Simon Guerrier

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Simon Guerrier is a British science fiction author and dramatist, closely associated with the fictional universe of Doctor Who and its spinoffs. Although he has written one Doctor Who novel, The Time Travellers, for the BBC Books Past Doctor Adventures range, his work has mostly been for Big Finish Productions' audio drama and book ranges.

Guerrier's earliest published fiction appeared in Zodiac, the first of Big Finish's Short Trips range of Doctor Who short story anthologies. To date, his work has appeared in the majority of the Short Trips collections. He has also edited two volumes in the series, The History of Christmas and Time Signature. The second of these takes as its starting-point Guerrier's short story An Overture Too Early in The Muses, and explains its background, with considerable elaboration and digression along the way.

After contributing two stories to the anthology Life During Wartime in Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield range of books and audio dramas, Guerrier was invited to edit the subsequent year's short story collection, A Life Worth Living, and the novella collection Parallel Lives. As of 2006, after also contributing two audio dramas to the series, Guerrier is the Range Editor for the various Bernice Summerfield lines.

His other Doctor Who work is an audio drama, The Settling, in Big Finish's Doctor Who audio range, and a contribution to the UNIT spinoff series. He has also written a play in Big Finish's Sapphire and Steel range.

Guerrier's work is characterised by character-driven humour and by an interest in unifying the continuity of the various Big Finish ranges through multiple references and reappearances of characters. As editor he has been a strong promoter of the work of various script writers from the Seventh Doctor era of the Doctor Who television series.

1 Bibliography
2 Discography
3 Notes
4 External Links

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Doctor Who novel

The Time Travellers (2005; featuring the First Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara)

[edit] Doctor Who short stories

Libra: The Switching in Short Trips: Zodiac, (2002; edited by Jacqueline Rayner)
Curriculum Vitae in Short Trips: Companions, (2003; edited by Rayner)
Euterpe: An Overture too Early^[1] in Short Trips: The Muses, (2003; edited by Rayner)
A Good Life in Short Trips: Steel Skies, (2003; edited by John Binns)
The Immortals in Short Trips: Past Tense, (2004; edited by Ian Farrington)
Categorical Imperative in Short Trips: Monsters, (2004; edited by Farrington)
Last Christmas in Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury, (2004; edited by Paul Cornell)
How You Get There in Short Trips: A Day in the Life, (2005; edited by Farrington)
Christmas on the Moon in Short Trips: The History of Christmas, (2005; edited by Simon Guerrier)
Incongruous Details in Short Trips: The Centenarian, (2006; edited by Farrington)
DS Al Fine in Short Trips: Time Signature, (2006; edited by Guerrier)
The Best Joke I ever told and The Eighth Wonder of the World in Short Trips: Dalek Empire, (2006; edited by Nicholas Briggs)
There's Something About Mary in Short Trips: Snapshots, (2007; edited by Joseph Lidster)

[edit] Bernice Summerfield short stories

The Birthday Party and Speaking Out in Life During Wartime (2003; edited by Cornell)
Inappropriate Laughter and After Life in Something Changed (2005; edited by Guerrier)