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Grimm Reality
''Grimm Reality'' is a BBC Books original novel written by Simon Bucher-Jones and Kelly Hale and based on the long-running British science fiction on television, science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner, Fitz and Anji Kapoor, Anji. The novel's secondary title is ''The Marvellous Adventures of Doctor Know-All''. Reception ''Grimm Reality'' won Best Book in the 2001 Jade Pagoda Awards. References External linksThe Cloister Library - ''Grimm Reality''
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Simon Bucher-Jones
Simon Bucher-Jones (born Simon Jones, 6 September 1964) is an author, poet, and amateur actor. He is best known for his Doctor Who novels for Virgin Books, Virgin and BBC Books, BBC and as a contributor to the Faction Paradox spin-off series. Between 1988 and Dec 2018, he worked for the Home Office, in a variety of casework, admin, IT support, and planning positions. From Jan 2019 he was a freelance writer (augmenting this with work as a scare actor (2019, 2021, 2022, 2023), for the Office of National Statistics (Census officer 2021), and for the Isle of Wight Council (Public Realm Assistant 2021, Regulatory Compliance Assistant 2023.)) Jones was born in Liverpool. He is known for a Hard science fiction, hard SF approach. He has written Cthulhu Mythos short stories and reviewed books for the Fortean Times and for small press papers. His poetry has appeared in the Journal of the British Fantasy Society. He has been Treasurer of Age Concern Shanklin since 1st April 2022, and is a f ...
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Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson (writer and producer), Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterrestrial being called the Doctor, part of a humanoid species called Time Lords. The Doctor travels in the universe and in time using a time travelling Spacecraft, spaceship called the TARDIS, which externally appears as a British police box. While travelling, the Doctor works to save lives and liberate oppressed peoples by combating List of Doctor Who villains, foes. The Doctor usually travels with Companion (Doctor Who), companions. Beginning with William Hartnell, List of actors who have played the Doctor, fourteen actors have headlined the series as the Doctor; the most recent being Ncuti Gatwa, who portrayed the Fifteenth Doctor from 2023 to 2025. The transition between actors is written into the plot of the series with the Regeneration ...
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Eighth Doctor Adventures
The ''Eighth Doctor Adventures'' (sometimes abbreviated as EDA or referred to as the EDAs) are a series of spin off novels based on the long running BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' and published under the BBC Books imprint. 73 books were published overall. Publication history Between 1991 and 1997, Virgin Publishing had been producing a successful series of spin off novels under the '' New Adventures'' and '' Missing Adventures'' ranges. However, following the ''Doctor Who'' television movie which introduced the Eighth Doctor in 1996, the BBC did not renew Virgin Publishing's license to continue publishing ''Doctor Who'' material, instead opting to publish their own range. Virgin's last ''New Adventures'' novel, '' The Dying Days'' by Lance Parkin, featured the Eighth Doctor. The ''Eighth Doctor Adventures'' began in 1997 with ''The Eight Doctors'' by Terrance Dicks and continued until 2005. These novels all feature the Eighth Doctor, as portrayed in t ...
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Eighth Doctor
The Eighth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. He is portrayed by Paul McGann. The character was introduced in the 1996 TV film ''Doctor Who'', a back-door pilot produced in an unsuccessful attempt to relaunch the series following its 1989 cancellation. While the Eighth Doctor initially had only one on-screen appearance, his adventures were portrayed extensively in subsequent spin-off media, including more than 70 audio dramas starring McGann. In 2013, the actor reprised the role in the mini-episode "The Night of the Doctor", which depicts the Eighth Doctor's final adventure and his regeneration into the War Doctor (played by John Hurt). McGann subsequently reprised the role in a brief cameo alongside other past incarnations in "The Power of the Doctor" (2022), his first filmed appearance for a televised episode of ''Doctor Who''. Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old ...
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Fitz Kreiner
This is a list of fictional characters who were companion (Doctor Who), companions of the Doctor (Doctor Who), Doctor, in various Doctor Who spinoffs, spinoff media based on the long-running British science fiction on television, science fiction television series, ''Doctor Who''. A Abby Amy, portrayed by Ciara Janson, is a companion of the Fifth Doctor in the ''Key 2 Time'' series, which includes the plays ''The Judgement of Isskar'', ''The Destroyer of Delights'' and ''The Chaos Pool''. She is a human "tracer", a device designed to track down the segments of the Key to Time across the universe. When the Doctor meets Amy, she is just a few seconds old and recruits the Doctor as her companion to find the Key. At the end of ''The Chaos Pool'', Romana (Doctor Who), Romana invites Amy to live on Gallifrey and enroll in their Academy. Amy (now renamed Abby) and her sister Zara return in their own mini-series ''Graceless (Big Finish series), Graceless'', and reunite with the Doct ...
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BBC Books
BBC Books (also formerly known as BBC Consumer Publishing and BBC Publishing) is an imprint majority-owned and managed by Penguin Random House through its Ebury Publishing division. The minority shareholder is BBC Studios, the commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The imprint has been active since the 1980s. BBC Books publishes a range of books connected to BBC radio and television programming, including cookery, natural history, lifestyle, and behind the scenes "making-of" books. There are also some non-programme related biographies and autobiographies of various well-known personalities in its list. Amongst BBC Books' best known titles are cookery books by former TV cook Delia Smith, wildlife titles by Sir David Attenborough and gardening titles by Alan Titchmarsh. In the BBC Publishing days, it turned down ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', a book which has now sold over 14,000,000 copies worldwide. ''Doctor Who'' Since 1996, BBC Books has al ...
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The City Of The Dead (Doctor Who)
The ''Eighth Doctor Adventures'' (sometimes abbreviated as EDA or referred to as the EDAs) are a series of spin off novels based on the long running BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' and published under the BBC Books imprint. 73 books were published overall. Publication history Between 1991 and 1997, Virgin Publishing had been producing a successful series of spin off novels under the '' New Adventures'' and '' Missing Adventures'' ranges. However, following the ''Doctor Who'' television movie which introduced the Eighth Doctor in 1996, the BBC did not renew Virgin Publishing's license to continue publishing ''Doctor Who'' material, instead opting to publish their own range. Virgin's last ''New Adventures'' novel, '' The Dying Days'' by Lance Parkin, featured the Eighth Doctor. The ''Eighth Doctor Adventures'' began in 1997 with ''The Eight Doctors'' by Terrance Dicks and continued until 2005. These novels all feature the Eighth Doctor, as portrayed in the ...
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The Adventuress Of Henrietta Street
''The Adventuress of Henrietta Street'' is a BBC Books original novel written by Lawrence Miles and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji. Plot The destruction of Gallifrey has destabilised time. The Doctor arrives in Earth's history. He allies himself with Scarlette, who owns a brothel. They plan for the Doctor to marry Juliette, who works in the brothel. Writing and development The novel is written in the style of a history text, drawing on the genre of historical biographies and has been compared to Thomas Pynchon's '' Mason & Dixon''.''Time and Relative Dissertations in Space: Critical Perspectives on Doctor Who'' by David Butler, Manchester University Press, 2007, p. 66 This novel sees the first named appearance of the villain Sabbath, who subsequently appeared in many of the following novels. Sabbath is presented as an antagonist and a narrative double to the character of the Doctor ...
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Science Fiction On Television
Science fiction first appeared in television programming in the late 1930s, during what is called the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Special effects and other production techniques allow creators to present a living visual image of an imaginary world not limited by the constraints of reality. Visual production process and methods The need to portray imaginary settings or characters with properties and abilities beyond the reach of current reality obliges producers to make extensive use of specialized techniques of television production. Through most of the 20th century, many of these techniques were expensive and involved a small number of dedicated craft practitioners, while the reusability of props, models, effects, or animation techniques made it easier to keep using them. The combination of high initial cost and lower maintenance cost pushed producers into building these techniques into the basic concept of a series, influencing all the artistic choices. By the late 199 ...
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2001 British Novels
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