Telos Doctor Who novella

The Telos Doctor Who novellas were a series of shorter Doctor Who adventures published by Telos Publishing between 2001 and 2004. The series was licensed by the BBC, even though BBC Books was at the time also publishing two lines of Doctor Who fiction: the Eighth Doctor Adventures and the Past Doctor Adventures.

Each novella was published in two formats: standard hardback and deluxe hardback. The BBC's licence specifically allowed only hardback releases, although following further negotiations two of the novellas were reprinted in trade paperback (as opposed to the standard paperback format used by BBC Books). Deluxe editions were also published, were often autographed by the author and/or an actor from the TV series; the deluxe edition of Nightdreamers was signed by the author, the illustrator, and actress Katy Manning, who wrote the foreword and whose character Jo Grant appears in the book.

Blum and Orman's novella Fallen Gods won the prestigious Aurealis Award for best Australian science fiction book.

Characters from the novella The Cabinet of Light were spun off into the Time Hunter series of novellas by Telos.

Each of the first eight incarnations of the Doctor were featured in at least one release, with two releases - The Cabinet of Light and The Dalek Factor - featuring unspecified incarnations of the Doctor.

The series was discontinued in 2004 as BBC Books prepared to launch a new series of books tying in with the series revival. In 2006, BBC Books launched Quick Reads, a new series of novella-length adventures.

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Title	Author	Doctor	Companion(s)	Featuring	Published
Time and Relative	Kim Newman	1st	Susan	Ian, Barbara	23 November 2001
Citadel of Dreams	Dave Stone	7th	Ace		28 March 2002
Nightdreamers	Tom Arden	3rd	Jo		15 May 2002
Ghost Ship	Keith Topping	4th			22 August 2002
Foreign Devils	Andrew Cartmel	2nd	Jamie, Zoe	Thomas Carnacki	23 November 2002
Rip Tide	Louise Cooper	8th			31 January 2003
Wonderland	Mark Chadbourn	2nd	Ben, Polly	Fourth Doctor	24 April 2003
Shell Shock	Simon A. Forward	6th	Peri		19 May 2003
The Cabinet of Light	Daniel O'Mahony	Unspecified Doctor		Honoré, Emily, Mestizer	10 July 2003
Fallen Gods	Jonathan Blum, Kate Orman	8th			25 September 2003
Frayed	Tara Samms	1st	Susan		20 November 2003
The Eye of the Tyger	Paul McAuley	8th			20 November 2003
Companion Piece	Robert Perry, Mike Tucker	7th	Cat		18 December 2003
Blood and Hope	Iain McLaughlin	5th	Peri, Erimem		19 February 2004
The Dalek Factor	Simon Clark	Unspecified Doctor		Daleks	18 March 2004