There appears to have been a change of plans for the two Doctor Who audio books being released in April, with Doctor Who and the Daemons being replaced by The Myth Makers, a reading of Donald Cotton's utterly barking 1985 novelisation based on Dennis Spooner's original 1965 television story.

Actor Stephen Thorne, whose television Doctor Who credits include the roles of both Azal and Omega, will be narrating The Myth Makers, with Tom Baker reading Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit.

The same month also sees the first in a series of original Doctor Who audio stories being released, along similar lines to the two Sarah Jane Adventures stories releases in November and the two Torchwood CDs which are due for release in February. The first title to released will be Pest Control by Peter Anghelides, although details have yet to be announced about who will be reading it.

Mad Norwegian Press have announced that the proposed fourth volume in their I, Who non-fiction series, which looked at the Doctor Who novels and audio dramas, will now not go ahead.

Instead, the company will be launching an entirely new multi-book project, titled Fluid Links, which will provide an in-depth look at the books and audio dramas, as well as including essays on various themes that arose from them. In essence, it will take over from the recently completed About Time series of books which examined the original television series.

The first target in their sights will be a comprehensive overview of the Eighth Doctor Adventures published by BBC Books between 1997 and 2005, and will possibly be in two volumes.

As ever with Mad Norwegian projects, a confirmed release date will not be announced until closer to the time.

Newtons Sleep, the first Faction Paradox novel from Random Static, has now been confirmed for release in January 2008.

Pre-orders are now being taken, with the book being priced at NZ$29.95. Postage to Australia and New Zealand is free, but for everyone else it will add another NZ$10 to the price — that currently works out at around £15.40 in total for UK buyers.

Details have started to appear of a reading based on Charles Chilton's novelisation of his first Journey Into Space radio serial.

The original eighteen-part story was first broadcast between September 1953 and January 1954, and it this version which was used as the basis of Chilton's novelisation later in 1954. The subsequent thirteen-part Operation Luna re-make in 1958 omitted much of the material from the early episodes of the original production, and as all but a small fragment of the original version is missing, the book is the only available source for people who want the complete story.

Details about the narrator and how many CDs will be in the package have yet to be announced.

David Llewellyn's February 2008 novel now appears to have undergone a change of title from Back Stories to Horaizan.

UK supermarket chain Tesco are now stocking an exclusive four book set containing paperback editions of The Stone Rose, The Art of Destruction, The Nightmare of Black Island and the Cybermen story Made of Steel. This is not available from their online shop, and appears to be only available from larger retail outlets for £5.

Details of the next Faction Paradox audio drama from Magic Bullet have now been announced. Body Politic, again scripted by series creator Lawrence Miles, will be released as a single CD. No date has yet been set for its release.

With Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas being due for release shortly, Big Finish have made Cavan Scott and Mark Wright's Faithful Friends: Part One available for download as a PDF file to tempt potential buyers.

Details of two further audio books based on the Doctor Who novelisations from Target Books have now started to appear online.

Doctor Who and the Daemons and Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit are both due to be released by BBC Worldwide in April 2008. The former is based on the classic Third Doctor story which was novelised by co-writer Barry Letts in 1974, while the latter is based on David Fisher's novelisation of his own Fourth Doctor script.

Big Finish have announced that the non-fiction title Bernice Summerfield: The Inside Story has been delayed until November.

The cover and back cover blurb to Newtons Wake, the first book in Random Static's forthcoming series of Faction Paradox novels, has now been revealed — check the Forthcoming Releases page for further details. Publication is still scheduled for later this year, with a second title believed to have been commissioned from Simon Bucher-Jones.

The authors and titles to the three Torchwood books due for release in March have now been revealed. Back Stories is from David Llewellyn, Something in the Water is written by Trevor Baxendale, with Gary Russell penning The Twilight Streets.

Details of audio books based on the Forever Autumn, Sick Building and Wetworld have started to appear online. All three are due to be released in March 2008.

Details have now appeared online of a further four titles in the Decide Your Destiny series of Doctor Who game books. Lost Luggage by Colin Brake, Second Skin by Richard Dungworth, The Dragon King by Trevor Baxendale, and Racing Moon by Davey Moore are all due to be released in March 2008.

Big Finish have announced that Short Trips: Defining Patterns has now been delayed again until March 2008. The Ghosts of Christmas Past will still be out as scheduled in December.

To publicise the release of Nobody's Children, the recent Bernice Summerfield collection, an extract from Kate Orman's All Mimsy were the Borogroves has been made available to download from their webiste. As usual, it is in the form of a PDF file.

With the second season of the kids' spy series with a sci-fi twist due to be shown on BBC One early in 2008, Puffin Books are releasing four books based on the series, each containing novelisations of two episodes.

A New Generation and Secrets and Spies, both by Johnny Zucker, are released in January while two further as-yet untitled volumes will be appearing in March.

No information is yet available as to which episodes will be novelised — or even from which season they will be from — but all four will apparently contain eight pages of colour photographs.

And as if Puffin Books won't be busy enough with the M.I. High books, there are also plans afoot for novelisations based on ITV1's dinosaurs and time travel series Primeval. As yet there is nothing else known about the episodes being novelised, the authors writing them or even what they'll be called, but the first four will be released in late March 2008, presumably to capitalise on publicity for the seven-part Season Two which will be on ITV1 sometime in the New Year.

Amazon.co.uk have now added details for the three Doctor Who books due to be released in May 2008. Martha in the Mirror is being written by regular Doctor Who novelist Justin Richards, Snowglobe 7 is by Mike Tucker, and The Many Hands will be the first New Series Adventure from Dale Smith. Interestingly, all three appear to feature Martha Jones rather than Donna Noble, who by May next year will be travelling in the TARDIS alongside the Tenth Doctor.

Information has also been added on the two book readings due for release in February 2008. Doctor Who and the Space War is being read by Geoffrey Beevers, while Fourth Doctor actor Tom Baker will be reading Terrance Dicks' Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius.

A new press release about the television series has revealed the title for the opening two-part story, and as expected the villains are none other than the Slitheen, who appeared in three episodes of the 2005 season of Doctor Who.

Corrected details have also appeared online about the authors of the four novelisations due for release in early November. Invasion of the Bane is being written by Terrance Dicks. The previously untitled book, presumably to be called Revenge of the Slitheen after the television story, is by Rupert Laight. Eye of the Gorgon is by Philip Stratford, while the fourth book, Warriors of Kudlak, is from Gary Russell.

Also released the same month are two audio stories. The Glittering Storm is written by Stephen Cole, while The Thirteenth Stone is by Justin Richards. Both of these are original stories and are being read by Elisabeth Sladen who plays Sarah Jane Smith on television.

Amazon.co.uk are now listing three new Torchwood books for pre-order. All are due to be released in February 2008, but as yet there are no details of titles of authors. The same month also sees the release of three original audio stories on CD. Everyone Says Hello by Dan Abnett, Hidden by Steven Saville, and In the Shadows by Joseph Lidster who will be making his television writing debut with a Season Two episode of Torchwood, which is currently expected to start on BBC Two in January 2008.

Details have started to appear online of what appears to be May 2008's set of three Doctor Who novels. Martha in the Mirror, Snowglobe 7 and The Many Hands are all due to be released on 1 May, but there are no indications as yet of who the authors are. These, presumably, will feature new companion Donna Noble, who first appeared in the Christmas 2006 episode The Runaway Bride.

Also announced are two further readings based on the Doctor Who novelisations from Target Books. Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius and Doctor Who and the Space War are both due to be released on 4 February. No details are yet available of who will be reading them.

Collected Stories, containing the audio book versions of the first six Tenth Doctor New Series Adventures is due to be released in October.

Big Finish have announced that Short Trips: Defining Patterns has now been delayed until November.

Mad Norwegian Press have announced that a second edition of Lance Parkin's unofficial Doctor Who chronology A History will be published in December 2007

The latest edition will include information on all the television episodes aired since the first Mad Norwegian edition in February 2006, including from the spin-off series Torchwood and the Sarah Jane Adventures. Information has also been added to accurately date all the books up to April 2007's releases, and for the first time integrates information about all the comic strips from Doctor Who Weekly/Magazine since its launch in 1979, as well as details of the famous Dalek comic strip from TV21 in the 1960s.

Online comments from editor Lars Pearson and author Lance Parkin suggest that the extra content is between 50-75,000 words!

David J Howe's forthcoming non-fiction tome, The Target Book, will now also be made available as a limited edition hardback, with only 100 copies being produced.

Details of the Bernice Summerfield releases for 2008 have now been announced, and will consist of four single CD audio dramas and a novel, Terra Incognita, to be written by Ben Aaronovitch. Full details have been added to the Forthcoming Releases page.

All reports in this section refer to US releases.

• Kolchak: The Night Stalker
  The next release from Moonstone Books is set to be an omnibus edition of Jeff Rice's two Kolchak titles from the 1970s.
  
  The Kolchak Papers was the original manuscript which was turned into The Night Stalker for ABC in 1972 by Richard Matheson and which was eventually published by Pocket Books under its TV title. The Night Strangler was Jeff Rice's novelisation of Richard Matheson's script to the second Kolchak TV movie.
  
  The Kolchak Papers will be available in three editions: a standard paperback for $16.95; a numbered, cloth-bound, slipcased hardback signed by Jeff Rice, limited to 300 copies and available from the Moonstone website for $104; and a lettered, silk-bound, slipcased hardback signed by Jeff Rice, limited to 26 copies and available from the Moonstone website for a mere $255...

Details have been announced of the two Doctor Who audio books to be released in November. Narrated by Martin Jarvis and Tom Baker respectively, Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion and Doctor Who and the Giant Robot will be readings of the original novelisations from Target Books.

As ever, the artwork originally created for the book releases is being used on the covers, although Giant Robot will use the reprint art by Jeff Cummins, rather than the original piece by Peter Brookes. Long-term collectors of the novelisations will no doubt be delighted to see that Dinosaur Invasion uses the original artwork from Chris Achilleos, complete with yellow "KKLAK!" on the cover!

It's recently been revealed that Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership will contain the very first piece of Doctor Who fiction from Peter David, who has some claim to being one of the best Star Trek tie-in writers around. David has previously written the introduction to I, Who 2, the second in the series of non-fiction books from Mad Norwegian Press which chronicle the various Doctor Who novel and audio adventures.

Magic Bullet have announced that at least two more Faction Paradox audio dramas will be produced. Further details are expected soon.

More surprising is the news that Random Static have announced a new series of Faction Paradox novels. The first title, to be released late this year, will be Newtons Wake from Daniel O'Mahony.

The broadcast of the recent Blink episode of Doctor Who on 9 June proved to be rather familiar to some people as Steven Moffat's near Doctor-less episode was very loosely based on a story which he originally wrote for Panini's Doctor Who Annual 2006.

Since the transmission, What I Did On My Christmas Holiday by Sally Sparrow has been uploaded to the programme's official website, along with the original illustrations by Martin Geraghty.

And in other news, although details have yet to be officially announced, Amazon UK are currently listing a new book titled Revenge of the Judoon for release in March 2008. Written by veteran Doctor Who author Terrance Dicks, it appears to be the third Doctor Who book to be published as part of the Quick Reads initiative, and is set to star the Judoon who first appeared in Smith and Jones from the recently concluded third season.

Four books based on the Doctor Who spin-off series are now being listed at Amazon UK for release in November. The first title is Invasion of the Bane — obviously a novelisation of the sixty-minute pilot episode shown on New Year's Day. The remaining three books are currently untitled and no authors are named. More details as and when...

The three Tenth Doctor novels due for release in December are now being shown in online catalogues. The three titles are: The Pirate Loop by Simon Guerrier, Wishing Well by Trevor Baxendale and The Peacemaker by James Swallow.

All three authors are new to the Tenth Doctor books, although Guerrier and Baxendale have previously written for the BBC's old ranges of Doctor Who novels.

And in other news, the eBook of Paul Cornell's Human Nature has now been made available for download again after being taken down temporarily while the two-part television adaptation was airing. The book is now available in several new formats (including as a PDF file) and has gained a new section describing how the book was adapted for the small screen.

Short Trips: Destination Prague has now been delayed until June, when it will be released alongside the next anthology, Short Trips: Snapshots. And to publicise that volume, Big Finish have made Eddie Robson's Remain in Light available to download from their web site in PDF format.

The latest Bernice Summerfield novel, The Two Jasons, was unexpectedly released in May. A sample chapter from Dave Stone's novel is now available to download and read from the Big Finish web site.

2007's collection of three Benny novellas, Nobody's Children, is now confirmed for release in August.

All reports in this section refer to US releases.

• Babylon 5
  The long and rather ugly saga of a proposed range of Babylon 5 novels from Mongoose Publishing has finally come to an end with the series being abandoned without a single volume being released.
  
  Although officially licensed, the range had been beset by troubles, not least the lack of approval from series creator J Michael Straczynski which had seemingly set a large minority of fans against the company and their project from the outset.
  
  Despite the cancellation, one of the completed novels, Ranger Dawning, has been made available online for free download by its author Richard Ford. The book can be found at lulu.com, although free registration is required before the book can be downloaded.
• V
  Kenneth Johnson's new V novel is now scheduled for release in October. V: The Second Generation will be released in both hardback and trade paperback and picks up the story a generation on from the original invasion by the Visitors in the first V mini-series.
  
  Johnson's dislike of the follow-up mini-series The Final Battle and the weekly V series is well known, meaning that The Second Generation will completely ignore any events or character development which occurred in them.

An unforseen event has occurred which has impacted upon the transmission date of the two-part Doctor Who story based on Paul Cornell's Human Nature!

The series will now be taking a one week break in order to accomodate the Eurovision Song Contest on 12 May, meaning that Human Nature and The Family of Blood will now be shown on 26 May and 2 June respectively.

The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine (#382) has revealed that BBC Worldwide will be releasing further audio books based on the Doctor Who novelisations published by Target Books.

Doctor Who and the Cave-Monsters is being narrated by Caroline John with Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon being read by Geoffrey Beevers.

These two releases apparently mark the start of a regular release schedule, with two unabridged readings being released every two months. The first two titles are priced at £17.99 each and will each contain 4 CDs.

Hot on the heals of the announcement that Sky One will be producing a mini-series based on the very first Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, is the appearance on release lists of The Colour of Magic: The Illustrated Screenplay from Gollancz. The book is currently scheduled for release in November, but as the mini-series is not shooting until this summer and is believed to be due on screen in 2008, that date may well slip.

The two-part story based on Paul Cornell's 1995 Doctor Who novel Human Nature is due to be screened this month. Barring unforeseen events Human Nature will be screened on Saturday 19 May and The Family of Blood on Saturday 26 May.

Long-term readers of Doctor Who fiction will be well aware that five of the television stories broadcast between 1963 and 1989 were never novelised by Target Books. The New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club subsequently published their own unofficial novelisations of these stories during the 1980s and 1990s.

All five titles are now unavailable for purchase, but the decision has been made to make them available online. To date, The Pirate Planet, Shada and Revelation of the Daleks have all been uploaded as PDF files with the novelisations of City of Death and Resurrection of the Daleks due to follow over the coming months.

War Stories, 2007's collection of three novellas, has undergone a change of title and will now be released as Nobody's Children.

Fans of UK telefantasy may recall the short-lived supernatural drama Strange which starred Richard Coyle as the demon hunting ex-priest John Strange.

Five years on from the broadcast of the pilot episode, series creator Andrew Marshall has written Ramset, a short story that seemingly ties up the series and which can be read at the link above.

Fans of another UK series mentioned on this page may also be interested in the story for reasons which should become apparent on reading it...

All reports in this section refer to US releases.

• Star Trek (Cafe Press / Roddenberry Online)
  Roddenberry.com, in association with Cafe Press, has commenced publication of a series of Star Trek scripts books which are intended to eventually collect together the scripts to all six Star Trek television series.
  
  The first nine volumes are currently available, taking the range up to the end of Season Two of Star Trek. Each volume contains the scripts to approximately six to seven episodes and is priced at $39.99.
  
  Full details of the range to date will be added to the website next month.

Issue 380 of Doctor Who Magazine revealed that the success of the first three Torchwood novels, which were released shortly after Christmas, has resulted in BBC Books adding an extra three Doctor Who novels to their 2007 schedule. This increases the total number of hardback novels due out in 2007 to nine, with the final batch of three being scheduled for release in December.

Audio readings of the three New Series Adventures released this month (The Last Dodo / Sting of the Zygons / Wooden Heart) are due to be released by BBC Worldwide in July.

Details of the final Short Trips anthology of 2007 have now been released. The Ghosts of Christmas will be released in December and is to be edited by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright.

In advance of the release of the delayed Short Trips: Destination Prague, Big Finish have made Robert Hood's Sixth Doctor and Peri story Gold and Black Ooze available to download from their website.

The latest issue of sci-fi magazine SFX (Special Collection #28, out now!) is 100% devoted to Doctor Who and its modern-day spin-off programmes. And as a bonus, each issue is accompanied by a free Doctor Who novelisation — all of them out-of-print copies from Target Books which have presumably been cluttering up a corner of a warehouse for some considerable time. Fifteen different titles are available.

First Doctor (William Hartnell)
Marco Polo / Galaxy Four / Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet

Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton)
Doctor Who and the Cybermen

Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee)
Doctor Who and the Mutants / Doctor Who and the Green Death

Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker)
Doctor Who Classics: The Seeds of Doom and The Deadly Assassin / Doctor Who and the Power of Kroll / Doctor Who and the Armageddon Factor

Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison)
Castrovalva / Time-Flight

Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker)
The Twin Dilemma

Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy)
Delta and the Bannermen / The Greatest Show in the Galaxy / The Curse of Fenric.

Child of Time, the final book in the Time Hunter spin-off series, has now been scheduled for release in August. According to the cover it has been co-authored by David J Howe.

Also coming from David J Howe and Telos is the recently announced The Target Book. Based on his exhaustive history of the Doctor Who novelisations released by Target Books, which was originally published in Doctor Who Magazine around seven years ago, The Target Book is released in October as a large-format paperback and will be in full colour throughout. At only £19.99 this will undoubtedly be on many older Doctor Who fans' Christmas lists in 2007.

Hot on the heels of last months' speculation about the future of the Torchwood books, Doctor Who supremo Russell T Davies gave an interview for The Sunday Telegraph's Seven Magazine on 11/03/07 in which it was revealed that a further eight titles will be released to accompany Season Two of the television series in 2008. This has yet to be officially confirmed by BBC Books, however.

The same interview also revealed that the final week of 2006 saw nine books based on Doctor Who and Torchwood in the top fifty hardback chart, with the following weeks' seeing all three Torchwood novels in the top five.

Even more astonishing is the news that BBC Books is apparently now the tenth largest publisher of fiction in the UK, despite their output consisting solely of Doctor Who and Torchwood books!

All reports in this section refer to US releases.

• Kolchak: The Night Stalker
  After releasing their second Kolchak anthology in January, Moonstone Books are now moving into full-length novels. Written by CJ Henderson, Kolchak the Night Stalker: A Black & Evil Truth is due to be released in both paperback and limited edition hardback in late May.
• Supernatural
  Unsurprisingly, the popular Supernatural has finally started to spawn spin-off merchandise including a series guide and, from August, a series of tie-in novels. Published by HarperEntertainment, the first title to be released will be Nevermore from tie-in specialist Keith RA DeCandido. Witch's Canyon by Jeff Mariotte will then follow in November.
• V
  Despite the script still being in development with Warner Bros, Kenneth Johnson has reportedly finished novelising the screenplay to his proposed follow-up to V, which is set some twenty years after the original invasion. V: The Second Generation is due to be published in hardback by Tor later this year.

Released this month is Made of Steel, the second Doctor Who book to be released as part of the Quick Reads initiative. Priced at just £1.99, the book is the very first story in any medium to feature new Tenth Doctor companion Martha Jones, as well as featuring the Cybermen.

The new season of Doctor Who has now been announced as starting on BBC One on Saturday 31 March, with confirmation finally coming that Paul Cornell's two-part story is indeed based on his 1995 novel Human Nature. Barring unexpected news events or schedule changes for sporting events, the two episodes will be shown in May. The individual episode titles for the story are Human Nature and The Family of Blood.

The recently announced New Series Adventure by Paul Magrs has now been retitled Sick Building.

The long-awaited non-fiction book Bernice Summerfield: The Inside Story now has a provisional publication date of October. This will coincide with the 15th anniversary of the character's first appearance in print, which occurred in Paul Cornell's Doctor Who: Love and War.

The forthcoming audio book of Slow Decay is now being read by Burn Gorman (Owen Harper in the television series) due to John Barrowman's heavy work schedule, not least on the forthcoming season of Doctor Who.

Although details of any further Torchwood novels from BBC Books have yet to be announced, the fact that two of the first three have already reached their fourth printing would suggest that sales have probably exceeded expectations by some degree.

Season Two of the television series is expected to air on BBC Two early in 2008.

Late 2006 saw rumours starting to circulate regarding the forthcoming two-part story being written by Paul Cornell for the Doctor Who television series. Although exact details have yet to be confirmed, an interview with executive producer Julie Gardner in the final issue of DreamWatch magazine (#150) would appear to confirm that the story will be based on Cornell's highly regarded Doctor Who novel Human Nature, released by Virgin Publishing in May 1995.

If true, this would mark the first time that a full-length novel based on a telefantasy series has subsequently been adapted for the series on which it was based.

Although the book is now long out of print, anyone wishing to read it would be well advised to head along to the BBC's Doctor Who website where it has been available in various formats since November 2002.

In other BBC news, a brief interview with Justin Richards in the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine (#379) has confirmed that a further three Doctor Who novels will be release by BBC Books in September 2006. All three are being written by returning Doctor Who authors, although none of them have previously worked on the New Series Adventures. The provisional titles are: Wetworld by Mark Michalowski, Forever Autumn by Mark Morris and The Wicked Bungalow by Paul Magrs.

Details of the next batch of Doctor Who short story collections from Big Finish have now been released, with the five volumes being released quarterly from March 2007.

Interestingly, the March 2008 volume, Short Trips: The Qualities of Leadership, is being edited by Keith RA DeCandido, better known for his work on various US tie-in ranges and specifically for novels and anthologies based on the various Star Trek series.

Completely under the radar of this site, Gollancz released The Hogfather: The Illustrated Screenplay in November. The book contains the scripts to both parts of the recent Sky One mini-series (broadcast in late December).

Also available from Corgi is a tie-in edition of Terry Pratchett's original novel, the front cover of which features Michelle Dockery as Death's grandaughter, Susan.

Abridged audio readings of January's three Torchwood novels are due to be released on CD by BBC Worldwide in April. John Barrowman (Captain Jack Harkness in the series) will be reading Another Life and Slow Decay, with Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper) narrating Border Princes.