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As we originally told you last year, following the popular monthly release of a new story for each Doctor leading up to the 50th anniversary of the show, the BBC has authorised a new series of short stories featuring different Doctors, this time being written by a number of well known UK authors.
So have you been reading along and following the Doctor on his Time Trips? With each e-book set at a lovely £1.99 each (prices vary in the US from $.99 to $2.57 for each title) these stories are easy on the wallet and great for those times in-between larger books or when you have some free time but don’t want to get into something longer.
If you haven’t checked these out yet, here’s what you’ve been missing…
Doctor Who: The Death Pit by Al Kennedy (released 5 December 2013)
The Fourth Doctor thinks he’s landed in 1978 Chicago, but he’s finds that he’s wandered to the Fetch Brothers Golf Spa Hotel and something isn’t right. All he knows is that he needs to do something very clever, and soon, before things get worse.
Doctor Who: Into The Nowhere by Jenny Colgan (released 16 January 2014)
Clara and the Eleventh Doctor land on a planet that is unknown – so unknown the Doctor has never seen it and it isn’t on any of the TARDIS’s star charts or databases. What happened, what occurred on this planet that was so horrible, it was completely erased from time and space?
Doctor Who: Keeping Up With The Joneses by Nick Harkaway (released 9 February 2014)
The Tenth Doctor is aboard the TARDIS when it runs into a temporal mine. While parts of the ship are slipping in and out of different time periods, an entire Welsh village appears on board. With the help of a familiar looking woman named Christina, the Doctor must find out why the TARDIS enveloped the whole town, how to stop a violent storm that threatens them and the whole universe, and stop whatever else it was the TARDIS brought on board.
Doctor Who: Salt Of The Earth by Trudi Canavan (released 6 March 2014)
The Third Doctor and Jo Grant arrive on the shores of a salt lake in Australia in 2028 for some relaxation. Strange sculptures dot the landscape of the lake, carved out of salt by the locals. People have been leaving these sculptures for years, but these look different somehow, grotesque, distorted, and twisted in pain. Are they really just made of salt?
Doctor Who: A Handful Of Stardust by Jake Arnott (released 3 April 2014)
When the TARDIS is diverted to England 1572, the Sixth Doctor and Peri meet John Dee, ‘mathematician, astrologer, alchemist, magician, and the greatest mind of our time’. But why were the brought there? When the Doctor discovers that Dee and his assistant have used technology they shouldn’t have to find that there is a ‘great disturbance in the cosmos’, the Doctor realises what terrible danger they, and the whole world, are in.
Doctor Who: The Bog Warrior by Cecelia Ahern (released 8 May 2014)
When the Tenth Doctor lands on the planet Cashel, he witnesses a strange masked ball. Prince Zircon must choose a new bride from among the Bog People – the dead resurrected as slaves and warriors – in order to maintain peace. But he his in love with Princess Ash, who’s parents were deposed and murdered by the current Queen. How will the Doctor get out of trouble this time?
Doctor Who: The Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Time Traveller by Joanne Harris (released 4 September 2014)
As his body is being destroyed by radiation, the Third Doctor struggles to get back to UNIT HQ, but instead finds himself in a perfect English village – one that is too perfect. Is this really Earth or somewhere far stranger? As his body weakens, the Doctor enlisted the Queen of the village to help him find the truth.
Sound interesting? They do to me! I admit I haven’t kept up with these stories, but read and loved all of the e-shorts written for the 50th anniversary last year.
According to the pre-order listing for the print version of all these stories, due out in March 2015, author Stella Duffy is also scheduled to be a part of this collection, but there has been no official word on what her involvement might be.
Looks like I have some new reading to do!
Let us know your thoughts on these short stories in the comments below.
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