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The Silent Stars Go By , 2011), the Torchwood novels (up through TW: The Men Who Sold the World , 2011), all of the Telos novellas (2001-2004), the four K9 children’s books (1980), and a number of one-off novels: Harry Sullivan’s War , Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma and Who Killed Kennedy .
    The audios covered include The Pescatons , Slipback , The Paradise of Death and The Ghosts of N-Space ; the BBC fourth Doctor mini-series ( Hornets’ Nest , Demon Quest and Serpent Crest ); and the extensive Big Finish Doctor Who audio range... its monthly series (up to Army of Death , #155), the Companion Chronicles (up to The First Wave , #6.5), the eighth Doctor audios initially broadcast on BBC7 (up to To the Death , #4.10) and various promotional audios (up to The Five Companions ).
    The Big Finish Lost Stories, which adapt unmade TV scripts for audio, have been included (up through The Children of Seth , #3.3) because Big Finish, while having no formal policy regarding the Lost Stories’ canonicity, isn’t averse to the Lost Stories being cross-referenced in obviously canonical adventures and - very tellingly - considers Raine Creevy (from the audio adaptations of the unmade Season 27 stories) as “real” as any Big Finish companion. Without an express directive to keep the Lost Stories in a separate continuity, the cross-pollination with the established Doctor Who audios will only increase over time, so it seemed fair to include them.
    The BBC webcasts Real Time , Shada and Death Comes to Time (the last one somewhat controversially) are also included, as well as the webcast Torchwood story Web of Lies .
    A handful of stories were available in another form - Shakedown and Downtime were originally direct-to-video spin-offs, some Big Finish stories like Minuet in Hell and The Mutant Phase are (often radically different) adaptations of stories made by Audio Visuals. Ahistory deals with the “official” versions, as opposed to the fan-produced ones.
    This volume covers two stories that appear in two different versions, because they were told in two media that fall within the scope of the book and were adapted for different Doctors: Shada and Human Nature . Those have been dealt with on a case-by-case basis. Doctor Who fans have long had different versions of the same story in different media - the first Dalek story, for example, was televised, extensively altered for the novelisation, changed again for the movie version and adapted into a comic strip.
    We haven’t included in-character appearances in nonfiction books (e.g: the Doctor Who Discovers ... and Doctor Who Quiz Book of series), and Make Your Own Adventure / Find Your Fate -style books where it’s impossible to determine the actual story. It was tempting, though.
    3. The Doctor Who comics, including the strip that has been running in Doctor Who Weekly / Monthly / Magazine since 1979 (up through “The Child of Time”, DWM #438-441), along with all original backup strips from that publication, and the ones from the various Specials and Yearbooks. With a book like this, drawing a line between what should and shouldn’t be included is never as simple as it might appear. Including every comic strip would include ones from the Annuals, for example. This book doesn’t include the text stories that Doctor Who Magazine has included at various points during its run.
    There’s a relatively straightforward distinction between the DWM comic strip and other Doctor Who comic strips: while it’s the work of many writers, artists and editors, it also has a strong internal continuity and sense of identity. This book, in all previous editions, has confined itself to “long form” Doctor Who and there’s a case to be made that the DWM strip represents one “ongoing story” that’s run for over a quarter of a century. The Doctor Who Magazine strip has now run for longer than the original TV series, and most fans must have encountered it at some point.
    That said, this