non tie-ins

The Human Frontier is Big Finish’s most recent “original” production, a gritty science-fiction from the pen of Nick Briggs, a man who has made gritty science-fiction his speciality in the Doctor Who universe in stories like Sword of Orion, Embrace…

Doctor Who’s River Song is a character I honestly wasn’t much into on television; I picked up her first Big Finish box set for Paul McGann, and ended up following the character through (as of this writing) seven box sets….

Blind Terror: The Gods of Frost is the latest Big Finish Original, yet another amazing convocation of Big Finish talent. Eve Myles stars in a story she asked be made — after enjoying Guy Adams’s horror-themed Torchwood scripts, she wanted…

Jeremiah Bourne in Time is another “Big Finish Original”, celebrating 20 years of Big Finish Productions with an original (i.e. non-tie-in) audio story. Jeremiah Bourne in Time comes from the pen of Nigel Planer, better known to me as an…

Big Finish are celebrating their twentieth anniversary (yikes!) with a new line of original, download-only stories. Though these stories don’t tie into any pre-existing properties, they are stacked with familiar Big Finish talent breaking out into new formats. The first…

Look, man, I don’t know either. Yes, Big Finish has decided to make an ongoing series of mysteries starring Samuel Barnett (TV’s second Dirk Gently) as the Roman lawyer Cicero. Quite why, other than that producer Scott Handcock has got…

MI-13 is back! 2013 was a dark and desolate year — Bafflegab took a whole year off from making releases of The Scarifyers, but thankfully the dark days of winter are over, and here we have 2014’s The King of…

Vince Cosmos: Glam Rock Detective is not the story I imagined. Brought to you by Paul Magrs, the mind behind Horror of Glam Rock, and Bafflegab Productions, the team behind The Scarifyers, I was expecting something light and goofy, filled…

The last few instalments of The Scarifyers have seen some necessary transitioning, as Inspector Lionheart (played by the dear late Nicholas Courtney) had to be written out and replaced by Sergeant Crow. But with The Thirteen Hallows, we have a…

With The Horror of Loch Ness, Cosmic Hobo team Simon Barnard and Paul Morris not only take MI-13 up to Scotland, they also take them into uncharted territory: the first regular adventure for the new team of Sergeant Crow and…

Since 2007, Nicholas “Brigadier” Courtney and Terry “Davros” Molloy have played Inspector Lionheart and Professor Dunning in the ongoing Scarifyers series of audio dramas. After the unfortunate death of Nicholas Courtney, it was thankfully decided to not end The Scarifyers,…

“Orders must be obeyed without question at all times.” Until my editor asked me if I was interested in reviewing it, I had never heard of Journey into Space. But looking it up revealed that it was a BBC radio…

No Small Bills, Aaron Rosenberg‘s latest original novel, is a humorous science-fiction novel in the tradition of Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. One would think that having one’s head replaced with a duck’s by aliens would be the…

With Guilt in Innocence Keith R.A. DeCandido becomes the third author to add his voice to the ever-growing original universe of The Scattered Earth. The Olodumare Hegemony is ruled by Oba Isembi, who uses brainwashed telepaths, the Ori-Inu, to do…

In Super City Police Department: The Case of the Claw, the first entry in an original series by tie-in veteran Keith R.A. DeCandido, we follow the “normal” officers of the Super City Police Department in their efforts to defend law and…