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Stephen Cole, who has also published work under the pseudonyms Michael Collier,[1] Tara Samms, Andrew Miller and Paul Grice (born 1971[2]) is an author of science fiction and children's novels. He was in charge of merchandising at BBC Enterprises between 1997 and 1999, deciding which stories should be released on video. He was also range editor of BBC Past Doctor Adventures and the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures, for which he commissioned Lawrence Miles's Alien Bodies.
He wrote the script for the home video Ian Chesterton: An Introduction.
He is perhaps most famous for his book series Astrosaurs. More recently, he succeeded Charlie Higson as the author of the James Bond spin-off book series, Young Bond, on which he is credited as Steve Cole.
He also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who.
Not to be confused with the Canadian author of the same name.
Writing Credits
Novels
BBC Novelisations
- The Evil of the Daleks (with Frazer Hines and Mike Tucker)
BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures
- Longest Day (as Michael Collier)
- The Taint (as Michael Collier)
- Parallel 59 (with Natalie Dallaire)
- The Ancestor Cell (with Peter Anghelides)
- Vanishing Point
- Timeless
- To the Slaughter
BBC Past Doctor Adventures
BBC New Series Adventures
- The Monsters Inside
- The Feast of the Drowned
- The Art of Destruction
- Sting of the Zygons
- Combat Magicks
- At Childhood's End (with Sophie Aldred and Mike Tucker)
The Darksmith Legacy
Time Lord Victorious
Bernice Summerfield novels
Short Stories
Doctor Who Files
Classified! A Confidential 3-D Dossier
- + + Classified + + Special Intelligence File Alpha Zero
- + + Classified + + Subject for Observation: The Doctor
- + + Classified + + Subject for Observation: Rose Tyler
- Case File A01
- Case File A02
- Case File A03
- Case File A04
- Case File A05
- Case File A06
- Case File A07
- Case File A08
- Case File A09
- Case File A10
- Case File A11
- Case File A12
- Case File A13
- Memorandum
The Target Storybook
Star Tales
Iris Wildthyme
- Beguine (in Wildthyme on Top)
- Only Living Girls (in Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus)
- The Heart Pendulums (in Wild Thymes on the 22)
Doctor Who annual
- [[Under Control (short story)|Under Control]
Audio
BBC New Series Adventures
Doctor Who Main Range
- The Land of the Dead
- The Apocalypse Element
- The Wormery (with Paul Magrs)
- Fitz's Story
- The Whispering Forest
- Kiss of Death
- Masquerade
- Alien Heart
Gallifrey
Bernice Summerfield
- Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Plague Herds of Excelis
- Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Dance of the Dead
- Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Relics of Jegg-Sau
- Many Happy Returns
Iris Wildthyme
Audiobooks
The Sarah Jane Adventures
Comics
Doctor Who: Battles in Time
- Growing Terror
- Hyperstar Rising
- Death Race Five Billion
- The Macrobe Menace
- The Hunt of Doom
- Reunion of Fear
- Wrath of the Warrior
- The Screaming Prison
- Force and Fury
- Warriors' Revenge
- Head Start
- The Millennium Blag
- Second Wave
- Operation Lock-up
- Crime After Crime
- Dusty Death
- Cold Assassin
- Designs of the Dust
- A Suitable Showdown
- Carnage Zoo
- Flight and Fury
- The Living Ghosts
- Extermination of the Daleks
- The House at the End of the World
- The End
Doctor Who annual
Writing Credits as Tara Samms
Novels
Telos Doctor Who novellas
Short Stories
Short Trips
- Glass (in Short Trips)
- Totem (in More Short Trips)
- Monsters (in Short Trips and Side Steps)
- Distance (in Short Trips: Companions)
- Face-Painter (in Short Trips: A Universe of Terrors)
- Mordieu (in Short Trips: The Muses)
- Separation (in Short Trips: 2040)
- Evergreen (in Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury)
- Angel (in Short Trips: Seven Deadly Sins)
Writing Credits as Michael Collier
Novels
BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures
Audio
Out of the Darkness
Post-production credits
Audio
Doctor Who Main Range
- The Wormery - music (with Jason Loborik)
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ @SteveColeBooks. Twitter (5 October 2016). Retrieved on 5 October 2016. “BBC Books boss insisted I had to write under pseudonym; Mike lent his name, old uni friend, now journo & novelist in Latvia”
- ↑ People Pill