David A. McIntee (born 31 December 1968) is a British writer.

Career

McIntee has written many spin-off novels based on the BBC

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'', as well as one each based on '' Final Destination'' and '' Space: 1999''. He has also written a non-fiction book on '' Star Trek: Voyager'' and one jointly on the ''

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'' and ''

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'' movie franchises. He has written several audio plays, and contributed to various magazines including ''

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'', '' SFX'', '' Star Trek Communicator'', Titan's ''

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'', '' Death Ray'', and '' The Official Star Wars Fact Files''. He currently writes for the UK's Asian-entertainment magazine, ''

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'' Between 2006 and 2008, McIntee co-edited an anthology, ''Shelf Life'', in memory of fellow Doctor Who novelist

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, which was published in December 2008 to raise money for the

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. McIntee made the jump to ''

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'' fiction in October 2007, with "On The Spot", a story in the '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' anthology ''The Sky's The Limit''. This was followed with a novella in the anthology ''Seven Deadly Sins'' in March 2010. In January 2008, Blue Water Productions began publishing ''The Kingdom of Hades'', a

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sequel to

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's 1963 movie '' Jason and the Argonauts''. This is a five-issue series, though some early publicity erroneously quoted it as being four issues long. He is following this title with a four-issue mini-series, ''William Shatner Presents: Quest For Tomorrow''. In 2009, Abaddon Books published McIntee's ''The Light of Heaven'', an entry in the publisher's ''Twilight of Kerberos'' series. In 2010,

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published McIntee's novel ''Space: 1999 Born for Adversity''. In 2018, Obverse Books published McIntee's first non-fiction for some years, an analysis of two stories from the Sapphire and Steel television series in collaboration with his wife, Lesley, as part of their

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series of monographs.

''Doctor Who'': ''Avatar''

In mid 1989, McIntee wrote a three-part serial entitled Doctor Who: Avatar,

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is a story that features the Doctor and Ace encounter a zombie invasion during a

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experimentation in 1927. This story was submitted for Season 27 of the program, but was announced in September 1989, the BBC would cancel Doctor Who entirely after airing its 26 season,''A brief history of Doctor Who stories- The Lost Stories- Patrick Sullivan, Shannon'' due to the show having low ratings. In June 1993, McIntee adapted the story as ''Doctor Who: White Darkness'', novelized by Virgin Publishing's.

Bibliography

Doctor Who

Virgin New Adventures

* '' White Darkness'' (1993) * ''

First Frontier ''First Frontier'' is an original novel written by David A. McIntee and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It features the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice. A prelude to the novel, also penned ...

'' (1994) * ''

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'' (1995)

Virgin Missing Adventures

* '' Lords of the Storm'' (1995) * '' The Shadow of Weng-Chiang'' (1996) * '' The Dark Path'' (1997)

Past Doctor Adventures

* '' The Face of the Enemy'' (1998) * '' Mission: Impractical'' (1998) * '' The Wages of Sin'' (1999) * ''

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'' (2001) * '' The Eleventh Tiger'' (2004)

Eighth Doctor Adventures

* '' Autumn Mist'' (1999)

Star Trek

* ''The Sky's The Limit'' story: "On The Spot". (

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, 2007) * ''Seven Deadly Sins'' novella: ''Reservoir Ferengi.'' (

, 2010) * ''Indistinguishable From Magic.'' (

, 2011)

Final Destination

* ''Destination Zero'' (2005)

Space: 1999

* ''Born For Adversity'' (2010)

Other novels

* ''Twilight of Kerberos: The Light of Heaven.'' ( Abaddon Books, 2009, )

Non-fiction

* ''Delta Quadrant: The Unofficial Guide to Voyager'' (

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, 2000) * ''Beautiful Monsters: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to the Alien and Predator Films'' (Telos, 272 pages, 2005, ) * ''

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#1: Sapphire and Steel Assignments 1 &

(2018)

Comics

* ''Ray Harryhausen Presents: Jason and the Argonauts – The Kingdom of Hades'' (with Randy Kintz, 5-issue limited series,

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, November 2007–) * ''William Shatner Presents: Quest For Tomorrow'' (4-issue miniseries,

, 2010)

Audios

Big Finish audio plays

* ''

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'' (2002) * ''

Unregenerate! ''Unregenerate!'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Plot When an empty TARDIS greets Mel, the trail leads to a decrepit asylum, guarded by armed personn ...

'' (2005)

Other audio plays

* ''The Quality of Mercy'' ( BBV, 2003)

References

External links

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Interviews

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