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Michael Collier (1) (1971–)

Author of Doctor Who and the Taint

For other authors named Michael Collier, see the disambiguation page.

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Works by Michael Collier

Doctor Who and the Taint (1999) 162 copies
Longest Day (1998) 152 copies

Associated Works

Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS, Volume One (2004) — Contributor — 11 copies
Out of the Darkness (1998) — Contributor — 5 copies

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Legal name
Cole, Stephen
Birthdate
1971-09-11
Gender
male
Nationality
UK
Birthplace
Bedfordshire, England
Awards and honors
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 2009) (3)
Short biography
Michael Collier is a pseudonym of author Stephen Cole, under which he wrote the Doctor Who novels Longest Day and The Taint, both in the BBC's Eighth Doctor Adventures series, and of the short story "Vigil" on the Doctor Who audio release Out of the Darkness.

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therebelprince | 2 other reviews | Oct 24, 2023 |
This book was okay, but hard to follow.
 
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lemontwist | 2 other reviews | Sep 3, 2023 |
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1749305.html

Nineteen adventures into the Eighth Doctor series, and he finally gets a new companion in the shape of Fitz Kreiner (I have seen a claim somewhere that there are more stories with Fitz than for any other companion), picked up on a visit to 1963 in which his mother is killed by the gruesomely horrible Taine, leech-like internal parasites feeding on brainwaves. The writing is decent enough; I was a bit startled by Fitz's unreconstructed early Sixties predatory masculinity directed to Sam, having only read later stories in the range; presumably he mellows out in the course of the series.… (more)
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nwhyte | Jun 4, 2011 |
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Basically a fairly standard adventure of the Eighth Doctor and Sam Jones arriving in the middle of a conflict on an alien planet; time eddies and nasty villains complicate the situation (though some of the characters seem to have remarkable powers of surviving major injuries). Remarkable for insisting, more than I remember previous volumes doing, on Sam's falling in love with the oblivious Doctor, which is of course now standard fare for New Who but was a new departure back them. And of course it turns out that this is a set-up for the ending when she and the Doctor are parted by circumstance, with several volumes to go before they are reunited.… (more)
 
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