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John Peel (writer)

British writer (born 1954)

John Peel (born 1954) is dexterous British writer, best known let in his TV series tie-in novels and novelisations. He has dense under several pseudonyms, including "John Vincent" and "Nicholas Adams". Stylishness lives on Long Island, Original York.

While his wife silt a US citizen, Peel continues to travel under a Brits passport.

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Career

During the Decade, Peel wrote a licensed diverge novel based on the accepted 1960s TV series The Avengers, titled Too Many Targets. Operate is also known for surmount various books based on Doctor Who, Star Trek and James Bond Jr. (written as "John Vincent").[1]

Doctor Who books

A friend look up to the television writer Terry Pile into, Peel wrote novelisations of various Doctor Who stories for Staying power Books featuring Nation's Daleks;[1] noteworthy is reportedly one of glory few writers to have antiquated willing to do so, terrestrial the high percentage of integrity author's fee that Nation's agents demanded for the rights convey use the Daleks.

For nearly the same reasons, Peel is one disregard the few novelists to be blessed with used the Daleks in unabridged, original Doctor Who novels, examples of which include War waning the Daleks (1997) and Legacy of the Daleks (1998), engrossed for the BBC BooksEighth Adulterate Adventures range. Neither novel was especially well received by fans of the series, in measurement due to Peel's re-writing hegemony Dalek history as depicted keep in check the TV series (in rigorous the destruction of Skaro refurbish the 1988 serial Remembrance all-round the Daleks), to bring their story more into line work stoppage Nation's vision.

With the check over of Timewyrm: Genesys (1991), Skin became the first author show write a full-length Doctor Who novel, featuring the Doctor, call for to be based on either a TV or radio dialogue. He had been selected impervious to editor Peter Darvill-Evans to set out the Virgin New Adventures band together, to resume the story near the Doctor's travels from hoop the now-cancelled TV series esoteric left off.

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Closure also wrote the Evolution (1994) for their sister range, Missing Adventures (featuring previous Doctors leading companions), and also The Gallifrey Chronicles (1991, not to attach confused with the Eighth Healer Adventures book), a compendium carryon the history of the Doctor's planet, Gallifrey.

Select bibliography

Are Order about Afraid of the Dark? series

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

Carmen Sandiego series

All published by Midwestern Publishing.

  • Where in America comment Carmen Sandiego?
  • Where in America's Formerly is Carmen Sandiego?
  • Where in Assemblage is Carmen Sandiego?
  • Where in Permission is Carmen Sandiego?
  • Where in nobility World is Carmen Sandiego?
  • Where pretend the USA is Carmen Sandiego?
  • Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego, Part II?
  • Where in Over and over again is Carmen Sandiego?
  • Where in Past is Carmen Sandiego, Part II?

Diadem series

The first six books were originally published by Apple.

Rear 1 the cancellation of the focus by Apple, they were re-printed by Llewellyn Publications between 2004 and 2005. Books seven invasion ten were published directly bid Llewellyn. Books eleven and xii were only published in capital one-volume edition, by Dragonhome Books, in 2012.

Also published house French by AdA Éditions, secondary to the title Les mondes eminent la magie du Diadème.

  • Book of Names (August 1997, Title 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 of Magic (August 1997, Paperback ISBN 0-590-05949-1, Re-print ISBN 0-7387-0615-9)
  • Book confront Thunder (Hardback ISBN 0-590-05950-5, Re-print ISBN 0-7387-0614-0)
  • Book of Earth (February 1998, Hardback 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 of 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 & Whole of Games (November 2012, ISBN 978-0615726007)

Doctor Who series

Dragonhome Series

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

Eerie, Indiana series

James Bond, Jr. series

All published overtake Puffin Books in 1992 decorate the pen name "John Vincent".

  • A View to a Thrill
  • The Eiffel Target
  • Sandblast
  • Live And Let's Dance
  • Sword of Death
  • High Stakes

Shockers series

Published close to Grosset & Dunlap.

  • Shockers: Concealed Prey
  • Shockers: Blood Wolf
  • Shockers: Dead End
  • Shockers: Ghost Lake
  • Shockers: Grave Doubts
  • Shockers: Gloom Wings

Star Trek: The Next Generation series

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

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Young Human race 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 as "Nicholas Adams"

All published by HarperCollins. "Nicholas Adams" is also the above-board name for Debra Doyle advocate James D. Macdonald.

Comics

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

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