Cover artist Steve Johnson Language English Publication date 2004 Genre Science Fiction | Country United States Series Faction Paradox Originally published 2004 Followed by Warlords of Utopia Publisher Mad Norwegian Press | |
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Media type Print (Trade Paperback) Preceded by This Town Will Never Let Us Go Similar Philip Purser-Hallard books, Faction Paradox books | ||
Of the City of the Saved... is an original novel by Philip Purser-Hallard set in the Faction Paradox universe. Laura Tobin, who first appeared in the BBC Doctor Who books, is a major character in the novel.
Contents
The full title, as given on the title page, is Of the City of the Saved... of its diverse citizenry and of its sundry divinities, with a disquisition on the protocols of history. The novel won Best Book in the 2004 Jade Pagoda awards, voted on by members of a Doctor Who book mailing list. It has been described as 'a stunning debut from Purser-Hallard and easily one of the best Doctor Who-related original novels published to date'. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction calls it "ambitious".
Plot introduction
Beyond the end of the universe exists The City of the Saved, an urban sprawl the size of a galaxy. Within it every human being that ever lived, from the first australopithecine to the last posthuman, has been inexplicably resurrected. For three hundred years, the uncountable inhabitants have enjoyed their unaging and invulnerable second lives. But now, the unthinkable has happened. Someone has been murdered.
Continuity
The City of the Saved was introduced in The Book of the War, and is the setting of Purser-Hallard's story in the Obverse Books anthology A Romance in Twelve Parts. A series of anthologies set in the City and edited by Purser-Hallard has been published by Obverse Books since 2012.