Philip Purser-Hallard
[1][2] His Devices Trilogy, beginning with The Pendragon Protocol, is an urban fantasy thriller series which combines Arthurian myth with issues of modern British politics and identity.From 2015 he is the editor of The Black Archive, a series of book-length critical studies of individual Doctor Who episodes and stories.His DPhil thesis, entitled 'The Relationship Between Creator and Creature in Science Fiction', examined how British and American science fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries explored the relationship between humanity and a putative creating deity through stories about the creation of sentient individuals by scientists, working from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein through to recent authors like Bruce Sterling, William Gibson and Dan Simmons.Purser-Hallard has given three talks at the liberal Christian Greenbelt festival, all on the intersections of science fiction and religious themes.[4] Between 2006 and 2009 he wrote a regular column on science fiction and faith for Surefish, the ISP and webzine arm of Christian Aid.