Paul Farnsworth (writer)
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Paul Farnsworth is a British
author best known for his comedy writing, which began with contributions to Deadpan in 1994. Between 2000 and 2006, Farnsworth concentrated on producing comedy material for the website The University of the Bleeding Obvious. In its entry for 'Bleeding Obvious' The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang makes the claim that "in 2003 the British satirical website 'University of the Bleeding Obvious' was one of the most popular comedy sites on the Internet." The final regular update was in February 2006.
Farnsworth is also known as the author of the Doctor Who
Short Story uPVC, published in the BBC anthology More Short Trips. His involvement with Doctor Who fiction resulted from a period in which he was a regular contributor to fanzines, including the Doctor Who Appreciation Society
's Cosmic Masque.
More recently he has contributed the story Cooker Island to the Bernice Summerfield
Anthology Secret Histories, published by Big Finish
.
United Kingdom
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author best known for his comedy writing, which began with contributions to Deadpan in 1994. Between 2000 and 2006, Farnsworth concentrated on producing comedy material for the website The University of the Bleeding Obvious. In its entry for 'Bleeding Obvious' The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang makes the claim that "in 2003 the British satirical website 'University of the Bleeding Obvious' was one of the most popular comedy sites on the Internet." The final regular update was in February 2006.
Farnsworth is also known as the author of the Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
Short Story uPVC, published in the BBC anthology More Short Trips. His involvement with Doctor Who fiction resulted from a period in which he was a regular contributor to fanzines, including the Doctor Who Appreciation Society
Doctor Who Appreciation Society
The Doctor Who Appreciation Society is a society for fans of the television series Doctor Who. It was founded in May 1976, emerging from the Westfield College Doctor Who Appreciation Society and the editors and readers of the fanzine Tardis...
's Cosmic Masque.
More recently he has contributed the story Cooker Island to the Bernice Summerfield
Bernice Summerfield
Bernice Surprise Summerfield is a fictional character created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishing's range of original full-length Doctor Who novels, the New Adventures...
Anthology Secret Histories, published by Big Finish
Big Finish
Big Finish may refer to:* Big Finish Productions, a British company that produces books and audio plays based on science fiction properties* Big Finish Games, the production company behind the Three Cards to Midnight adventure game...
.