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Over the last couple of days (catch up with Part 1 and Part 2), we’ve looked back at the nine-book Star Trek: A Time to… series, which bridged the gap between the movies Insurrection and Nemesis, chronicling a time of…
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It’s over a decade since the ambitious Star Trek: A Time to… series was published. The nine-book Next Generation saga set out to provide context for events that feature film Star Trek Nemesis had introduced without explanation – the marriage…
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In the early 2000s, Star Trek’s future was beginning to look uncertain. New television spinoff Enterprise was already struggling in the ratings, and when the cast of the more successful The Next Generation reunited for a fourth feature film together…
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With some major changes in the editorial department behind the official Star Trek book line, it’s probably all too easy to overlook constants in other media. Paul Simpson is one of those constants: he’s the current editor of Titan’s Star…
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Eddie Robson is one of those writers who seems to have come from nowhere. In 2006, with five Doctor Who short story credits to his name, his audio play Memory Lane was released to great acclaim. It was followed by…
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It’s a Thursday evening in November, and Unreality SF has braved the cold (and the strange drunken man on the Tube) to visit the Earls Court Doctor Who Exhibition in London. When we arrive, the venue is already filling with…
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“I am proud to say that I am a ming-mong,” Benjamin Cook grins, much to the amusement of the man sitting next to him. “I’m trying to clamp down on [that word],” interrupts Russell T Davies, “because I don’t like…
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Let’s get things clear from the start: Terri Osborne is a really talented writer. Her non-fiction is engaging, and her fiction is tautly-plotted and littered with brilliant characterisations. However, if you’re not a regular reader of Star Trek books, you…
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It’s just over ten years since Dayton Ward’s first Star Trek tale was published. Since his short story Reflections earned him a slot in the first Strange New Worlds anthology, he’s revisited the Trek universe on over 20 occasions, often…
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Communication is part of what drives society. It’s behind interpersonal relationships and interplanetary politics, it can open your mind to new ideas or close it to the world. And, conveniently enough, it’s the subject of July’s Doctor Who: Short Trips…
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In our first conversation with popular Doctor Who author Lance Parkin, we covered everything from Kylie Minogue to glowing balls of memories. But what most fans of Lance’s writing want is more information about The Eyeless, his forthcoming Tenth Doctor…
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The Dying Days was the first novel to feature the Eighth Doctor, and was the final book in Virgin’s long-running New Adventures series. The Infinity Doctors was published to mark Doctor Who’s thirty-fifth anniversary, and was unique in that it…
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In the late eighties and early nineties, a group of Doctor Who fans began producing unlicensed audio dramas based on the TV show. The Audio Visuals, as they were called, starred Nicholas Briggs (now a regular voice actor on the…
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Doctor Who is currently one of the biggest shows on TV in the UK. Last Christmas, over 14 million people tuned in, and the show has attracted high-profile stars such as Kylie Minogue and Catherine Tate. What’s particularly impressive, though,…
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If you read a wide variety of tie-in novels, you’ll probably associate David A. McIntee’s name with Doctor Who. Since his first Who book (White Darkness in Virgin Books’s New Adventures series) was released in 1993, he’s written 12 novels…
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