Time Hunter - Novellas

Novellas

The series began with The Winning Side by Lance Parkin, following BBC Worldwide's decision not to renew Telos's licence for publishing novellas based on the Doctor Who television series.

The eleven novellas were published on an irregular schedule. Following the publication of this eleventh novella, Telos have announced that the range will temporarily end due to poor sales. Child of Time reveals much of the backstory of the series.

The covers of the standard edition Time Hunter novellas each feature a circle motif containing the year in which the majority of the action of the story takes place.

Title Author Published "Year"
The Winning Side Lance Parkin November 2003 1984
The Tunnel at the End of the Light Stefan Petrucha March 2004 1950
The Clockwork Woman Claire Bott June 2004 1805
Kitsune John Paul Catton October 2004 2020
The Severed Man George Mann December 2004 1892
Echoes Iain McLaughlin and Claire Bartlett April 2005 1995
Peculiar Lives Philip Purser-Hallard July 2005 1950
Deus Le Volt Jon de Burgh Miller January 2006 1098
The Albino's Dancer Dale Smith June 2006 1951
The Sideways Door R.J. Carter and Troy Riser August 2006 1951
Child of Time George Mann and David J Howe August 2007 2586

Although not an officially licensed spin-off of Doctor Who, familiar characters and concepts from the programme have featured in the novellas. Aside from Honoré and Emily, the Fendahl appears in Deus Le Volt, and a Daemon appears in Child of Time. Concepts from the Time Hunter series also feature in the Doctor Who spin-off DVD drama Daemos Rising written by David J. Howe, although neither of the main characters from the book series appear in the DVD.

A character appearing very briefly in The Albino's Dancer may be an unnamed Ninth Doctor, although whether this is true or not is left open to the reader's interpretation. The character "Dr Smith" who appears in Child of Time appears to be the incarnation of the Doctor first seen in The Cabinet of Light, although his identity with Doctor Who's Doctor is now less clear.

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