BBC Books 2005 Info
Tuesday, 15 March 2005 - Reported by Shaun Lyon
The following information was part of the BBC Books "New Books and Backlist" catalogue available at the London Book Fair this week, and discusses the BBC "classic" Doctor Who novels due for the second half of the year. Note that this is just preliminary information and obviously may be subject to change. (Thanks to Steve Tribe)
Island of Death - Barry Letts
Sarah Jane Smith and her friend Jamie [sic] Fitzoliver investigate a strange New Age cult; business as usual for investigative journalists. But what is less usual is the demon-like creature the cultists worship. When the Doctor and UNIT arrive to investigate they discover a plot involving government ministers, alien narcotics, and an official cover-up. As an evil scheme develops on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, the Doctor enlists the help of the Royal Navy to investigate. But can they uncover the truth in time to avert disaster?
Spiral Scratch - Gary Russell
(previously announced as "Future Nostalgia")
When the Doctor and Mel receive a message about the Lamprey, the Doctor is confused. He's never heard of such a thing. But Mel has, which is odd as the Lamprey is a demon from a distant planet, far, far in the future - somewhere she's never heard of, let alone visited. Meanwhile two strangers watch every move the Doctor makes, one minute stopping calamity, the next causing it. Are they the force for good that they claim? And just as Mel thinks she's got this time-travelling business sorted out once and for all, along comes the peculiar Pierrot family...
Fear Itself - Nick Wallace
The 22nd Century: a few short years of interstellar contact have taught humankind a hard lesson: there are forces abroad that are nightmare manifest. Powerful, unstoppable, alien forces. It's a body blow to man's belief in his own superiority, and leaves him with the only option he has ever had: to fight. When the Doctor and his friends are caught in the crossfire, they find suspicion and paranoia running rampant, with enemies to be seen in every shadow. For the Eighth Doctor, only just finding his way in the universe again, one misstep could be fatal.
World Game - Terrance Dicks
The Doctor has been captured and put on trial by his own people - accused of their greatest crime: interfering with the affairs of other peoples and planets. He is sentenced to exile on Earth. That much is history. But now the truth can be told - the Doctor did not go straight into exile. First the Time Lords have a task for him. From the trenches of the Great War to the terrors of the French Revolution, the Second Doctor finds himself on a mission he does not want with a companion he does not like, his life threatened at every turn.
The Time Travellers - Simon Guerrier
The TARDIS touches down in London, 2006, in the middle of a war that has left the city a ruin. Mistaken for vagrants, the First Doctor's granddaughter and compaions find themselves in the execution blocks. The Doctor must help the military refine its ultimate weapon. The British Army has discovered time travel. And the consequences are already terrible.
Atom Bomb Blues - Andrew Cartmel
Los Alamos, 1944. In the American desert the race is on to build an atomic bomb. The Seventh Doctor arrives, posing as a nuclear scientist. Someone, or something, is trying to alter the course of history. As the minutes tick away to the world's first atom bomb test, the Doctor and Ace find themselves up to their necks in spies, aliens (the flying saucer variety) and some very nasty saboteurs from another dimension.
Sarah Jane Smith and her friend Jamie [sic] Fitzoliver investigate a strange New Age cult; business as usual for investigative journalists. But what is less usual is the demon-like creature the cultists worship. When the Doctor and UNIT arrive to investigate they discover a plot involving government ministers, alien narcotics, and an official cover-up. As an evil scheme develops on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, the Doctor enlists the help of the Royal Navy to investigate. But can they uncover the truth in time to avert disaster?
Spiral Scratch - Gary Russell
(previously announced as "Future Nostalgia")
When the Doctor and Mel receive a message about the Lamprey, the Doctor is confused. He's never heard of such a thing. But Mel has, which is odd as the Lamprey is a demon from a distant planet, far, far in the future - somewhere she's never heard of, let alone visited. Meanwhile two strangers watch every move the Doctor makes, one minute stopping calamity, the next causing it. Are they the force for good that they claim? And just as Mel thinks she's got this time-travelling business sorted out once and for all, along comes the peculiar Pierrot family...
Fear Itself - Nick Wallace
The 22nd Century: a few short years of interstellar contact have taught humankind a hard lesson: there are forces abroad that are nightmare manifest. Powerful, unstoppable, alien forces. It's a body blow to man's belief in his own superiority, and leaves him with the only option he has ever had: to fight. When the Doctor and his friends are caught in the crossfire, they find suspicion and paranoia running rampant, with enemies to be seen in every shadow. For the Eighth Doctor, only just finding his way in the universe again, one misstep could be fatal.
World Game - Terrance Dicks
The Doctor has been captured and put on trial by his own people - accused of their greatest crime: interfering with the affairs of other peoples and planets. He is sentenced to exile on Earth. That much is history. But now the truth can be told - the Doctor did not go straight into exile. First the Time Lords have a task for him. From the trenches of the Great War to the terrors of the French Revolution, the Second Doctor finds himself on a mission he does not want with a companion he does not like, his life threatened at every turn.
The Time Travellers - Simon Guerrier
The TARDIS touches down in London, 2006, in the middle of a war that has left the city a ruin. Mistaken for vagrants, the First Doctor's granddaughter and compaions find themselves in the execution blocks. The Doctor must help the military refine its ultimate weapon. The British Army has discovered time travel. And the consequences are already terrible.
Atom Bomb Blues - Andrew Cartmel
Los Alamos, 1944. In the American desert the race is on to build an atomic bomb. The Seventh Doctor arrives, posing as a nuclear scientist. Someone, or something, is trying to alter the course of history. As the minutes tick away to the world's first atom bomb test, the Doctor and Ace find themselves up to their necks in spies, aliens (the flying saucer variety) and some very nasty saboteurs from another dimension.
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