And they pick different sides, so spend the book fighting each other.' He also said he 'was never happy with Cold Fusion. And that was the idea of the book: two Doctors show up and they look at a situation like Yugoslavia/Syria and they, completely independently, perfectly sensibly, pick a side to support. Parkin has said he was writing a book about the Yugoslav Wars, that is a conflict 'where horrible things are happening, and clearly there's a case for international intervention, but … well, there's no clear good guys and bad guys.

In an interview for the BBC, in discussing Cold Fusion, Parkin described the character of Adric as 'hopeless with Davison'. The story deliberately contrasts the characterisation of the Fifth Doctor and of the Seventh Doctor in the Virgin New Adventures.

It was the only one of the Virgin Doctor Who novels to feature more than one Doctor. Also appearing is the Seventh Doctor, with Chris and Roz, from between the Virgin New Adventures novels Return of the Living Dad and The Death of Art.

It features the Fifth Doctor, with Adric, Nyssa, and Tegan, immediately after Castrovalva. For the rest, see the recent releases on the ‘ Out Now‘ page, and my blog for news about upcoming projects.Cold Fusion is an original novel written by Lance Parkin and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. For fans of long and unwieldy lists, there’s a year-by-year timeline of everything here. That breaks down pretty evenly between fiction and non-fiction. I’ve had about thirty books published – the exact number varies depending on how you count new editions, and how you count a book that was co-written. Dive in and have fun who doesn’t wonder about utopian warmongering? The book is nominally part of the Faction Paradox universe, but if you don’t know the series, no prior knowledge is necessary. I’ve a soft spot for Warlords of Utopia, a science fiction novel about every parallel universe where Rome never fell going to war with every parallel universe where Hitler won. I think, on balance, my favourite ‘classic’ Doctor Who novel, at least to recommend to a relatively casual reader, is Father Time. If you’re a fan of the new series, I’m proud of my tenth Doctor novel The Eyeless. That’s one where the many strands of my writing career come together, biography, science fiction, some pretty hefty research and the narrative history of a genre as a whole.įor Doctor Who … well, the increasingly insane Ahistory provides surprising details that even the hardest of the hardcore will appreciate. Of course, the author is generally a terrible judge of that … but for me, my favourite is almost certainly the Alan Moore biography, Magic Words. Authors are often asked which of their books would be the best place to start.

Doctor Who by Lance Parkin