By 2005, A.O. Osgood had written Rubber-Soled Shoes and Silver-Tipped Bullets – A Life in Supplies, which was in the "Historical and Reminiscent" genre and was publicised on the UNIT website. (PROSE: UNIT Publications)
Behind the scenes[]
It is fairly plausble, though by no means certain, that A.O. Osgood was originally intended to be Osgood, a UNIT soldier who appeared in The Dæmons [+]Guy Leopold, Doctor Who season 8 (BBC1, 1971)., and whose first name was never mentioned on television. His first name was, however, given as "Tom" in 1996's The Eye of the Giant [+]Christopher Bulis, Virgin Missing Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996)., a novel in the Virgin New Adventures line, and the debuts of Frank Osgood and Petronella Osgood would later show the Osgoods to be an "old UNIT family", raising the possibility of A.O. being a different character altogether. When asked, James Goss, the editor of the U.N.I.T. website, made no definitive statement, saying they were "probably" the same character.[1]