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Revision as of 20:36, 9 April 2015
Una McCormack is an English writer whose first piece of Doctor Who fiction, A Time & a Place, was published in Doctor Who Magazine issue #197 in 1993.
Writing for the DWU
After A Time & a Place, part of the Brief Encounter series, her next short story would not be published until some 15 years later in 2008; The Slave War in the Short Trips anthology The Quality of Leadership. She subsequently wrote two Eleventh Doctor novels The King's Dragon and The Way Through the Woods to tie in with the shows fifth and sixth series, respectively.
McCormack has also contributed to various reference books, including Impossible Worlds, Impossible things, which she co-edited, and the Hugo Award nominated Chicks Unravel Time. More recently she has also written a number of audio adventures.
Other writing
McCormack has also written for other science fiction franchises, most notably Star Trek. Having gained popularity writing online fan-fiction, she has since had a short story and six novels published. Her 2013 novel The Crimson Shadow is also a New York Times best-seller.
She has also written for the Big Finish Blake's 7 audio adventures, as well as an essay on the original TV series in British Science Fiction Television: A Hitchhiker’s Guide. A number of her original science fiction short stories have also been published in various anthologies.
Published DWU works
| Medium | Series/Collection | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Audio | Breaking Bubbles and Other Stories | An Eye For Murder |
| Gallifrey | Evolution | |
| The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield | Good Night, Sweet Ladies | |
| Prose | BBC New Series Adventures | The King's Dragon |
| The Way Through the Woods | ||
| Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership | The Slave War | |
| Brief Encounter | A Time & a Place | |
| Reference | Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things: Cultural Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures | Fifty Not Out – The Doctor’s Enduring Appeal |
| The Unsilent Library: Essays on the Russell T. Davies Era of the new Doctor Who | He’s Not the Messiah: undermining political and religious authority in new Doctor Who | |
| Chicks Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor Who | No Competition | |
| Companion Piece: Women Celebrate the Humans, Aliens and Tin Dogs of Doctor Who | Amy‘s Choice: Doctor Who Companions and the Nightmare of Domesticity |
