Una McCormack
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After A Time & a Place, part of the Brief Encounter series, her next short story would not be published until some 15 years later in 2008; The Slave War in the Short Trips anthology The Quality of Leadership.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, and she recently co-wrote the Weird Space novel The Baba Yaga.
Published DWU works
Audio
Big Finish Doctor Who main range
Gallifrey
The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield
Prose
BBC New Series Adventures
Short Trips
Brief Encounter
The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who
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
