Stephen Cole

Stephen Cole
Other names:	Steve Cole, Michael Collier, Tara Samms, Paul Grice
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Writer
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	1998-2012, 2014, 2017-present
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Young James Bond, Z. Rex, The Slime Squad, Astrosuars, Cows in Action
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Stephen Cole (who has also published work under the pseudonyms Michael Collier 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.

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

• The Shadow in the Glass (with Justin Richards)
• Ten Little Aliens

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

• The Vampire of Paris

Big Finish Bernice Summerfield novels

• The Gods of the Underworld

Short stories

Iris Wildthyme

• Beguine (in Wildthyme on Top)
• Only Living Girls (in Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus)

Doctor Who Files

• The Hero Factor
• The Final Darkness

Audio

BBC New Series Adventures

• The Ring of Steel

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

Short Trips

• Vigil (as Michael Collier)

Gallifrey

• Square One
• Spirit
• Fractures

Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series

• The Plague Herds of Excelis
• The Dance of the Dead
• The Relics of Jegg-Sau
• Many Happy Returns

Big Finish Iris Wildthyme series

• The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme

The Sarah Jane Adventures audio books

• The Glittering Storm
• The Ghost House

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

• Frayed

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

• Longest Day
• The Taint

Audios

• Vigil

 External links

• BBC.co.uk website interview with Stephen Cole, 01 January 2004 
• Outpost Gallifrey - Interview: Stephen Cole (archived)