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Date   : Fri Jun 26 04:41:00 1998
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Doctor Who In Books

			  Forthcoming Book Schedule

 (June 14th, 1998)

 APRIL
 Legacy Of The Daleks by John Peel
		 (Eighth Doctor; ISBN: 0 563 40574 0)
 The Hollow Men by Martin Day and Keith Topping
		 (Seventh Doctor, Ace; ISBN: 0 563 40582 1)
 The Medusa Effect by Justin Richards
		 (Bernice; ISBN: 0 426 20524 3)

 MAY
 Dreamstone Moon by Paul Leonard
		 (Eighth Doctor, Sam; ISBN: 0 563 40585 6)
 Catastrophea by Terrance Dicks
		 (Third Doctor, Jo; ISBN: 0 563 40584 8)
 Dry Pilgrimage by Paul Leonard and Nick Walters
		 (Bernice; ISBN: 0 426 20525 1)

 JUNE
 Seeing I by Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman
		 (Eighth Doctor, Sam; ISBN: 0 563 40586 4)
 Mission: Impractical by David A McIntee
		 (Sixth Doctor, Frobisher; ISBN: 0 563 40592 9)
 The Sword Of Forever by Jim Mortimore
		 (Bernice; ISBN: 0 426 20526 X)
 Who On Earth Is Tom Baker? by Tom Baker
		 (softcover; ISBN: 0 0063 8854 X)

 JULY
 Placebo Effect by Gary Russell
		 (Eighth Doctor, Sam; ISBN: 0 563 40587 2)
 Zeta Major by Simon Messingham
		 (Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan; ISBN: 0 563 40597 X)

 AUGUST
 Vanderdeken's Children by Christopher Bulis
		 (Eighth Doctor, Sam; ISBN: 0 563 40590 7)
 Dreams Of Empire by Justin Richards
		 (Second Doctor, Jamie, Victoria; ISBN: 0 563 40598 8)
 Another Girl, Another Planet by Martin Day and Len Beech
		 (Bernice; ISBN: 0 426 20528 6)

 SEPTEMBER
 The Scarlet Empress by Paul Magrs
		 (Eighth Doctor, Sam; ISBN: 0 563 40595 3)
 Last Man Running by Chris Boucher
		 (Fourth Doctor, Leela; ISBN: 0 563 40594 5)
 The Television Companion by David J Howe and Stephen James Walker

 OCTOBER
 Beltempest by Jim Mortimore
		 (Eighth Doctor, Sam; ISBN: 0 563 40593 7)
 Matrix by Mike Tucker and Robert Perry
		 (Seventh Doctor, Ace; ISBN: 0 563 40596 1)
 Beige Planet Mars by Lance Parkin and Mark Clapham
		 (Bernice)
 Doctor Who: From A-Z by Gary Gillatt
		 (ISBN: 0 563 40589 9)

 NOVEMBER
 The Janus Conjunction by Trevor Baxendale
		 (Eighth Doctor, Sam; ISBN: 0 563 40599 6)
 The Infinity Doctors by Lance Parkin
		 (Eighth Doctor; ISBN: 0 563 40591 0)
 The Seventh Doctor Handbook by David J Howe, Mark Stammers and Stephen
 James Walker Five Rounds Rapid by Nicholas Courtney

 DECEMBER
 Where Angels Fear by Rebecca Levene and Simon Winstone

 JANUARY
 The Taint by Mike Collier
		 (Eighth Doctor, Sam, Fitz)
 Salvation by Steve Lyons
		 (First Doctor, Steven, Dodo)

 FEBRUARY
 Wages Of Sin by David A McIntee
		 (Third Doctor, Liz, Jo)
 Short Trips 2 edited by Stephen Cole

 APRIL
 Autumn Mist by David A McIntee
		 (Eighth Doctor, Sam, Fitz)


			   Forthcoming Book Notes

 (June 14th, 1998)

    * Legacy Of The Daleks (which at one point in its development was a
	Third Doctor story) sees the Eighth Doctor confront the Delgado
	Master and apparently also includes the return of Susan
    * Despite earlier statements that Paul McGann would not appear on any
	of the BBC book covers, the Eighth Doctor appears alongside his
	seven predecessors on the cover of Short Trips
    * The Hollow Men was originally due to feature the Eighth Doctor, but
	has been rewritten for the Seventh Doctor and Ace. Also, former
	editor Nuala Buffini was so pleased with the Waro (from Devil
	Goblins From Neptune) that she asked Day and Topping to bring them
	back in a future novel, apparently titled Setting Suns: The Return
	Of The Waro. However, whether current editor Steve Cole is
	interested in the creatures' return is unknown, and Day and Topping
	have yet to even finish a plot outline for the novel, let alone
	seek a formal commission.
    * Catastrophea sees the return of the Draconians
    * Frobisher will indeed be the companion in David A McIntee's Sixth
	Doctor novel Mission: Impractical. After permission to include the
	shape-shifting Whifferdill (who habitually appeared as a penguin)
	was granted by both Steve Cole and Doctor Who Magazine editor Gary
	Gillatt, higher powers within the BBC threatened to block
	Frobisher's use, but this situation has now been resolved.
	Definitely appearing in Mission: Impractical are Sabalom Glitz and
	his partner, Dibber, as well as the Veltrochni, the Ogrons and a
	Tzun.
    * The Wirrrn and Foamasi return in Placebo Effect, as do Stacy
	Townsend and the Ice Warrior Ssard, the Eighth Doctor's companions
	in Russell's Radio Times comic strip.
    * Zeta Major is a sequel to Planet Of Evil.
    * The Scarlet Empress sees the return of Iris Wildthyme, a character
	from Paul Magrs' short story in Short Trips, in an Arabian
	Nights-type adventure.
    * Chris Boucher, scriptwriter of The Face Of Evil, The Robots Of Death
	and Image Of The Fendahl is the author of September's Last Man
	Running.
    * Matrix focuses around the Whitechapel murders.
    * The Infinity Doctors will celebrate Doctor Who's thirty-fifth
	anniversary and according to Lance Parkin is "a Paul McGann Missing
	Adventure with a twist." The story is set on Gallifrey, and
	features the return of unspecified "old faces", including one from
	a previous Parkin novel.
    * The Seventh Doctor Handbook does in fact cover both the Seventh and
	Eighth Doctors. Due to licensing arrangements (and an unwillingness
	to modify the cover design for the last volume of the series),
	however, the Eighth Doctor does not appear in any way on the front
	cover, though he is mentioned on the back.
    * Five Rounds Rapid is the autobiography of Nicholas Courtney
	(Brigadier Lethrbidge-Stewart).
    * Plans to have Sam Jones appear on the cover of a BBC novel have
	reportedly been shelved when, after several attempts to include her
	on front and back covers, Steve Cole finally decided she didn't
	look right. Her image may still be used in promotional materials,
	however.
    * Paul Cornell had hoped to feature Bernice Summerfield in a BBC Books
	novel, but this idea has been nixed by higher powers within the BBC.
    * Much like 1997, there will be no December 1998 releases from BBC
	Books
    * Wages Of Sin is a historical set in during the last days of
	Rasputin, and was originally written for the First Doctor.
    * Autumn Mist is set around Bastogne in December 1944 and described by
	McIntee as "sort of Kelly's Heroes meets The X-Files.
    * Amongst the Eighth Doctor novels slated to appear in 1999 is
	Revolution Man by Paul Leonard, which takes place in the 1960s and
	is about "flower power, drugs, telekinesis and for a change no
	aliens".
    * Philip Segal and Gary Russell will team up to pen the
	long-anticipated Doctor Who: Regeneration, a hardcover which will
	painstakingly detail the making of the 1996 TV movie.

		       BBC Books Unveils New Companion

 (May 22nd, 1998) 1999 sees the addition of a third member to the TARDIS
crew. Joining the Eighth Doctor and Sam Jones is Fitz Kreiner, a 27
year-old from 1963 Earth. (Kreiner is pronounced KRY-ner; originally it
was to be spelt Kriener until it was pointed out that the pronounciation
would then be KREE-ner.) The son of a German fugitive from the Nazis, the
resulting ostracisation Fitz felt while growing up in Windsor has left him
solitary and cynical, the type of person who does not suffer fools gladly.
Fitz is a musician and something of an actor, apt to play "roles" as they
suit him. Disillusioned with a world he believes is flawed, Fitz sees
travelling with the Doctor as a way of discovering better opportunities
denied him on Earth in the 1960s. In his original biography sketch, editor
Steve Cole describes Fitz as "combining Vila from Blake's 7 with Gerald
Harper from Adam Adamant Lives! with a measure of Robert Carlyle thrown in
for good measure!" Fitz joins the TARDIS crew in Mike Collier's The Taint
in January. Perhaps unusually, Fitz was created for BBC Books by Rebecca
Levene, who edited the Virgin line of Doctor Who novels for several years.

			 BBC Books Hit North America

 (Apr. 26th, 1998) After months of waiting, fans in Canada and the United
States have joined their counterparts in the rest of the world in
receiving regular shipments of the new BBC Doctor Who novels. After
lengthy negotiations, BBC Books has reached distrubtion agreements with
London Bridge (in the US) and General Distributors (in Canada) which will
see novels become available between one and two months behind the UK
release dates, on par with Australia and New Zealand (who have had
distribution deals in place for several months). And, contrary to previous
reports, it appears that at least some bokstores are in fact putting all
the BBC novels back to the original June 1997 releases on their shelves,
as opposed to just the most recent ones.

		     Changes In Store For New Adventures

 (May 26th, 1998) After a year which has seen the line survive the loss of
its link to the TV series from which it was born, Virgin's New Adventures
will undergo significant modifications to ensure its stability for the
foreseeable future. For creative (rather than financial) reasons, the NAs
will be switching to a bimonthly release schedule beginning with June's
The Sword Of Forever. And, beginning in August is a trilogy of novels,
culminating in the pivotal Where Angels Fear, co-written by former series
editor Rebecca Levene and new editor Simon Winstone (Winstone has handled
the day-to-day duties on the NAs since Oh No It Isn't! and has taken on
additional responsibilities since then -- editing, for instance, Walking
To Babylon; he fully takes over Levene's Senior Editor position with
Another Girl, Another Planet when Levene leaves Virgin to pursue a job in
television). The covers will also be redesigned, losing the "New
Adventures" logo from the front (but maintaining the "NA" logo on the
spine), in the hope that the series will become more marketable amongst
general science-fiction readers in North America.


Doctor Who In General

		      Forthcoming Merchandise Schedule

 (June 14th, 1998)

 APRIL
 Terror Of The Zygons                           (PAL laser disc, UK)

 MAY
 The Mind Of Evil                               (PAL video, UK)
 Lust In Space                                  (PAL video, UK)
 The Happiness Patrol                           (PAL video, Australia)

 JULY
 The Horror Of Fang Rock                        (PAL video, UK)
 The E-Space Trilogy                            (PAL video, Australia)
 Where On Earth IS Katy Manning?                (PAL video, UK)

 AUGUST
 Spearhead From Space                           (PAL laser disc, UK)

 SEPTEMBER
 Planet Of Fire                                 (PAL video, UK)
 Timelash                                       (PAL video, Australia)
 Oh No It Isn't!                                (audio tape)
 Beyond The Sun                                 (audio tape)

 OCTOBER
 The Ark                                        (PAL video, UK)

 NOVEMBER
 The Ice Warriors                               (PAL video, UK)
 Battlefield                                    (PAL video, Australia)
 The Ark                                        (NTSC video, North America)
 The Ice Warriors                               (NTSC video, North America)
 The Mind Of Evil                               (NTSC video, North America)
 Horror Of Fang Rock                            (NTSC video, North America)
 K-9 and Company                                (NTSC video, North America)
 Planet Of Fire                                 (NTSC video, North America)

 JANUARY
 Nightmare Of Eden                              (PAL video, UK)
 Revenge Of The Cybermen/Terror Of The Zygons   (PAL video, UK)

 MARCH
 The Keys Of Marinus                            (PAL video, UK)

 MAY
 The Face Of Evil                               (PAL video, UK)

 JULY
 The Greatest Show In The Galaxy                (PAL video, UK)

			Forthcoming Merchandise Notes

 (June 11th, 1998)

    * As with Short Trips, an audio version of Short Trips 2 will be made
	available. With the book having been pushed back to February,
	presumably the audio release (originally slater for October) will
	also be delayed, though this has not been confirmed.
    * The release of The Mind Of Evil is in black and white, but includes
	five minutes of footage recolorised from the extant color American
	clip, added at the end of the tape.
    * A recent report suggested the 1996 FOX telefilm would be released on
	video in May, but this was denied by a Universal spokesperson.
	However, the MCA/Universal Video website does list a two-hour
	Doctor Who movie in their catalogue, but includes no other
	information, so it is impossible to confirm whether or not this is
	in reference to the telefilm, and if so, when it will be released.
    * Reeltime Pictures' Lust In Space sees Doctor Who put on trial as a
	sexist programme; the video stars Nicholas Courtney as the judge,
	Mark Strickson as the prosecutor, James Bree as the attroney for
	the defense, and Anneke Wills, Katy Manning, Louise Jameson, Sarah
	Sutton and Sophie Aldred as witnesses.
    * Briefly on the schedule was an audio collection of four Fourth
	Doctor stories narrated by Tom Baker (including three new stories
	plus a fourth drawn from Short Trips). However, this project has
	now been suspended, apparently as a result of conflicts with Baker.
    * En route for September are two audio tapes based on the first and
	third Bernice Summerfield-led New Adventures, Paul Cornell's Oh No
	It Isn't! (adapted by Jac Rayner) and Matt Jones' Beyond The Sun
	(adapted by the author). Unlike most audio versions of novels,
	these will not simply be narrations of the books, but will in fact
	be fully-fledged audio plays, with a full cast -- including Lisa
	Bowerman (Karra in Survival) as
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