Hallard and easily one of the best Doctor Who-related original novels published to date'.[4]

Contents

Plot introduction

Beyond the end of the universe exists a city the size of a galaxy. Within it every human being that ever lived, from the first australopithecine to the last posthuman, has been inexplicably resurrected. For three hundred years, the uncountable inhabitants have enjoyed their unaging and invulnerable second lives. But now, the unthinkable has happened. Someone has been murdered.

Continuity

The City of the Saved was introduced in The Book of the War, and is the setting of Purser-Hallard's forthcoming story in the Obverse Books anthology A Romance in Twelve Parts. In addition to multiple references in the later Faction Paradox volumes, the novel was referenced in the then current Doctor Who novel range, where The Gallifrey Chronicles by Lance Parkin suggests that the City is part of the same project of reconstruction as the restoration of the Doctor's home planet Gallifrey.[5]

Cultural references

Among others, the science fiction author Philip K. Dick and the Roman Emperor Claudius appear as characters in the novel. Various fictional characters appear as artificial constructs within the City, including Sherlock Holmes and Don Juan DeMarco.

References

  1. ^ ISFDB Entry for Of the City of the Saved...
  2. ^ Locus Entry for Of the City of the Saved...
  3. ^ The Annual Jade Pagoda Awards
  4. ^ Discontinuity Guide - Of the City of the Saved...
  5. ^ The Cloister Library - The Gallifrey Chronicles

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