Paul Cornell
Paul Cornell wrote several Virgin New Adventures and edited several Bernice Summerfield anthologies for Big Finish Productions.
He co-authored The Avengers Programme Guide.
Paul Cornell was responsible for several additions to the Doctor Who universe. He created Bernice Summerfield and Wolsey the cat. "A friend of mine has a cat called Wolsey, and I wanted there to be a cat in the TARDIS, and I put it to Peter Darvill-Evans and Co. And they said No no no. And then a few nights later at a nice drinking session Rebecca said, 'Thish cat Poll, Thish cat Wolsey, we'll av im we'll av im'." [1]
He also wrote two televised stories the first being Father's Day for the 2005 series of Doctor Who, and adapted his novel Human Nature into the two-part Human Nature/The Family of Blood for the 2007 series being the second. Both were nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form, although he lost out both times to fellow Who scribe Steven Moffat.
He was later nominated in the Best Graphic Story category for The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who, making him the only person to be nominated in two separate categories for his work on Doctor Who.
He also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who.
He was interviewed in issue 485 of Doctor Who Magazine for the revival series' tenth anniversary. He commented that he always thought the show would return to TV.
COMIC: The Heralds of Destruction, released from September 2016 to February 2017, was Cornell's final contribution to the Doctor Who universe, as he afterwards planned to cease writing for characters not of his own design.
Bibliography
Novels
Virgin New Adventures
Virgin Missing Adventures
BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures
Other Doctor Who novels
Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures
Short stories
Doctor Who Magazine
- An Incident Concerning the Continual Bombardment of the Phobos Colony
- Prelude Love and War
- Prelude No Future
- Prelude Human Nature
- Teenage Kicks
- Cathedral Heart
Virgin Decalogs
Doctor Who Yearbook
Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series
- The Dead Men Diaries
- The Shape of the Hole
- The Fall
- Lockdown Conversations: 1
- Lockdown Conversations: 2
- Lockdown Conversations: 3
- Lockdown Conversations: 4
- Misplaced Spring
Doctor Who annuals
The Sunday Times
The Daily Telegraph
Web short stories
Television
Doctor Who TV stories
Reference books
Audio
Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories
- The Shadow of the Scourge
- Seasons of Fear (with Caroline Symcox)
- Circular Time (with Mike Maddox)
- The 100 Days of the Doctor
- Love and War (adapted by Jacqueline Rayner)
Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series
- Oh No It Isn't! (adapted by Jacqueline Rayner)
- Closure
- Death and the Daleks
- Many Happy Returns (with Xanna Eve Chown, Stephen Cole, Scott Handcock, Stephen Fewell, Simon Guerrier, Rebecca Levene, Jacqueline Rayner, Justin Richards, Miles Richardson, Eddie Robson and Dave Stone)
Webcasts
Other
Comic stories
Doctor Who Magazine comic stories
- The Chameleon Factor
- Emperor of the Daleks!
- Time & Time Again
- Stairway to Heaven (with John Freeman)
Doctor Who Magazine special issues
Doctor Who Yearbook
BBC Writers' Comics
IDW
Titan Comics
- Four Doctors
- The Doctor Shops for Comics
- Open Mic Night
- The Meeting
- The Doctors Do... Classic Comedy
- The Doctor Shops for Angels
Titan Comics: The Third Doctor
As editor
Short Trips
Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series
Footnotes
External links
- Official website
- Official Twitter account
- Interview with Paul Cornell, 3rd March 1995, which appeared in Broadsword issue three
- Interview with Paul Cornell, 1999, which appeared in issue 3 of The Curse magazine
- Interview with Paul Cornell, 01, January 2004, on BBC - Doctor Who website
- TSV 43 Four Writers, One Discussion - Andy Lane, Paul Cornell, Steven Moffat & David Bishop By Guy Blythman
- Den of Geek - Paul Cornell interview: Captain Britain, Doctor Who, Matt Smith, Primeval and more..., Published 23rd March, 2009
