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| '''Lawrence Miles''' wrote several ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and [[Bernice Summerfield New Adventures]] novels.
| | A fat ugly autistic nerd who will kill himself soon, but only after raping his Bagpuss sextoy one last time. |
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| He created the [[Faction Paradox]] and the [[The War|Future War]] that the [[Time Lord]]s were ''going'' to have. He said when he started the war in ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'', it was "never supposed to be a big murder-mystery type of thing, with this huge question hovering over it", and was going to reveal the identity of [[the Enemy]] in his next book after ''Bodies'', which [[Stephen Cole]] stopped him from doing.<ref name="Miles Interview"> [http://web.archive.org/web/20050301095733/http:/planeteleven.co.uk/features/lmia/lastever.php Lawrence Miles : The Last Ever Interview 28th May 2000] </ref>
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| He is known among some fan circles {{which}} as "Mad Larry" for his often controversial ideas and comments. He frequently posts such views (often in essay form) of the most recent episodes of the new series on [http://beasthouse-lm2.blogspot.com/ The Beasthouse] (Lawrence Miles' blog).
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| Miles is also known for attempting to set the [[BBC Books]] ''Doctor Who'' novels apart from the [[Virgin Publishing|Virgin]] novels, claiming the BBC Books novels were "weak when they're pretending to be the Virgin books", specifically pointing out ''[[Vampire Science (novel)|Vampire Science]]'' as suffering from this.<ref name="Miles Interview" />
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| Miles has particular views and understandings {{what?}} of ''Doctor Who'', as shown in his ''[[About Time]]'' series. {{which}}
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| He is very passionate about certain elements of ''Doctor Who'', calling Anji Kapoor someone who would have been treated "as a piece of self-obsessed parasitic vermin" because of her job in the City of London in the [[Virgin New Adventures]], explaining it wasn't the job itself but that she was proud of it; something he considered so "mean-spirited and trivial".<ref name="Outpost Miles Interview"> [http://web.archive.org/web/20080509161052/http://www.gallifreyone.com/interview.php?id=miles Archive of Outpost Gallifrey - Lawrence Miles Interview] </ref>
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| In a 2000 interview he said he didn't like [[Lance Parkin]]'s work, ''but'' he was one of the writers ''still'' talking to him.<ref name="Miles Interview" />
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| He called [[Gary Russell]]'s work "crap", saying he wrote the lowest-rated ''Doctor Who'' book "on the rankings chart" at the time of the interview, ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]''. He also disagreed with Russell "taking over as much as fandom as possible", a fandom which according to Miles was gaining younger fans that "actually wants to go somewhere" at the time, but also one which "the Gary Mafia at [[Doctor Who Magazine|DWM]] seem[ed] to be doing everything it [could] to make sure it all [got] fucked up".<ref name="Miles Interview" />
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| Miles, by his own admission, had "slagged off" BBC Books novels he hadn't written which had used Faction Paradox.<ref name="Outpost Miles Interview" />
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| Miles considered [[Roz Forrester]] a "genuine character in a way that [[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice]] and Anji aren't" because "apart from her overall grumpiness she had nothing in common with the people who wrote her or the people who read about her". He also mentioned that her background was so apart from that of the readers that her writers had to try "bloody hard" to make her understandable."<ref name="Outpost Miles Interview" />
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| Miles is noted for creating [[Sabbath]] (another recurring concept/villain) in the Eighth Doctor Adventures. He said that Justin Richards wanted Sabbath as a recurring character from the synopsis alone, at which point Miles didn't even know he was going to be like.<ref name="Outpost Miles Interview" />
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| == Bibliography ==
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| === ''Doctor Who'' ===
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| ==== Virgin New Adventures ====
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| * ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet]]''
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| ==== BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures ====
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| * ''[[Alien Bodies]]''
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| * ''[[Interference - Book One|Interference - Book One: Shock Tactic]]''
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| * ''[[Interference - Book Two|Interference - Book Two: The Hour of the Geek]]''
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| * ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]''
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| === Bernice Summerfield ===
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| ==== Prose ====
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| * ''[[Down]]''
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| * ''[[Dead Romance]]''
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| ==== Audio ====
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| * ''[[The Adolescence of Time]]''
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| === Reference books ===
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| * ''[[About Time 1]]''
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| * ''[[About Time 2]]''
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| * ''[[About Time 3]]''
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| * ''[[About Time 4]]''
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| * ''[[About Time 5]]''
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| == Footnotes ==
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| {{reflist}}
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| == External links ==
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| * [http://www.beasthouse.co.uk/ Lawrence Miles' website]
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| * [http://beasthouse-lm.blogspot.com/ Lawrence Miles' blog]
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| * [http://beasthouse-lm2.blogspot.com/ Lawrence Miles' ''Doctor Who'' thing (blog)]
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| * [http://web.archive.org/web/20030204002644/http://www.menace.ndo.co.uk/loz/inter/INTER00.TXT The Potential Last Ever Doctor Who Interview with Lawrence Miles]
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| * [http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2004/01/01/13690.shtml BBC website interview with Lawrence Miles]
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