Best Seller (short story)

Summary
A new best selling sci-fi novel; The Darvias Saga, released in very limited quantities, is causing riots at bookshops. The Doctor investigates the publishers while Charley teams up with the Campaign for Real Literature, who have decided the author must be assassinated.

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Charley Pollard
 * Bruce Gillespie
 * Henry
 * Mitch
 * Nathaniel Clamp
 * Mr Tluss
 * Mr Marg

Books

 * Chulka Biblio Tablets are the publisher of the Darvias Saga.

Communications technology

 * Charley owns a mobile phone.
 * Mr Tluss uses N-Dimension nano-cameras so that his people can watch what is happening to the people of Earth.

Cultural references

 * Gary Oldman and Madonna are mentioned as actors that could play roles in a Darvias Saga movie.

Foods and beverages

 * The Doctor drinks Roobios tea and eats a plate of cookies.
 * Charley eats a risotto for the first time.

Individuals

 * Charley feels uncomfortable wearing clothes that show more flesh than she is used to.
 * Mr Tluss and his colleagues created chaos on Kelpa by introducing a wooden toy and on Zassaph with a ceremonial headdress.

Locations

 * Brunswick Street Bookstore is a bookshop in New York.

TARDIS

 * The Doctor enters the TARDIS into a temporal orbit to give himself time to read and transcribe The Darvias Saga.

Continuity
to be added

Timeline

 * Best Seller occurs after ST: Repercussions...
 * Best Seller occurs before BFA: The Stones of Venice