Blue Box (book)

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Blue Box was a book by investigative journalist Chick Peters, based on his experiences with the Sixth Doctor, the Eridani and the Savant.

It made several changes to the names of those events' participants: Peri Brown was referred to as "Peri Smith", a hacker who found two parts of the Eridani device was named "Sarah Swan", and the agency that Sarah Swan worked at was given the acronym "TLA". In addition, due to Peri and the Doctor concealing some details of the truth from Chick Peters, as well as his general disbelief regarding all things extraterrestrial, the TARDIS was never named, and was consistently described as the Doctor and Peri's boat.

In a footnote, Peters described the book as "an American story for British readers [written by] an Australian", and remarked that he "pit[ied] the poor copy editor who ha[d] to cope with [his] spelling".

Despite the book being written from Chick's perspective, it included descriptions of events that he hadn't been present for. Its narrative was based on interviews and reconstructions in addition to Chick's own witnessing of events. In the "Acknowledgements" section, he thanked Peri, the Doctor and Ian Mond for being his interview subjects. (PROSE: Blue Box ^[+]Loading...["Blue Box (novel)"])

Behind the scenes

The book was part of the framing device of the novel Blue Box ^[+]Loading...["Blue Box (novel)"]; Chick Peters was credited in the "About the author" section of the novel alongside the real-world author, Kate Orman, the "Acknowledgements" section contained thanks from both, and the publisher's summary on the back cover was written as if it was the summary of the in-universe book.

Like the in-universe author, Kate Orman is Australian; she is the first Australian author to write for a Doctor Who novel range.