Stephen Cole (who has also published work under the pseudonyms Michael Collier[1] Tara Samms and Paul Grice) 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.
He also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who.
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Novels Edit
BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures Edit
- 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 Edit
BBC New Series Adventures Edit
- The Monsters Inside
- The Feast of the Drowned
- The Art of Destruction
- Sting of the Zygons
- Combat Magicks
The Darksmith Legacy Edit
Big Finish Bernice Summerfield novels Edit
Short stories Edit
Iris Wildthyme Edit
Doctor Who Files Edit
Audio Edit
BBC New Series Adventures Edit
Big Finish main range Edit
- 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
Short Trips Edit
- Vigil (as Michael Collier)
Gallifrey Edit
Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series Edit
Big Finish Iris Wildthyme series Edit
The Sarah Jane Adventures audio books Edit
Comic strips Edit
Doctor Who: Battles in Time Edit
- 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 Edit
Novels Edit
Telos Doctor Who novellas Edit
Short stories Edit
Short Trips Edit
- 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 Edit
Novels Edit
BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures Edit
Audios Edit
References Edit
- ↑ @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”
