Guy Adams
Author of Sherlock: The Casebook
About the Author
Guy Adams trained and worked as an actor for twelve
years before becoming a full-time writer. He is the coauthor
of The Case Notes of Sherlock Holmes, has written
several tie-ins to the TV series Life on Mars. His most
recently published novel is Restoration, the follow-up to the
much-praised show more horror novel, The World House. show less
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Series
Works by Guy Adams
Between the Sheets 7 copies
The Third Doctor Adventures: The Transcendence of Ephros / The Hidden Realm (2016) 7 copies, 1 review
Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Adventure Series 10 Volume 1 (Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series 10) (2021) — Author — 6 copies
Blake's 7: The Liberator Chronicles, Volume 12: Corners of the Mind, Capital and Punishment (2016) — Author — 6 copies
The Diary of River Song: The Unknown 5 copies
The Third Doctor Adventures: The Rise of the New Humans / The Tyrants of Logic (2018) — Author — 5 copies
The Diary of River Song: Peepshow 2 copies
The Children of the Stones [radio drama] — Scriptwriter — 2 copies
Death in New Venice 1 copy
The Year After I Died 1 copy
The Door 1 copy
Class: In Remembrance — Author — 1 copy
Time's Assassin 1 copy
Poison of the Daleks 1 copy
Children of the Stones 1 copy
Notes from the upside down: Das inoffizielle Buch zu Stranger Things - Die Erfolgsserie auf Netflix (2019) 1 copy
Dr Who: The War Master: Only the Good: The Heavenly Paradigm — Author — 1 copy
Month 25 1 copy
The Scream of Ghosts 1 copy
Messaggi del sottosopra 1 copy
Associated Works
The Mammoth Book of Zombie Apocalypse! Fightback (Mammoth Books) (2012) — Contributor — 66 copies, 1 review
Bound in Blood: Stories of Cursed Books, Damned Libraries and Unearthly Authors (2024) — Contributor — 59 copies, 3 reviews
The Other Side of Never: Dark Tales from the World of Peter & Wendy (2023) — Contributor — 32 copies
Birds, Strangers and Psychos: New stories inspired by Alfred Hitchcock (2025) — Contributor — 14 copies, 1 review
Human Rights and the Moral Responsibilities of Corporate and Public Sector Organisations (Issues in Business Ethics) (2004) — Contributor — 8 copies
Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures, Volume Two — Contributor — 6 copies
The New Counter-Measures: Series 1 — Contributor — 5 copies
2000 AD Free Comic Book Day #2017 — Contributor — 2 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Adams, Guy
- Legal name
- Adams, Guy
- Other names
- Ashe, Gregory
- Birthdate
- 1976-01-06
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- museum curator
tour guide
historical researcher
actor
news agent - Organizations
- British Fantasy Society
- Short biography
- Guy Adams collects careers like baseball cards. In his, surprisingly limited, time he has tried his hand at Museum Curator, Tour Guide, Historical Researcher, Newsagent…
His main occupations, however, have always been acting and writing. In the former he has mugged people in Emmerdale, watched Rugby in Where The Heart Is, perved around in his y-fronts simulating sex with a woman dressed as a horse (Jean Genet’s The Balcony) and earned something of a reputation by impersonating real people (Hemingway, George Bernard Shaw and Hitler, to name but a few). He also toured as one half of the wittily titled Adams & Jarrett on the comedy circuit and is the youngest actor to portray Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes professionally.
As a writer, he has churned out scripts for the above comedy shows and falsified Elizabethan Mummer’s Plays. A couple of novels, More Than This and The Imagineer have earned nothing but people seem to like them so he doesn’t let it worry him. He is the author of three books about the television series Life On Mars — two for Simon & Schuster and one for Transworld. If nothing else, these have kept him in Gin.
He is currently working on a big book about Sherlock Holmes, a Deadbeat novella or three and a children’s book set in his adoptive country of Spain which he is rather hopeful that one of the previous mentioned publishers will pay him good money for. - Nationality
- UK
- Places of residence
- Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK
Moraira, La Marina Alta, Spain - Associated Place (for map)
- England, UK
Members
Reviews
Neverwhere makes a baby with Rick and Morty, what is born is the wholly original series 'The Change', written by Guy Adams.
The Change impacted the London suburbs as bizarrely as it did the rest of the planet, with close to any imaginable horrors coming to life. It more than just London, the entire world is in a state of 'screwed beyond comprehension'. Anyone who witnessed it, staring into the sky while the fabric of our world shredded, died on the spot. They dropped to the ground like their show more strings were cut and existence was over. Those who witnessed it second hand via recording or playback, they went crazy; It just broke them and they fell apart in whatever manner their minds required in order to remain 'living'.
Everyone else just plugs along. The blind, the sleeping, the hermits and Luddite technophobes. If they failed to witness the end, they live through the aftermath until something else tries to kill them.
Howard lived and to the best of his knowledge was not crazy. Hard to tell since he had no memory of any personal history.. Full amnesia. Even his name is a guess, based on a journal in his pocket. He just woke up blank and started walking down the crowded freeway filled with cars, corpses, and periodic unexplained bloodstains.
Howard is rescued, after being maimed by locust style swarms of pigeons with teeth, a taste for meat, and flock coordination. His savior is a boy named 'Hubcap' who brings him to relative safety in a group of survivors. Relative is key terminology as they are being hunted by something hungrier and crazier than any mutant pigeons could be.
The world of The Change is a teen fiction export from the UK. It is short, clocking in around 160 pages and probably falls more to the vein of Novella, but is solid from cover to cover. London Orbital is the first in a series, currently three novella, but seems ripe for easy expansion due to the way it was crafted. It relies heavily on world building, but delivers the world quickly and easily, spacing out key data into punchy conversation and short journal snippets.
Unfortunately for me, while the target audience (teens) might take The Change at face value and survive, I would not be so lucky. As an adult, I cannot resist obsessively speculating what was in the sky that murdered the planet, or ways in which you could filter video or perspective to see via tape. I would be dead or crazy as a look in the world of The Change after day one.
While this Novella is not 'graphic', it absolutely does not hold punches when it comes to accurate and potentially queasy descriptions. It May not be appropriate for 0-8 year old age ranges but who really knows these days, my five year old loves Jurassic World after all. He cheers for the Dinosaurs..
This should not be confused with another series from the UK in the 1960's called The Changes which was equally enjoyable for different reasons. Nor the books of the Change by SM Stirling which I personally have mixed feelings on.
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Disclosure: This book was provided to me by the publisher for review purposes. Had I said no, there is minimal risk they would have left me to die on an ant hill covered in honey. Lucky for me, I like ants and honey, so I do not know how that would have changed my perception. I would advised if this book sucks and then eaten protein laden honey on toast. show less
The Change impacted the London suburbs as bizarrely as it did the rest of the planet, with close to any imaginable horrors coming to life. It more than just London, the entire world is in a state of 'screwed beyond comprehension'. Anyone who witnessed it, staring into the sky while the fabric of our world shredded, died on the spot. They dropped to the ground like their show more strings were cut and existence was over. Those who witnessed it second hand via recording or playback, they went crazy; It just broke them and they fell apart in whatever manner their minds required in order to remain 'living'.
Everyone else just plugs along. The blind, the sleeping, the hermits and Luddite technophobes. If they failed to witness the end, they live through the aftermath until something else tries to kill them.
Howard lived and to the best of his knowledge was not crazy. Hard to tell since he had no memory of any personal history.. Full amnesia. Even his name is a guess, based on a journal in his pocket. He just woke up blank and started walking down the crowded freeway filled with cars, corpses, and periodic unexplained bloodstains.
Howard is rescued, after being maimed by locust style swarms of pigeons with teeth, a taste for meat, and flock coordination. His savior is a boy named 'Hubcap' who brings him to relative safety in a group of survivors. Relative is key terminology as they are being hunted by something hungrier and crazier than any mutant pigeons could be.
The world of The Change is a teen fiction export from the UK. It is short, clocking in around 160 pages and probably falls more to the vein of Novella, but is solid from cover to cover. London Orbital is the first in a series, currently three novella, but seems ripe for easy expansion due to the way it was crafted. It relies heavily on world building, but delivers the world quickly and easily, spacing out key data into punchy conversation and short journal snippets.
Unfortunately for me, while the target audience (teens) might take The Change at face value and survive, I would not be so lucky. As an adult, I cannot resist obsessively speculating what was in the sky that murdered the planet, or ways in which you could filter video or perspective to see via tape. I would be dead or crazy as a look in the world of The Change after day one.
While this Novella is not 'graphic', it absolutely does not hold punches when it comes to accurate and potentially queasy descriptions. It May not be appropriate for 0-8 year old age ranges but who really knows these days, my five year old loves Jurassic World after all. He cheers for the Dinosaurs..
This should not be confused with another series from the UK in the 1960's called The Changes which was equally enjoyable for different reasons. Nor the books of the Change by SM Stirling which I personally have mixed feelings on.
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Disclosure: This book was provided to me by the publisher for review purposes. Had I said no, there is minimal risk they would have left me to die on an ant hill covered in honey. Lucky for me, I like ants and honey, so I do not know how that would have changed my perception. I would advised if this book sucks and then eaten protein laden honey on toast. show less
Overall this is a pretty good collection. I think the first story captured River's voice the best; the last couple of stories over-egged it on the parenthetical asides and River's self-assessed greatness.
Minor spoiler for the story "Death in New Venice":
In this story, a ghost stabs someone with what is described as a "crochet needle". Crocheters use *hooks*, not needles, and it would take quite a bit of effort to stab someone with a crochet hook, especially in order to draw blood. The end of show more the hook would be blunt and it would make a messy proposition. I suspect the author meant a knitting needle instead. I love that in a sci-fi story, THIS is the one thing I can't suspend disbelief over. show less
Minor spoiler for the story "Death in New Venice":
In this story, a ghost stabs someone with what is described as a "crochet needle". Crocheters use *hooks*, not needles, and it would take quite a bit of effort to stab someone with a crochet hook, especially in order to draw blood. The end of show more the hook would be blunt and it would make a messy proposition. I suspect the author meant a knitting needle instead. I love that in a sci-fi story, THIS is the one thing I can't suspend disbelief over. show less
The First Doctor Adventures star David Bradley as the Doctor’s original incarnation, along with Claudia Grant as Susan, Jemma Powell as Barbara, and Jamie Glover as Ian. Volume 1 contains two hour-long dramas: The Destination Wars and The Great White Hurricane.
The Destination Wars is set on a distant planet in “Space Year 2003”, which is a lovely nod to the sort of futuristic story the 60s produced and that now seem quaintly retro. It features robots, warring species, and an almost show more godlike figure called “the Inventor”. Now who could that be…?
The Great White Hurricane, meanwhile, is a straight-up historical, plunking the TARDIS crew in New York City just as a raging blizzard is about to set in. Barbara, as a history teacher, knows all too well how dangerous the city is going to be if they can’t stay together—and then they get caught up in a gang war!
The structure and pacing of both stories beautifully echo the original series; each story is divided into four “episodes” of approximately 25 minutes, and each episode after the first very briefly repeats the last couple of lines of the previous episodes. This makes the set especially handy for listening to in chunks. David Bradley gives an excellent performance as the First Doctor; although the First Doctor has a reputation for being cantankerous, Bradley doesn’t play that note constantly. When he *does* fire off acerbic one-liners, they are that much more effective.
Of the two stories, I greatly preferred The Destination Wars. Retro-futuristic stories are somewhat my jam, and all of the companions had some good moments. I especially enjoyed Barbara and Ian teaming up to fight the Inventor (who’s actually the Master — it’s not really a spoiler…).
I was less satisfied with The Great White Hurricane, because the American accents drove me to distraction. I’m not sure how many of the actors were actually American, and I couldn’t tell. Perhaps I am just so used to hearing accents from the British Isles on Doctor Who that American accents sound “wrong” for the context (which I admit is a bit snooty), but I would not be surprised if there were non-American actors trying to sustain the American accent for a long period.
Edit June 17, 2018: I just finished listening to the "behind the scenes" disc and two of the actors seem to have come from the States, so I'm more inclined to favour my hypothesis that the problem was on my end more so than on theirs ;)
It does occur to me that there were slightly dodgy American accents in the original series—the cowboy at the top of the Empire State Building in “The Chase” springs to mind—so perhaps we can call it an homage ;) I also found the rival gang member cartoonish in his desire to avenge his friend’s killing, particularly toward the end of the story. But the overall idea for the story was a good one and could certainly prompt people to find out more about the historical circumstances that inspired it.
I would guardedly recommend this set, more for David Bradley’s performance and for the evocation of the original show: the combination of sci-fi and historical stories, the structure and pacing, and the sound design (and that lovely original theme!). I will be interested to see what stories come up in Volume 2. show less
The Destination Wars is set on a distant planet in “Space Year 2003”, which is a lovely nod to the sort of futuristic story the 60s produced and that now seem quaintly retro. It features robots, warring species, and an almost show more godlike figure called “the Inventor”. Now who could that be…?
The Great White Hurricane, meanwhile, is a straight-up historical, plunking the TARDIS crew in New York City just as a raging blizzard is about to set in. Barbara, as a history teacher, knows all too well how dangerous the city is going to be if they can’t stay together—and then they get caught up in a gang war!
The structure and pacing of both stories beautifully echo the original series; each story is divided into four “episodes” of approximately 25 minutes, and each episode after the first very briefly repeats the last couple of lines of the previous episodes. This makes the set especially handy for listening to in chunks. David Bradley gives an excellent performance as the First Doctor; although the First Doctor has a reputation for being cantankerous, Bradley doesn’t play that note constantly. When he *does* fire off acerbic one-liners, they are that much more effective.
Of the two stories, I greatly preferred The Destination Wars. Retro-futuristic stories are somewhat my jam, and all of the companions had some good moments. I especially enjoyed Barbara and Ian teaming up to fight the Inventor (who’s actually the Master — it’s not really a spoiler…).
I was less satisfied with The Great White Hurricane, because the American accents drove me to distraction. I’m not sure how many of the actors were actually American, and I couldn’t tell. Perhaps I am just so used to hearing accents from the British Isles on Doctor Who that American accents sound “wrong” for the context (which I admit is a bit snooty), but I would not be surprised if there were non-American actors trying to sustain the American accent for a long period.
Edit June 17, 2018: I just finished listening to the "behind the scenes" disc and two of the actors seem to have come from the States, so I'm more inclined to favour my hypothesis that the problem was on my end more so than on theirs ;)
It does occur to me that there were slightly dodgy American accents in the original series—the cowboy at the top of the Empire State Building in “The Chase” springs to mind—so perhaps we can call it an homage ;) I also found the rival gang member cartoonish in his desire to avenge his friend’s killing, particularly toward the end of the story. But the overall idea for the story was a good one and could certainly prompt people to find out more about the historical circumstances that inspired it.
I would guardedly recommend this set, more for David Bradley’s performance and for the evocation of the original show: the combination of sci-fi and historical stories, the structure and pacing, and the sound design (and that lovely original theme!). I will be interested to see what stories come up in Volume 2. show less
Join me in my jump through time and space, will you, Sweetie?
First thing is first. If you know me, then you will know I tend to have a genuine distaste for Professor River Song. I typically find her to be terribly obnoxious. Way too "I'm badass, you and everyone in this universe and the next know it." Really freaking annoying, guys. Occasionally, she grows on me though, more so as of late, but she's still on my "not so fab character list." Same with Missy. I hated her in the beginning, but show more near the end of Capaldi's era, I started to like her a bit more. For this reason, I had put off picking up this book. But, after some time had passed, I came across this in the library stacks and, for shits and giggles, I decided to pick it up.
I was pleasantly surprised. It was kind of funny and made me like River a bit more than I had. The book consisted of five "diary entries," all from different events in River's life. Of which, I believe, two included the Doctor. And one which included a living mannequin of Elvis. But that's a story for you to check out for yourself. As River says, "Spoilers!"
Each of the stories, or diary entries, gave me a new perspective on River's character. Though you'll see with her character on the show, River tends to only care for herself, the Doctor, and her parents, Amy and Rory. In the book, she shows a part of herself we don't normally see. That River is the main heroine. She decides how she will act. She decides whether or not she will intervene in events. We actually get to see some of her adventures, which was fun.
If you're like me and tend to avoid anything Professor River Song (though her diary I would steal in a heartbeat. And the vortex manipulator), you shouldn't skip out on The Legends of River Song.
P.S. There is the occasional spelling error--and no, I'm not talking about the differences between American English and British English, these are legit mistakes (i.e.: closed instead of close) and the occasional missing punctuation mark. But don't worry, they don't interfere with the story, nor do they occur too often. It's just stuff that was missed before publication. show less
First thing is first. If you know me, then you will know I tend to have a genuine distaste for Professor River Song. I typically find her to be terribly obnoxious. Way too "I'm badass, you and everyone in this universe and the next know it." Really freaking annoying, guys. Occasionally, she grows on me though, more so as of late, but she's still on my "not so fab character list." Same with Missy. I hated her in the beginning, but show more near the end of Capaldi's era, I started to like her a bit more. For this reason, I had put off picking up this book. But, after some time had passed, I came across this in the library stacks and, for shits and giggles, I decided to pick it up.
I was pleasantly surprised. It was kind of funny and made me like River a bit more than I had. The book consisted of five "diary entries," all from different events in River's life. Of which, I believe, two included the Doctor. And one which included a living mannequin of Elvis. But that's a story for you to check out for yourself. As River says, "Spoilers!"
Each of the stories, or diary entries, gave me a new perspective on River's character. Though you'll see with her character on the show, River tends to only care for herself, the Doctor, and her parents, Amy and Rory. In the book, she shows a part of herself we don't normally see. That River is the main heroine. She decides how she will act. She decides whether or not she will intervene in events. We actually get to see some of her adventures, which was fun.
If you're like me and tend to avoid anything Professor River Song (though her diary I would steal in a heartbeat. And the vortex manipulator), you shouldn't skip out on The Legends of River Song.
P.S. There is the occasional spelling error--and no, I'm not talking about the differences between American English and British English, these are legit mistakes (i.e.: closed instead of close) and the occasional missing punctuation mark. But don't worry, they don't interfere with the story, nor do they occur too often. It's just stuff that was missed before publication. show less
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