Doctor Who: Death Riders / Heart of Stone
by
Justin Richards
and
Trevor Baxendale
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Country UK
Format Paperback / eBook
Publisher BBC Children's Books
Publication Date February 2011
Original Price £6.99
ISBN 978-1405907576
Original book containing two novella-length stories, featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory.
Back Cover Blurb
A monster made from moon rock is attacking an Earth farm in Heart of Stone. Everything it touches turns to stone — even people. Can the Doctor, Amy and Rory find out what the creature wants before it's too late?
In Death Riders, the Galactic Fair has arrived on the mining planet of Stanalan and the Death Ride roller coaster is really drawing in the crowds. But there's something sinister going on behind all the fun of the fair. Join the Doctor, Amy and Rory as they investigate...
Notes
- The first in an occasional series of "chapter books", the idea of which was that the reader had to flip the book over to read the second story, instead of having the two stories follow on from each other from front to back. Unsurprisingly, this required separate cover images for front and back and the idea was quietly dropped from the third title (Alien Adventures) onwards. Cynics might suggest that this was partly down to unwary purchasers having bought two copies in the belief that they were buying two different items — amazingly, something not unheard of when it had been done with other books and magazines in the past.
- Death Riders was written by Justin Richards, with Heart of Stone by Trevor Baxendale.
- Up to 2012, Heart of Stone remains the only Eleventh Doctor story to have been penned by Trevor Baxendale, although he has previously been reponsible for no less than seven Doctor Who novels as well as two based on Torchwood.
Doctor Who: System Wipe / The Good the Bad and the Alien
by
Oli Smith
and
Colin Brake
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Country UK
Format Paperback / eBook
Publisher BBC Children's Books
Publication Date February 2011
Original Price £6.99
ISBN 978-1405907583
Original book containing two novella-length stories, featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory.
Back Cover Blurb
Aliens have crash-landed in the Wild West and they're ready for a showdown in The Good, the Bad and the Alien! Can the Doctor, Rory and Amy work out which are the good guys and which are the bad?
The Doctor finds himself trapped in a virtual world in System Wipe. As he tries to save the characters of the virtual world from being destroyed by a deadly virus, Amy and Rory must fight to keep the Doctor's body in the real world safe from the mysterious entity known as Legacy...
Notes
- System Wipe was by Oli Smith, with The Good, the Bad and the Alien by Colin Brake.
- The Good, the Bad and the Alien remains the only full-length Eleventh Doctor story to have been penned by Colin Brake, although in 2010 he had written The Coldest War, one of the first pair of game books to feature the character.
Doctor Who: Alien Adventures
by
Richard Dinnick
and
Mike Tucker
Country UK
Format Paperback / eBook
Publisher BBC Children's Books
Publication Date September 2011
Original Price £6.99
ISBN 978-1405907675
Original book containing two novella-length stories, featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory.
Back Cover Blurb
On the planet Xirrinda, terrible tiny creatures swarm down from the sky in Rain of Terror. Can the Doctor, Amy and Rory help the colonists escape from the alien infestation?
The Doctor, Amy and Rory join an undersea exploration ship on the planet Hos in The Underwater War. When a virus infects the crew, they discover the ship is hiding a dangerous secret...
Notes
- Like the earlier books in the series, Alien Adventures consists of two separate stories: The Underwater War by Richard Dinnick, and Rain of Terror by Mike Tucker.
- Alien Adventures saw a slight change of format for the books, as from this release onwards they were just standard books containing two stories one after another. The first two titles had required the reader to flip the book over in order to read the second story.
- When details of the two chapter books due for release in September 2011 were first announced, it was intended that Rain of Terror would be paired with Extra Time, and The Underwater War with Terminal of Despair. In the event, Extra Time would be held over to the sixth book in the series, Step Back in Time, with Terminal of Despair appearing in Sightseeing in Space. The unused cover image for the Rain of Terror half of the first book can be seen above.
- Rain of Terror started life as a proposal for a novel of the same name featuring the Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler and Captain Jack Harkness, which it was intended would be released as part of the second batch of three novels in September 2005. In the event, Mike Tucker felt that he would be unable to make the changes to the storyline that had been requested in the time available to him and the book was dropped in favour of Steve Lyons' The Stealers of Dreams.
- The Underwater War was Richard Dinnick's first (and to date only) full length Doctor Who story. His previous credits had included a short story in Short Trips: The Solar System and several Bernice Summerfield tales, including the audio drama Dead Man's Switch.
Doctor Who: Sightseeing in Space
by
David Bailey
and
Steve Lyons
Country UK
Format Paperback / eBook
Publisher BBC Children's Books
Publication Date September 2011
Original Price £6.99
ISBN 978-1405907675
Original book containing two novella-length stories, featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory.
Back Cover Blurb
A distress signal calls the TARDIS to the Black Horizon, a spaceship that is being attacked by scavengers. But the scavengers aren't the only thing the Doctor needs to worry about, there's something out there creating a Web in Space!
In Terminal of Despair the TARDIS crew find themselves trapped in a quarantined spaceport where the waiting passengers have lost all hope of ever getting home. Can the Doctor save them?
Notes
- Like the earlier books in the series, Sightseeing in Space consists of two separate stories: Web in Space by David Bailey, and Terminal of Despair by Steve Lyons.
- Web in Space was David Bailey's first (and to date only) full length Doctor Who story. His previous credits had included a handful of short stories for the Short Trips range from Big Finish as well as four Bernice Summerfield audio dramas.
Doctor Who: Monstrous Missions
by
Gary Russell
and
Jonathan Green
Country UK
Format Paperback / eBook
Publisher BBC Children's Books
Publication Date February 2012
Original Price £6.99
ISBN 978-1405908047
Original book containing two novella-length stories, featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory.
Back Cover Blurb
Exciting action-packed new original fiction for younger Doctor Who fans, starring the Eleventh Doctor with his companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams. Monstrous Missions contains two fast-paced, fun-filled adventures!
The Doctor and his friends join a group of explorers on a Victorian tramp steamer in Terrible Lizards. The explorers are searching for the Fountain of Youth, but neither they nor the treasure they seek are quite what they seem!
People are mysteriously disappearing on Moonbase Laika. They return with strange bite marks and no idea where they have been. Can the Doctor and his friends get to the bottom of what's going on in Horror of the Space Snakes?
Notes
- Monstrous Missions consists of two separate stories: Terrible Lizards by Gary Russell, and Horror of the Space Snakes by Jonathan Green.
- When details of the two chapter books due for release in early 2012 were first revealed, it was intended that Terrible Lizards would be paired with Web in Space, and Space Snakes (published as Horror of the Space Snakes) with The Water Thief. The contents of the September 2011 and February 2012 books were subsequently given a thorough re-shuffling, with Web in Space ending up in Sightseeing in Space and The Water Thief appearing in Step Back in Time.
- Horror of the Space Snakes was Jonathan Green's first piece of work for the Doctor Who universe.
Doctor Who: Step Back in Time
by
Richard Dungworth
and
Jacqueline Rayner
Country UK
Format Paperback / eBook
Publisher BBC Children's Books
Publication Date February 2012
Original Price £6.99
ISBN 978-1405908054
Original book containing two novella-length stories, featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory.
Back Cover Blurb
Exciting action-packed new original fiction for younger Doctor Who fans, starring the Eleventh Doctor with his companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams. Step Back in Time contains two fast-paced, fun-filled adventures!
The Doctor, Rory and Amy take a trip to the 1966 World Cup in Extra Time. Rory ends up playing a crucial part in this historic football match, while the Doctor and Amy discover that the Doctor isn't the only alien visiting Wembley...
The Water Thief sees the Doctor, Amy and Rory visiting an archaeological site in ancient Egypt. They soon realise there's something unearthly being dug up and it wants all the water it can find...!
Notes
- Step Back in Time contains two stories: Extra Time by Richard Dungworth and The Water Thief by Jacqueline Rayner.
- Extra Time was Richard Dungworth's first full-length standalone piece of fiction for the Doctor Who universe, having previously written the third book in the series of ten Darksmith Legacy stories. He had also written three of the Tenth Doctor game books published between 2007 and 2008.
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