Una McCormack (born 13 January 1972 [1]) is an English writer whose first piece of Doctor Who fiction, A Time & a Place, was published in issue #197 of the Doctor Who Magazine, in 1993.
Writing for the DWU
After A Time & a Place, part of the Brief Encounter series, her next short story would not be published until some 15 years later in 2008; The Slave War in the Short Trips anthology The Quality of Leadership. This lead to her writing for the BBC New Series Adventures book series, including two Eleventh Doctor, one Twelfth Doctor and one Thirteenth Doctor novels.
McCormack has also contributed to various reference books, including Impossible Worlds, Impossible things, which she co-edited, and the Hugo Award nominated Chicks Unravel Time. More recently she has also written a number of audio adventures for various series, including the New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield releases.
Other writing
McCormack has also written for other science fiction franchises, most notably Star Trek. Having gained popularity writing online fanfiction, she has since had a short story and several novels published. Her 2013 novel The Crimson Shadow is also a New York Times best-seller.
She has also written for the Big Finish Blake's 7 audio adventures, as well as an essay on the original TV series in British Science Fiction Television: A Hitchhiker's Guide. A number of her original science fiction short stories have also been published in various anthologies, and in 2015 she began writing for the Weird Space series, co-writing the novel The Baba Yaga.
Bibliography
Novels
BBC New Series Adventures
Short Stories
Short Trips
Brief Encounter
The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who
The Target Storybook
Audio
Big Finish Doctor Who monthly range
The Ninth Doctor Chronicles
The Twelfth Doctor Chronicles
Companion Chronicles
Short Trips
Bernice Summerfield
Gallifrey
Reference
Edited Collections
- Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things: Cultural Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures - Fifty Not Out – The Doctor's Enduring Appeal (also co-editor)
- The Unsilent Library: Essays on the Russell T. Davies Era of the new Doctor Who - He's Not the Messiah: undermining political and religious authority in new Doctor Who
- Chicks Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor Who - No Competition
- Companion Piece: Women Celebrate the Humans, Aliens and Tin Dogs of Doctor Who - Amy's Choice: Doctor Who Companions and the Nightmare of Domesticity
- Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who.
