Stephen Cole

Stephen Cole
Other names:	Steve Cole, Michael Collier, Tara Samms, Paul Grice
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Writer
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	1998-2012, 2014, 2017-present
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Young James Bond, Z. Rex, The Slime Squad, Astrosuars, Cows in Action, Blake's 7
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Stephen Cole, who has also published work under the pseudonyms Michael Collier, Tara Samms, Andrew Miller and Paul Grice (born 1971) 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

• The Shadow in the Glass (with Justin Richards)
• Ten Little Aliens

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

• The Vampire of Paris

Time Lord Victorious

• The Knight, The Fool and The Dead

Bernice Summerfield novels

• The Gods of the Underworld

Short Stories

Doctor Who Files

• The Hero Factor
• The Final Darkness

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

• We Can't Stop What's Coming

Star Tales

• Who-Dini?

Ten Days of Christmas

• Under Control
• Saviour
• Not a Creature Was Stirring
• Life in Oils
• The Christmas Blessing
• The Eternal Present
• Gifts from Afar
• The Big Store
• Dark Waters
• Into Control

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)

The Adventures Before

• The Roots of Evil

Audio

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

• Square One
• Spirit
• Fractures

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

• The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme

Audiobooks

BBC New Series Adventures

• The Ring of Steel

The Sarah Jane Adventures

• The Glittering Storm
• The Ghost House

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

• Into Control

Writing Credits as Tara Samms

Novels

Telos Doctor Who novellas

• Frayed

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

• Longest Day
• The Taint

Audio

Out of the Darkness

• Vigil

Post-production credits

Audio

Doctor Who Main Range

• The Wormery - music (with Jason Loborik)

 External links

• BBC.co.uk website interview with Stephen Cole, 01 January 2004 
• Outpost Gallifrey - Interview: Stephen Cole (archived)