Doctor Who
Original Novels: Telos Novellas: 2001
Telos Novellas

In March 2001 it was announced that Telos Publishing had agreed a licence with BBC Worldwide to publish a series of original novellas based on Doctor Who.

Each book was available in two seperate editions. The standard hardbacks featured the novella and the foreword, whereas the deluxe editions had a better covering and binding, full-colour frontispiece, integral bookmark, and were signed in each case by the author, the writer of the foreword and the frontispiece artist.

After a promisng start, it was a major surprise when, after just three titles had been released, Telos revealed that the BBC had declined to extend their licence beyond March 2004.

With the range coming to an end, Daniel O'Mahony's The Cabinet of Light, released in August 2003, was used as the springboard for the Time Hunter novellas, a new spin-off series which featured the characters Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish.

The fifteenth and final volume, in February 2004, was Simon Clark's The Dalek Factor.

Despite the untimely cancellation of the range, the Telos novellas are now widely regarded as being a successful attempt to try something slightly different with a familiar concept.
Doctor Who: Time and Relative

Doctor Who: Time and Relative cover image
by Kim Newman
  • UK
  • Hardback
  • Telos Publishing
  • November 2001
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Other Editions
Doctor Who: Time and Relative
Click for frontispiece art UK / Deluxe Hardback / Telos Publishing / November 2001
Back Cover Blurb
The harsh British winter of 1962/3 brings a big freeze and with it comes a new, far greater menace: terrifying icy creatures are stalking the streets, bringing death and destruction. The first Doctor and Susan, currently on Earth, are caught up in the crisis. The Doctor seems to know what is going on, but is uncharacteristically detached and furtive, almost as if he is losing his memory... Susan, isolated from her grandfather and finding it hard to fit in with the human teenagers at Coal Hill School, tries to cope by recording her thoughts in a diary. But she too feels her memory slipping away and her past unravelling. Is she even sure who she is any more?
Regular Characters
First Doctor / Susan Foreman
Notes
  • The foreword and afterword to Time and Relative were written by Justin Richards, the consulting editor for the BBC's own ranges of Doctor Who books.
  • Time and Relative is Kim Newman's first, and to date only, piece of original fiction for the Doctor Who universe, although he is well known for his horror writing and can often be seen on television whenever a knowledgeable comment about genre film or television programmes are required.
  • Time and Relative was the first Doctor Who book to feature the First Doctor and Susan which was set before the events of 100,000 BC, the very first story from the television series. Tara Samms' Frayed in November 2003 was set during the same time period.