New Series Books

The full-sized covers for all three Ninth Doctor and Rose books being released by BBC Books in May, as posted on amazon.co.uk: The Monsters Inside by Stephen Cole, Winner Takes All by Jacqueline Rayner, and The Clockwise Man by Justin Richards. These are the final versions of the covers, and all three are due out May 19. (This replaces our earlier story from February 8 with the cover thumbnails only as posted on play.com.) As before, the cover blurbs have been on the Releases page for a while. Click each for a larger version.

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Amazon.co.uk has details of the next set of three Doctor Who new series novels being released by BBC Books, mentioned in the last issue of DWM. The novels include The Deviant Strain by Justin Richards, Only Human by Gareth Roberts and The Stealers of Dreams by Steve Lyons. All three books will be released in hardcover and are due out simultaneously on September 5. Amazon has a quick summary of one of the novels, Richards' "The Deviant Strain," as follows: "The Novrosk Peninsula: the Soviet naval base has been abandoned, the nuclear submarines are rusting and rotting. Cold, isolated, forgotten. Until the Russian Special Forces arrive and discover that the Doctor and his companions are here too. But there is something else in Novrosk. Something that predates everything else, even the stone circle on the cliff top. Something that is at last waking, hunting, killing. Can the Doctor and his friends stay alive long enough to learn the truth? With time running out, they must discover who is really responsible for the Deviant Strain Featuring the Doctor as played by Christopher Eccleston, together with Rose and Captain Jack as played by Billie Piper and John Barrowman in the hit series from BBC Television."

To add to those, BBC Books will release Doctor Who: The Shooting Scripts on October 31. Listed as being written by Russell T Davies, it's slightly unclear whether this will include all thirteen episodes of the first season, or just the episodes Russel T  Davies wrote himself (which is eight out of the thirteen.)

BBC to discontinue classic series books

 "With Doctor Who set to return to our television screens, bigger and better than ever before, the interest in Doctor Who fiction - from readers and from prospective writers - is already increasing enormously," says the statement. "At the same time, we are waiting to evaluate the impact of the new series on our continuing lines of Doctor Who books. That means that at the moment - without the help of a real TARDIS - we do not yet know what our requirements for Doctor Who novels will be for 2006 and beyond. With this in mind, it simply isn't fair for us to try to evaluate proposals against criteria that are bound to change. So, for the time being, we have decided it is not possible for us to accept Doctor Who novel proposals for consideration."