Additional New Series Books

Amazon.co.uk has details of the second set of three Doctor Who new series novels being released by BBC Books, mentioned in the last issue of DWM. The novels include The Deviant Strain by Justin Richards, Only Human by Gareth Roberts and Rain of Terror by Mike Tucker. All three books will be released in hardcover and are due out simultaneously on September 5. Amazon has a quick summary of one of the novels, Richards' "The Deviant Strain," as follows: "The Novrosk Peninsula: the Soviet naval base has been abandoned, the nuclear submarines are rusting and rotting. Cold, isolated, forgotten. Until the Russian Special Forces arrive and discover that the Doctor and his companions are here too. But there is something else in Novrosk. Something that predates everything else, even the stone circle on the cliff top. Something that is at last waking, hunting, killing. Can the Doctor and his friends stay alive long enough to learn the truth? With time running out, they must discover who is really responsible for the Deviant Strain Featuring the Doctor as played by Christopher Eccleston, together with Rose and Captain Jack as played by Billie Piper and John Barrowman in the hit series from BBC Television."

Additionally, BBC Books will release Doctor Who: The Shooting Scripts on October 31. Listed as being written by Russell T Davies, it's unclear whether this will include all thirteen episodes of the first season, or merely the episodes Davies wrote himself (eight out of the thirteen.)

A further book, Doctor Who Through Time by Andrew Cartmel (former series script editor during the Sylvester McCoy years) is listed as being published in December 2005 by Continuum Publishing, said to be "an accessible history of the show for casual and hardcore fans."

(Thanks to Fred Harrison, Allan Alexander, Steve Tribe, Paul Engelberg)