Cole, Stephen
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1971- ) UK editor and author, who has also written as by Tara Samms, and who as Commissioning Editor, Sci-Fi Titles for BBC Worldwide was responsible for the Doctor Who list in the late 1990s; his own contributions to that list began with anthologies like Doctor Who: Side Trips (anth 1998); he later wrote several of the fiction titles, sometimes in collaboration, beginning with Doctor Who: Parallel 59 (2000) with Natalie Dallaire. He is thought to be safe hands with this material, though the Doctor Who tie-ins during this period did not possess the revisionist creative heat they had had in the early 1990s. His later The Wereling sequence is Young Adult horror; the Thieves sequence beginning with Thieves Like Us (2006) is closer to full sf, placing a boy with perhaps supernatural powers of cognition in an essentially mundane setting. His Astrosaurs sequence for younger children is not listed below. [JC]
Stephen Cole
born Bedfordshire: 1971
works
series
Doctor Who
- Doctor Who: Parallel 59 (London: BBC Books, 2000) with Natalie Dallaire [tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: New Adventures: pb/blacksheep]
- Doctor Who: The Ancestor Cell (London: BBC Books, 2000) with Peter Anghelides [tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: New Adventures: pb/blacksheep]
- Doctor Who: The Shadow in the Glass (London: BBC Books, 2000) with Justin Richards [tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: Past Doctors: pb/blacksheep]
- Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Gods of the Underworld (London: Big Finish Productions, 2001) [tie: other titles in this series are audiobooks and are not listed here: Doctor Who: Bernice Summerfield: pb/Carolyn Edwards]
- Doctor Who: Vanishing Point (London: BBC Books, 2001) [tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: New Adventures: pb/blacksheep]
- Doctor Who: Ten Little Aliens (London: BBC Books, 2002) [tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: Past Doctors: pb/blacksheep & Mike Tucker]
- Doctor Who Novellas: Frayed (Tolworth, Surrey: Telos, 2003) as by Tara Samms [tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who Novellas: hb/nonpictorial]
- Doctor Who: Timeless (London: BBC Books, 2003) [tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: New Adventures: pb/blacksheep]
- Doctor Who: To the Slaughter (London: BBC Books, 2005) [tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: pb/]
- Doctor Who: Sting of the Zygons (London: BBC Books, 2005) [tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: hb/]
- Doctor Who: The Monsters Inside (London: BBC Books, 2005) [tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: hb/Henry Steadman]
- Doctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned (London: BBC Books, 2006) [tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: hb/Henry Steadman]
- Doctor Who: The Art of Destruction (London: BBC Books, 2006) [tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: hb/]
- Combat Magicks (London: BBC Books, 2018) [tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: hb/]
- The Knight, The Fool and The Dead (London: BBC Books, 2020) [tie to Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious: hb/]
The Wereling
- The Wereling: Wounded (London: Bloomsbury, 2003) [The Wereling: pb/]
- The Wereling: Prey (London: Bloomsbury, 2004) [The Wereling: pb/Ken de Silva]
- The Wereling: Resurrection (London: Bloomsbury, 2004) [The Wereling: pb/Ken de Silva]
Thieves
- Thieves Like Us (London: Bloomsbury, 2006) [Thieves: pb/Ian Butterworth]
- The Aztec Code (London: Bloomsbury, 2007) [Thieves: pb/]
- Thieves Till We Die (New York: Bloomsbury, 2007) [vt of the above: Thieves: pb/Ian Keltie]
- The Bloodline Cipher (London: Bloomsbury, 2008) [Thieves: pb/]
works as editor
Doctor Who
- Doctor Who: Short Trips (London: BBC Books, 1998) [anth: tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: pb/blacksheep]
- Doctor Who: More Short Trips (London: BBC Books, 1999) [anth: tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: pb/blacksheep]
- Doctor Who: Short Trips and Side Steps (London: BBC Books, 2000) with Jacqueline Rayner [anth: tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: pb/blacksheep]
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