Charles E.P. Murphy

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Charles E.P. Murphy is from the UK; he started writing one day and nobody's got him to stop. He has currently written and co-written five self-published books and various novellas, short stories, and comic strips for Sea Lion Press, FutureQuake Press, Malefaction, and Sergeant Frosty Press. Find him at https://twitter.com/cepmurphy ...more

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Charles E.P. Murphy "Events" spins out of being a longtime Doctor Who fan and being a political junkie. After a while, any genre show (Who, Buffy, Stargate etc) set in a …more"Events" spins out of being a longtime Doctor Who fan and being a political junkie. After a while, any genre show (Who, Buffy, Stargate etc) set in a 'real world' setting where the genre is all meant to be secret stops working - too much has happened or revealed in the past to make any sense that the world doesn't know alien vampires exist. (One Who book, Who Killed Kennedy - which gets a shoutout - wove real politics with Pertwee and cheekily said Wilson lost the election due to the events of those stories)

So I started to think: okay, what if aliens did keep trying to attack Earth and it gets public and is now a political issue like any other? How does it alter how we see people? What real-world events get altered? Do parties campaign on this? If we made spaceships for combat purposes, what would call the damn things?

And then you're right down the rabbit hole of figuring out how Section 28 fits into a world where aliens bombarded Honduras.........(less)
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Faction Paradox presents...The Boulevard!

I'm in Obverse Books' latest Faction Paradox anthology!

Faction Paradox: The Boulevard has twelve tales of the Faction's secret prison dimension - but what the hell did you do that was so bad the skull-wearing occult time warriors of Faction Paradox wanted you locked up?!

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That is a very, very accurate title! Barrington starts with a dystopian apocalypse and escalates, and then escalates more, and somehow finds another way to escalate - multiple vignettes jumping from character and timeline as the human rac
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Sam Everett moved town to deal with bereavement, and unfortunately ended up in a town where the dead don't die - for generations, the recently deceased have been left in the woods to get up and start walking around, where their surviving r
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Five years ago, a horrific massacre took place at an enclosed 'traditional marriage' community - how? Why? And how and why did the community happen? And has the author working on a true crime book stepped into something darker and stranger than she e ...more
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