John Whitbourn
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John Whitbourn (born 1958) is an author and tenth-generation inhabitant of southern England's Downs Country.
Whitbourn is an archaeology graduate and published author since 1987. His first book, A Dangerous Energy, won the BBC/Victor Gollancz Fantasy Novel Prize (judged by, amongst others, Terry Pratchett) in 1991. Popes and Phantoms and To Build Jerusalem, novels located in his own preferred - and wildly skewed - version of history, followed that success. A Dangerous Energy was deservedly described as "the first Counter-Reformation science fiction novel" and To Build Jerusalem furthers the story of that alternative history. A third volume in this trilogy, The Two Confessions is now complete. Popes and Phantoms was published in Russia by Mir Fantastiki.
At the same time Whitbourn has published a steady stream of short stories, including the extensive Binscombe Tales series of supernatural stories set in his ancestral homeland. They were published in collected form as Binscombe Tales - Sinister Saxon Stories and More Binscombe Tales - Sinister Sutangli Stories by the Ash Tree Press in 1998 and 1999.
His fifth book, The Royal Changeling, (described as the first work of Jacobite propaganda for several centuries) was published in 1998 by Simon & Schuster's Earthlight imprint, and subsequent years have seen the release of his Downs-Lord triptych, namely Downs-Lord Dawn ( 1999 ), Downs-Lord Day ( 2000 ) and Downs-Lord Doomsday ( 2002 ) by the same company.
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[edit] Complete Works
[edit] Novels
| Title | Publisher | Year |
|---|---|---|
| A Dangerous Energy | Victor Gollancz | 1992 |
| Popes & Phantoms | Victor Gollancz | 1993 |
| To Build Jerusalem | Victor Gollancz | 1995 |
| The Royal Changeling | Earthlight - Simon & Schuster | 1998 |
| Downs-Lord Dawn - Vol. 1 The Downs-Lord Triptych | Earthlight -Simon & Schuster | August 1999 |
| Downs-Lord Day - Vol. 2 The Downs-Lord Triptych | Earthlight - Simon & Schuster | December 2000 |
| Downs-Lord Doomsday - Vol. 3 The Downs-Lord Triptych | Earthlight - Simon & Schuster | February 2002 |
[edit] Short stories
"Peace On Earth, Goodwill To Most Men" || Mystery for Xmas|| Michael O'Mara || 1991
| Title | Published in | Publisher | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Waiting For A Bus" | Third Book of After Midnight Stories | William Kimber | 1987 |
| "Roots" | Fourth Book of After Midnight Stories | William Kimber | 1988 |
| "Waiting For A Bus" | The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 14 | DAW (USA) | 1988 |
| "His Holiness Commands" "It Has Been Said" "No Truce With Kings" "Let The Train Take The Strain" |
Binscombe Tales | Haunted Library | 1989 |
| "Rollover Night" "I Could A Tale Unfold" "The More It Changes" "Appendix: A Complete List of Binscombe Tales" |
Rollover Night | Haunted Library | 1990 |
| "Every Little Breeze" | All Hallows: Journal of the Ghost Story Society. No 2. | -- | 1990 |
| "Peace On Earth, Goodwill To Most Men" | Mystery for Xmas | Michael O'Mara | 1990 |
| "A Partial Cure" | Transactions of the Doppelganger Society | -- | 1990 |
| "Hello Dolly" | Fifth Book of After Midnight Stories | Robert Hale | 1991 |
| "Be Assured, He Is Not There" "The Flowering Of The Reformation" |
Popes & Phantoms | Haunted Library | 1992 |
| "The Fall Of A Dictator" | All Hallows: Journal of the Ghost Story Society. No 4 | -- | 1993 |
| "Justice Without Respite" | Ghosts & Scholars. No 15 | Haunted Library | 1993 |
| "Walk This Way" | All Hallows: Journal of the Ghost Story Society. No. 7 | -- | 1994 |
| "Only One Careful Owner" | A Binscombe Tale For Xmas | Haunted Library | 1994 |
| "Here Is My Resignation" | -- | Lychgate | 1995 |
| "Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside ( Within Reason )" | A Binscombe Tale For Summer | The Haunted Library | 1996 |
| "Ingratitude" | All Hallows: Journal of the Ghost Story Society. No. 15 | -- | 1997 |
| "Bury My Heart At Southerham (East Sussex)" | Midnight Never Comes | The Ash Tree Press | 1997 |
| "BINSCOMBE TALES" | Sinister Saxon Stories. Vol. 1 | The Ash Tree Press | 1998 |
| "Why I Like It Here" | Downs Country Magazine no. 22 | -- | May 1998 |
| "In the Name of Allah, the Omnipotent?" | Interzone no 135 | -- | September 1998 |
| "Introduction to Litany of Strange Sorrow by John Gale" | -- | Doppelganger Press | 1999 |
| "More Binscombe Tales" | Sinister Sutangli Stories. Vol. 2 | Ash Tree Press | 23 April 1999 |
| "In the Name of Allah, the Omnipotent?" | -- | Nowa Fantastyka (Poland) | September 1999 |
| "The 'Prehistory' of St. Edmund's - 1534 - 1899" Essay in The Catholic Parish of St. Edmund |
A Centenary Commemorative History | King & Martyr, Godalming, 1899 - 1999 | November 1999. |
| "The Way, the Truth..." | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | -- | January 2000 |
| "Culloden II" | All Hallows: Journal of the Ghost Story Society. No. 23 | -- | 2000 |
| "Democracy - part one of the 'Stalinspace' series" | -- | Nowa Fantastyka (Poland) | March 2000 |
| "Monmouth's Stalin Organs - or Ingenious Inventions and Annoying Authors" | The So-ho Gazette | Newsletter of the 1685 Society | July 2000 |
| "The Hills Are Alive" | Interzone no 165 | -- | March 2001 |
| "Excuse Me" | Shadows & Silence | Ash Tree Press | December 2000 |
[edit] Articles
| Title | Published in | Year |
|---|---|---|
| "The Day The Cornish Invaded Guildford" | The Surrey Advertiser | June 2, 1989. |
| "The Bones of a Revolutionary" | The Surrey Advertiser. September 22, 1989 | |
| "A Gift To Woden From Pevensey?" | Wiðowinde: Journal of Ða Engliscan Geðisdas No. 88 | August 1990. |
| "What Would Have Happened If..." | The Catholic Times | November 6, 1994 |
| "Sticks & Stones" | Wiðowinde: Journal of Ða Engliscan Geðisdas No. 113 | Spring 1998 |
| "'Orrible Massacre in Sussex" | Downs Country Magazine no. 26 | January 1999 |
| "A Hymn To Merrily" | All Hallows: Journal Of The Ghost Story Society No 32 | Feb 2003 |
| "Looking For New England" | 3SF Magazine No 1 | October 2002 |
| "Angles, Saxons Normans - & Vandals (& Scots)" | Wiðowinde: Journal Of Ða Engliscan Geðisdas No 128 | Summer 2002 |
| "Confessions of a Counter-Reformation Green Anarcho-Jacobite" (Interview) | Starburst Magazine No. 266 | October 2000 |
| "Just Hanging Around" | Ghosts & Scholars. No. 31 | 2000 |
[edit] Other
- Publish & Be Damned! The Suppressed/Depressed Edition The Ash Tree Press. Web publication. 2003.
