Simon Bucher-Jones

Simon Bucher-Jones (born Simon Jones on 6 September 1964) in Liverpool; he is a British author, poet, artist, and amateur actor, best known for his Doctor Who novels for Virgin and the BBC and as a contributor to the Faction Paradox spin-off series.

He is known for a hard SF approach. He has also written Cthulhu Mythos short stories. He also reviewed books for the Fortean Times, and for small press papers. He maintains a blog at http://www.simonbjones.blogspot.com where he is, among other projects, gradually turning all the Star Wars films into Shakespearean plays. He also markets a range of Cthulhu Mythos artwork t-shirts and mugs. He is also a major contributor of 'hidden cities' to the 'blind atlas' meme.

Doctor Who and related novels for Virgin

• The Death of Art (1996) (Seventh Doctor, Roz, Chris Cwej)
• Ghost Devices (1997) (Bernice Summerfield)

Doctor Who novels and other material for BBC

• The Taking of Planet 5 (1999) (Eighth Doctor, Fitz, Compassion; written with Mark Clapham)
• Grimm Reality (2001) (Eighth Doctor, Fitz, Anji; written with Kelly Hale)
• also: short story War Crimes in BBC short story collection Short Trips (1998)

Doctor Who work for Big Finish

• Short story The Thousand Years Of Christmas in the collection The History of Christmas (2005)
• Short story The Painting On The Stair in the Bernice Summerfield collection Collected Works (2006)

Faction Paradox

• The Book of the War (2002) (contributor) While the entries in The Book of The War are anonymous, it is known that Simon Bucher-Jones wrote more words in it than any other single contributor after the editor. The other contributors in order of wordage were: Daniel O'Mahony, Ian McIntire, Mags L. Halliday, Helen Fayle, Phil Purser-Hallard, Kelly Hale, Jonathan Dennis, and Mark Clapham.

Obverse Books

• Riviera Showdown in Iris: Abroad (2011) (contributor)
• Her and Allan in Wildthyme in Purple (2011) (contributor)

Forthcoming

• The Brakespeare Voyage Faction Paradox (2012) (with Jonathan Dennis)

Cthulhu Mythos and other Horror work

• (with James Ambeuhl) The Case of the Curiously Competent Conjuror in the collection Lin Carter's Anton Zarnak, Supernatural Sleuth.
• Some Thoughts On The Problem Of Order in the collection Hardboiled Cthulhu.
• A 2007 Cthulhu Mythos Calendar containing Simon Bucher-Jones's art was at one point available online.
• Things To Do In Pornutopia When You're Dead a comic strip in Violent #13, now available [Simon Bucher-Jones writer].

Charity and/or fan publications

• In the "Days of the 'Days of the Days of Our Lives'"' in 'Missing Pieces
• Tempus Fugit written with James Ambeuhl in Missing Pieces
• The Big Cat in The Cat Who Walked Through Time
• At the Beach in Lifedeath
• The Pulp Of The Black Lotus in Walking In Eternity
• At the Academy in Drabble Who
• Dial M for Metaphysics in the Craig Hinton memorial Fanthology Shelf Life (2008)
• Two Poems in Shooty Dog Thing: 2th & Claw (2011)

Unpublished

• Mr Kitling's Cakes written in 2005 for the proposed charity fanthology The Cat Who Walked Through Time II It is a sequel to *The Big Cat*
• The Temple Of Dagon written in 2004 for the proposed Chaosium anthology The Dagon Cycle
• Passin' Through Judgement written in 2005 for the proposed anthology Tales Of The Outre West

The collections for which these stories were written now seem unlikely to see print. The stories are therefore available to read on Simon Bucher-Jones' blog, and he is open to re-print offers.

Self published: "Pantechnikon Press"

• Godzilla In East Anglia a collection of poetry available via Lulu and Kindle (2010)

Charity or amateur theatrical performances

• Jacob in Joseph (St Michael's Church 2007)
• The Slave Seller in Sinbad the Sailor (Pantoloons Pantomime 2008)
• The Stage Manager in Little Dead Riding Hood (Pantoloons Murder Mystery 2008)
• King Rattle in Dick Whittington Goes West (Pantoloons Pantomime Jan 2009)
• Mister Shock in Robinson Crusoe: A Space Oddity (Pantoloons Pantomime Jan 2010)
• Asbad: King of Thieves in Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves (Pantoloons Pantomime Jan 2011)
• Gary: the Nymph in Babez in the Wood (Forthcoming Pantoloons Pantomime Jan 2012)

External links

• Simon Bucher-Jones at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database