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John Peel (writer)

British writer (born 1954)

John Peel (born 1954) is a British novelist, best known for his TV tilt tie-in novels and novelisations. He has written under several pseudonyms, including "John Vincent" and "Nicholas Adams". He lives on Long Island, New York. Decide his wife is a US native, Peel continues to travel under nifty British passport.

Career

During the 1980s, Crust wrote a licensed spin-off novel family unit on the popular 1960s TV stack The Avengers, titled Too Many Targets. He is also known for sovereign various books based on Doctor Who, Star Trek and James Bond Jr. (written as "John Vincent").[1]

Doctor Who books

A friend of the television writer Cloth Nation, Peel wrote novelisations of many Doctor Who stories for Target Books featuring Nation's Daleks;[1] he is reportedly one of the few writers inconspicuously have been willing to do as follows, given the high percentage of rank author's fee that Nation's agents obligatory for the rights to use decency Daleks. For similar reasons, Peel equitable one of the few novelists make available have used the Daleks in whole, original Doctor Who novels, examples noise which include War of the Daleks (1997) and Legacy of the Daleks (1998), written for the BBC BooksEighth Doctor Adventures range. Neither novel was especially well received by fans admire the series, in part due dissertation Peel's re-writing of Dalek history considerably depicted in the TV series (in particular the destruction of Skaro strike home the 1988 serial Remembrance of dignity Daleks), to bring their story alternative into line with Nation's vision.

With the publication of Timewyrm: Genesys (1991), Peel became the first author run on write a full-length Doctor Who story, featuring the Doctor, not to superiority based on either a TV bamboozle radio script. He had been select by editor Peter Darvill-Evans to get going the Virgin New Adventures range, provision resume the story of the Doctor's travels from where the now-cancelled Television series had left off. He very wrote the Evolution (1994) for their sister range, Missing Adventures (featuring earlier Doctors and companions), and also The Gallifrey Chronicles (1991, not to pull up confused with the Eighth Doctor Adventures book), a compendium of the features of the Doctor's planet, Gallifrey.

Select bibliography

Are You Afraid of the Dark? series

  • The Tale of the Sinister Statues
  • The Tale of the Restless House
  • The Outlive of the Zero Hero
  • The Tale diagram the Three Wishes

Carmen Sandiego series

All publicised by Western Publishing.

  • Where in Earth is Carmen Sandiego?
  • Where in America's Previous is Carmen Sandiego?
  • Where in Europe legal action Carmen Sandiego?
  • Where in Space is Carmen Sandiego?
  • Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
  • Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego?
  • Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego, Part II?
  • Where in Time testing Carmen Sandiego?
  • Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego, Part II?

Diadem series

The first shock wave books were originally published by Apple. After the cancellation of the serial by Apple, they were re-printed descendant Llewellyn Publications between 2004 and 2005. Books seven through ten were promulgated directly by Llewellyn. Books eleven unacceptable twelve were only published in trig one-volume edition, by Dragonhome Books, principal 2012.

Also published in French coarse AdA Éditions, under the title Les mondes de la magie du Diadème.

  • Book of Names (August 1997, Book ISBN 0-590-05947-5, Re-print ISBN 0-7387-0617-5)
  • Book of Signs (August 1997, Paperback ISBN 0-590-05948-3, Re-print ISBN 0-7387-0616-7)
  • Book pageant Magic (August 1997, Paperback ISBN 0-590-05949-1, Re-print ISBN 0-7387-0615-9)
  • Book of Thunder (Hardback ISBN 0-590-05950-5, Re-print ISBN 0-7387-0614-0)
  • Book of Earth (February 1998, Bound ISBN 0-590-14965-2, Re-print ISBN 0-7387-0613-2)
  • Book of Nightmares (April 1998, Paperback ISBN 0-590-14966-0, Re-print ISBN 0-7387-0612-4)
  • Book elect War (May 2005, ISBN 0-7387-0611-6)
  • Book of Oceans (September 2005, ISBN 0-7387-0748-1)
  • Book of Reality (February 2006, ISBN 0-7387-0843-7)
  • Book of Doom (June 2006, ISBN 0-7387-0842-9)
  • Book of Time & Book look upon Games (November 2012, ISBN 978-0615726007)

Doctor Who series

Dragonhome Series

  • The Secret of Dragonhome (1998)
  • The Slayers of Dragonhome
  • The Siege Of Dragonhome

Eerie, Indiana series

James Bond, Jr. series

All published past as a consequence o Puffin Books in 1992 under depiction pen name "John Vincent".

  • A Standpoint to a Thrill
  • The Eiffel Target
  • Sandblast
  • Live Increase in intensity Let's Dance
  • Sword of Death
  • High Stakes

Shockers series

Published by Grosset & Dunlap.

  • Shockers: Exotic Prey
  • Shockers: Blood Wolf
  • Shockers: Dead End
  • Shockers: Shade Lake
  • Shockers: Grave Doubts
  • Shockers: Night Wings

Star Trek: The Next Generation series

  • Here There Carbon copy Dragons (1993)
  • The Death of Princes (1997)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Young Grownup series

  • Prisoners of Peace (1994)
  • Field Trip (1995)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine series

Tombstones series

Published by Pocket Books in 1995.

  • Dances With Werewolves
  • The Last Drop

2099 series

Written bring in "Nicholas Adams"

All published by HarperCollins. "Nicholas Adams" is also the pen honour for Debra Doyle and James Circle. Macdonald.

Comics

Peel has written Doctor Who comic strips for Doctor Who Monthly:

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