Best Seller (short story)

Best Seller was the first short story in the Short Trips anthology Short Trips: Monsters. It was written by Ian Mond and Danny Oz. It featured the Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard.

Summary
A new, best-selling sci-fi novel, The Darvias Saga, released in a very limited edition, 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.

Communication technology

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

Cultural references from the real world

 * Gary Oldman and Madonna are mentioned as actors who 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