Simon Guerrier


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 three Doctor Who novels, for the BBC Books range, his work has mostly been for Big Finish Productions' audio drama and book ranges. Guerrier has also written tie-in books for the Being Human and Primeval television series and co-authored a reference book for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series.

Work

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 three volumes in the series, The History of Christmas, Time Signature and How the Doctor Changed My Life. The second of these takes as its starting-point Guerrier's short story An Overture Too Early in The Muses. The third anthology featured stories entirely by previously unpublished writers.
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. After contributing two audio dramas to the series, Guerrier became the producer of the Bernice Summerfield range of plays and books, a post he held between January 2006 and June 2007.
His other Doctor Who work includes the audio dramas, The Settling and The Judgement of Isskar, in Big Finish's Doctor Who audio range, three Companion Chronicles and a contribution to the UNIT spinoff series. He created the spin-off Graceless, which aired on BBC Radio 4 Extra. He has also written a play in Big Finish's Sapphire and Steel range.

Style

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.

''Doctor Who'' novels

  • The Time Travellers,.
  • The Pirate Loop,.
  • The Slitheen Excursion,.

    ''Primeval'' novels

  • Fire and Water

    ''Being Human'' novels

  • The Road,.

    ''Sherlock Holmes'' novels

  • The Great War .

    ''Doctor Who'' short stories

  • "Libra: The Switching: in Short Trips: Zodiac,.
  • 'Curriculum Vitae" in Short Trips: Companions,,.
  • "Euterpe: An Overture Too Early" in Short Trips: The Muses,,

    Doctor Who comic strips

  • The Secret Army
  • ''The Good Old Days''

    Bernice Summerfield short stories

  • The Birthday Party and Speaking Out in Life During Wartime,.
  • Inappropriate Laughter and After Life in Something Changed,.
  • Six Impossible Things in Present Danger,.
  • Benny and the Grieving Man in In Time,.
  • Santa Benny at the Bottom of the Sea in The Christmas Collection,.

    As editor

  • A Life Worth Living,.
  • Short Trips: The History of Christmas,.
  • Parallel Lives,.
  • Something Changed,.
  • Short Trips: Time Signature,.
  • Old Friends,.
  • Short Trips: Dalek Empire,.
  • Short Trips: How the Doctor Changed My Life,.

    Audio Productions

Doctor Who audio drama

  • The Settling
  • The Judgement of Isskar
  • The Mega
  • The Yes Men (2015; featuring the Second Doctor

    Doctor Who audio novels

  • ''Scourge of the Cybermen''

    Doctor Who Companion Chronicles

  • Home Truths
  • The Prisoner's Dilemma
  • The Drowned World
  • Shadow of the Past
  • The Guardian of the Solar System
  • The Perpetual Bond
  • The Cold Equations
  • The Memory Cheats
  • The First Wave
  • The Anachronauts
  • The Uncertainty Principle
  • The Library of Alexandria
  • The War to End All Wars
  • The Founding Fathers and ''The Locked Room''

    Doctor Who Short Trips

  • Letting Go
  • ''The Switching''

    Bernice Summerfield audio dramas

  • The Lost Museum
  • Summer of Love
  • The Wake
  • ''Braxiatel in Love''

    Blake's 7 audio drama

  • The Dust Run and The Trial
  • The Turing Test
  • The Magnificent Four
  • Logic
  • Spy
  • President
  • Remnants
  • ''No Name''

    Other Big Finish audio dramas

  • UNIT: The Coup
  • Sapphire and Steel: The School
  • Iris Wildthyme: The Two Irises
  • Robin Hood: The Siege
  • Graceless
  • Dark Shadows: The Creeping Fog
  • Dan Dare: Reign of the Robots
  • ''Susan's War: The Uncertain Shore''