Doctor Who: Earth and Beyond

by Peter Anghelides, Paul Leonard, Andrew Miller

Bounty -- Seventeen-year-old Sam Jones's first trip in the Tardis is to the Seychelles in the present day -- and involves a deadly encounter with alien bounty hunters.

Dead Time -- The Tardis crash-lands in a freezing world of utter darkness. Who are the whispering creatures that want the Doctor dead?

The People's Temple -- Arriving at Stonehenge during its construction, the time travelers soon discover that its mystical origins are steeped in human suffering.

Genres: Doctor Who, Science Fiction

Audio Cassette

First published May 28, 1998

About the author

Anghelides' first published work was the short story "Moving On" in the third volume of the Virgin Decalog collections, which led to further short stories in the fourth collection and then in two of the BBC Short Trips collections that followed. In January 1998, his first novel Kursaal was published as part of BBC Books' Eighth Doctor Adventures series on books. Anghelides subsequently wrote two more novels for the range, Frontier Worlds in November 1999, which was named "Best Eighth Doctor Novel" in the annual Doctor Who Magazine poll of its readers, and the The Ancestor Cell in July 2000 (co-written with departing editor Stephen Cole). The Ancestor Cell was placed ninth in the Top 10 of SFX magazine's "Best SF/Fantasy novelisation or TV tie-in novel" category of that year.

Anghelides also wrote several short stories for a variety of Big Finish Productions' Short Trips and Bernice Summerfield collections. This led, in November 2002, to the production of his first audio adventure for Big Finish, the play Sarah Jane Smith: Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre.

In 2008, he wrote a comic which featured on the Doctor Who website

Reviews

[Adam Graham · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book features three stories with the Eighth Doctor and his companion Sam Jones:

The Bounty: The Doctor and Sam get caught in the middle of an alien bounty hunt that's come to Earth. Overall, this is an okay, but quite unremarkable story.

Dead Time: The Doctor and Sam crash into a dead world and there's some mystery around who brough brought them there and why. This story tries some time-related antics but it doesn't work that well.

Finally, there's the People's Temple where Sam wants to go to the beginning of Stonehenge and find out the real story. However the historic origin turns out to be far more than she prepared for. This is the longest story in the collection and it's also the best. It's very reminiscent of the Aztecs and really serves to teach Sam some hard lessons and provides her some solid character moments.

Despite the weaker first two stories, this one really makes the collection worth the listen.

[Philip · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice collection of stories, especially The People's Temple. Very well acted by Paul McGann in one of his earliest ever performances as the Eighth Doctor. Also nice to see Sam from the Eighth Doctor books making an appearance on audio. 3 stars.