Lloyd Rose is an American writer most associated with her work on various ''Doctor Who'' spin-offs. She has also written for the American

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'' Homicide: Life on the Street'' and ''

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''. She often jokes in her biographies that her name is the

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of a writer called Sarah Tonyn (a pun on serotonin), although (despite the information on her

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entry) she has not had any professional writing published under this name.

Work

Rose was the theatre critic for the ''

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''.BBC - Doctor Who - Interview: Lloyd Rose
She adapted the autobiographical comics stories of

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into a stage version of ''

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'', which was produced in 1987 at

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, directed by

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.Koehler, Robert
"Pekar Finally Gets a Peek at 'Splendor': Stage: The underground-comic author can now say that he's pleased with the dramatic adaptation of his work, nine months after it opened,"
''Los Angeles Times'' (July 4, 1991). Rose wrote the season seven story ''Zen and the Art of Murder'' for the series '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' in 1993 and was one of the writers for the 2003 mini-series ''

''. After becoming a fan of the

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, Lloyd sent a proposal for an Eighth Doctor Adventure to

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which eventually became the story '' The City of the Dead'' (BBC Books, 2001). This novel was highly regarded by both the readership and her contemporaries, and led to two further novels — ''

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'' (BBC Books, 2002; winner of the 2002 Doctor Who Magazine Award) and ''

The Algebra of Ice ''The Algebra of Ice'' is a BBC Books original novel written by Lloyd Rose and based on the long-running British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. It features the Seventh Doctor and Ace. Synopsis The Doctor and Ace investigate a ...

'' (BBC Books, 2004) — being published, the latter as part of the BBC's

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range. Following the popular reception for her novels, Rose also wrote an audio adventure for

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, ''

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'' (Big Finish, November 2004).

References

External links

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Outpost Gallifrey's Lloyd Rose pageBig Finish's "Caerdroia" pageInterview
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