Stephen Cole, who has also published work under the pseudonyms Michael Collier[1] Tara Samms, Andrew Miller and Paul Grice (born 1 January 1971[2]) 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.
Works[]
Novels[]
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[]
BBC New Series Adventures[]
- The Monsters Inside
- The Feast of the Drowned
- The Art of Destruction
- Sting of the Zygons
- Combat Magicks
The Darksmith Legacy[]
Time Lord Victorious[]
Big Finish Bernice Summerfield novels[]
Short Stories[]
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)
Doctor Who Files[]
The Target Storybook[]
Star Tales[]
Audio[]
BBC New Series Adventures[]
Big Finish 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[]
Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series[]
Big Finish Iris Wildthyme series[]
The Sarah Jane Adventures audio books[]
Comic strips[]
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
Works as Tara Samms[]
Novels[]
Telos Doctor Who novellas[]
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)
As Michael Collier[]
Novels[]
BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures[]
Audios[]
References[]
- ↑ @SteveColeBooks. Twitter (5 October 2016). Retrieved on 5 October 2016. “BBC Books boss insisted I had to write under pseudonym; Mike lent his name, old uni friend, now journo & novelist in Latvia”
- ↑ People Pill
