He was also the author chosen to deliver the nominal 35th anniversary story, The Infinity Doctors, and the final volume in the Eighth Doctor Adventures range, The Gallifrey Chronicles. Indeed, he was notably the first author to write original prose for the Eighth Doctor in The Dying Days. He is one of the few authors to write for both the 19 version of the programme - though much of his fiction has actually been based on the 1996 iteration. He is further notable for his work with Big Finish Productions, where he is arguably most known for writing the Sixth Doctor adventure, D Lance Parkin is an author who has written professional Doctor Who fiction since the 1990s. More recently, he has written for the Tenth Doctor in The Eyeless. For the rest, see the recent releases on the ‘ Out Now‘ page, and my blog for news about upcoming projects.Lance Parkin is an author who has written professional Doctor Who fiction since the 1990s. For fans of long and unwieldy lists, there’s a year-by-year timeline of everything here. That breaks down pretty evenly between fiction and non-fiction.

I’ve had about thirty books published – the exact number varies depending on how you count new editions, and how you count a book that was co-written. Dive in and have fun who doesn’t wonder about utopian warmongering? The book is nominally part of the Faction Paradox universe, but if you don’t know the series, no prior knowledge is necessary. I’ve a soft spot for Warlords of Utopia, a science fiction novel about every parallel universe where Rome never fell going to war with every parallel universe where Hitler won. I think, on balance, my favourite ‘classic’ Doctor Who novel, at least to recommend to a relatively casual reader, is Father Time. If you’re a fan of the new series, I’m proud of my tenth Doctor novel The Eyeless. That’s one where the many strands of my writing career come together, biography, science fiction, some pretty hefty research and the narrative history of a genre as a whole.įor Doctor Who … well, the increasingly insane Ahistory provides surprising details that even the hardest of the hardcore will appreciate. Of course, the author is generally a terrible judge of that … but for me, my favourite is almost certainly the Alan Moore biography, Magic Words.

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Doctor Who by Lance Parkin