16-501: The Time Hunter series of books is published by Telos Publishing Ltd. and features the characters Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish from Daniel O'Mahony 's Doctor Who novella The Cabinet of Light . Each novella is issued in a standard format paperback format, and a deluxe hardback edition signed by the novella's author. The series began with The Winning Side by Lance Parkin , following BBC Worldwide 's decision not to renew Telos's licence for publishing novellas based on
32-504: A couple of those books, Return of the Living Dad and The Room with No Doors , and been credited internally but not on the cover.) He has since written two further Eighth Doctor Adventures with Orman, Seeing I (BBC Books, 1998) and Unnatural History (BBC Books, 1999). Orman's 2001 solo novel The Year of Intelligent Tigers was credited on the spine to Orman, but internally as "story by Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman"; Blum provided
48-1064: A major science-fiction award. Christopher Fowler 's novella Breathe won the British Fantasy Society Award for best novella in 2005. In 2006, Telos' founders Howe and Walker won the World Fantasy Award for Best Non-Professional for their publishing work. Authors published by Telos Publishing have included Juliette Benzoni , William S Burroughs , Simon Clark , Paul Finch , Christopher Fowler , Neil Gaiman , Hank Janson , Tanith Lee , George Mann , Graham Masterton , Fiona Moore , Simon Morden , Mike Ripley , Alan Stevens , Sam Stone , and co-founders Stephen James Walker and David J. Howe . A series focused on "time sensitive" Honoré Lechasseur and "time channeler" Emily Blandish , characters first introduced in Telos' Doctor Who novella The Cabinet of Light . Jonathan Blum (writer, born 1972) Jonathan Blum (born May 1972)
64-558: A number of short films, including Audition For Murder , a tribute to the Australian adventure-spoof series Danger 5 which was approved by the show's producers. In 2003 and 2005, he edited two no-budget, Doctor Who "inspired" indie shorts for Australian fan Andrew Merkelbach, The Curse of the Del Garria and Red . The films each received a single (separate) cinema screening at the same multiplex cinema local to their director, but neither
80-652: A variety of awards in their own right, such as the Canadian Prix Aurora Award , and the British Fantasy Awards , where they won the PS Publishing Award for Best Small Press in 2010 and 2011. One of their publications, the Doctor Who novella Small Gods by Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman , won an Aurealis Award for Best Australian Science Fiction Novel, the first television tie-in to receive
96-624: A wide variety of works, from original novellas based on Doctor Who to original horror and fantasy novels. They also produce a variety of unofficial guide books to popular television and film series, as well as the Time Hunter series of novellas. Starburst magazine called them "perhaps the UK's best-known independent publishers of Doctor Who books". Telos have employed many unknown writers, in addition to works by established and award-winning authors . Telos, and its co-founders, have been nominated for
112-402: Is a publishing company, originally established by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker, with their first publication being a horror anthology based on the television series Urban Gothic in 2001. The name comes from that of the fictional planet Telos from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . Since being formed, Telos Publishing Ltd. has published
128-566: Is an American writer most known for his work for various Doctor Who spin-offs , usually with his wife Kate Orman although he has also been published on his own. Blum grew up in Maryland and attended the University of Maryland, College Park . He is a member of Alpha Phi Omega co-ed service fraternity. Blum started out as a fan of the BBC Television series Doctor Who , and in particular
144-605: Is now less clear. In September 2008, Telos announced that a fan production company, Fantom Films , had been licensed to produce audiobook readings of the Time Hunter novellas for release on CD and as online downloads. The first two titles, The Cabinet of Light and The Winning Side (read by former Doctor Who actors Terry Molloy and Louise Jameson respectively), were released in November 2008 and releases have continued since. Telos Publishing Telos Publishing Ltd.
160-514: The Aurealis Award (winning once) and once for the Ditmar Award . His other novel work includes Mediasphere (2015), a Blake's 7 novel co-written with Orman, and The Prisoners Dilemma (2005), a novel based on Patrick McGoohan 's series The Prisoner , co-written with his friend Rupert Booth and featuring an introduction by J. Michael Straczynski . Blum has also written and directed
176-404: The Doctor Who television series. The eleven novellas were published on an irregular schedule. Following the publication of this eleventh novella, Telos have announced that the range will temporarily end due to poor sales. Child of Time reveals much of the backstory of the series. The covers of the standard edition Time Hunter novellas each feature a circle motif containing the year in which
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#1733106110438192-482: The full outline and several interlude segments, as well as scenes for Orman's Blue Box (BBC Books, 2003). Blum's work as a solo writer began with the short story Model Train Set from the first BBC Short Trips collect in 1998. He has also written the novella Fallen Gods , published by Telos Publishing Ltd. in 2003, which was highly popular and won the Aurealis Award for Best Australian Science Fiction Novel in 2003:
208-678: The main characters from the book series appear in the DVD. A character appearing very briefly in The Albino's Dancer may be an unnamed Ninth Doctor , although whether this is true or not is left open to the reader's interpretation. The character "Dr Smith" who appears in Child of Time appears to be the incarnation of the Doctor first seen in The Cabinet of Light , although his identity with Doctor Who 's Doctor
224-620: The majority of the action of the story takes place. Although the novellas are not part of the Doctor Who franchise, they have featured familiar characters and concepts from the programme. Aside from Honoré and Emily, the Fendahl appears in Deus Le Volt , and a Daemon appears in Child of Time . Concepts from the Time Hunter series also feature in the Doctor Who spin-off DVD drama Daemos Rising written by David J. Howe , although neither of
240-498: The novella is credited to both Blum and Orman, but both authors have acknowledged that Blum did the majority of the writing and Orman's input was limited. Blum has also written for Big Finish 's range of audio adventures , with The Fearmonger being released in 2000. Blum has also written several short stories for Big Finish's short story collections, Short Trips , and stories and novellas for their Bernice Summerfield and Iris Wildthyme series. He has been nominated twice for
256-827: The spin-off range of novels the New Adventures , and was mostly known for his discussions of the program and its spin-offs on RADW, and also for writing and starring in several fan films such as Time Rift , in which he impersonated Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor . Blum has joked that he slept his way into the Doctor Who range—his first credited professional work was the BBC Books ' Eighth Doctor Adventure Vampire Science (BBC Books, 1997) written with his soon-to-be wife Kate Orman , who had already made her name with several popular New Adventures . (He had contributed scenes to
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