Robert Shearman is currently best-known as a writer for Doctor Who as well as BBC drama Born and Bred and seven plays for BBC Radio 4. As a theatrical playwright, Shearman has worked with Alan Ayckbourn, had a play produced by Francis Ford Coppola, and has received several international awards for his work in theatre. His Doctor Who episode ‘Dalek’ was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form in 2006. Robert's story 'Mortal Coil' appears in Phobic  (Comma Press, 2006).

His new single author short story collection Tiny Deaths is published by Comma Press in October 2007.

Titles by Robert Shearman

Tiny Deaths

Tiny Deaths is a genre-blurring, gravity-defying debut collection from the acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Rob Shearman. Using the full armoury of speculative and science fiction, not to mention the stranger constructions of psychology, to shine light on a raft of our most personal and metaphysical assumptions, to unwind the emotional complexes of seemingly ordinary relationships, and to portray characters discovering themselves all over again. Alien intelligence, universal foresight, imaginary children, and conversations with Hitler’s daschund all conspire to offer an hilarious and continually surprising journey through the most realistic of concerns.

Praise for Rob Shearman

Shearman offers us haunting, nightmare alternatives to our world, worlds that are utterly recognisable as ours, thanks to the way he always picks out the comically mundane among the impossible and the fantastical. The dream-like logic of them - the simple acceptance of this as the status quo, rather than some mood-sapping attempt at explanation - makes each story cling to you; forces you to make sense of it and somehow inhabit it.
– Steven Moffat

A brilliant collection of page-turning twists, an extraordinary comic understanding, even Jesus with jokes.
– Martin Jarvis

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Details

• ISBN 978 190558314
• Publisher Comma Press
• Genre Short Fiction
• Extent 224pp