Simon Bucher-Jones (1964-) is an author. Bucher-Jones is best known for his Doctor Who and Faction Paradox novels.
Life[]
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Writing style[]
Bucher-Jones' writing style (at least within Ghost Devices) is similar to that of Douglas Adams (with screwball, stream-of-consciousness comedy) but with more of a hard science fiction approach than Adams' works featured within them.
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Written works[]
- Ghost Devices - Simon's only Bernice Summerfield novel. Tells of an expedition to Canopus IV going to hell in a hand basket.
- The Immortal Seaton Begg
- The Weasels and the Warpfield (in Down the Middle)
- When I Remember __________ (in Down the Middle)
The Black Archive[]
- Image of the Fendahl
- The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit
- The Hand of Fear
Doctor Who[]
- At the Academy (in Drabble Who)
- The Death of Art - Simon's debut Doctor Who novel. Tells of psychics in Paris.
- War Crimes (in Short Trips) - Tells of the ramifications of the War Lords' experiments in The War Games.
- The Taking of Planet 5 (with Mark Clapham) - tells of the Eighth Doctor's battle against the Celestis.
- Grimm Reality (with Kelly Hale) - tells of the Eighth Doctor discovering a world based around fairy tales.
- The Thousand Years of Christmas (in The Ghosts of Christmas) - tells of the Doctor helping a robot decorate a Christmas tree.
Faction Paradox[]
- The Book of the War (with multiple other authors) - an encyclopediacal novel that serves as an introduction to the Faction Paradox range.
- The Brakespeare Voyage (with Jonathan Dennis) - tells of the trial of Robert Scarratt.
- After the Velvet Eon (in Burning with Optimism's Flames) - a "timey-wimey" short story.
- The Book of the Enemy (editor)
- Subjective Interlock
- The Annotated Autopsy of Agent A
- The Short Briefing Sergeant's Tale
- A Choice of Houses
- The Enemy - The Hole in Everything
- No Enemy But Despair
Iris Wildthyme[]
- Riviera Shakedown (in Iris: Abroad)
- Her and Allan (in Wildthyme in Purple)
- Iris: Chess-Mistress of Mars (in Iris Wildthyme of Mars)
- Whatever Happened to Maybe Jane? (in Locked in Space)
See also[]
Sources[]
- TARDIS Wiki page for Simon Bucher-Jones