WHAT LURKS IN THE ELECTRONIC LABYRINTH?

'A timely look at a vital issue of today... you will never look at a
computer the same way.' - Phreakphest

A DRAMATIC TRUE STORY OF HI-TECH CRIME

The Nineteen-Eighties; as we enter the age of the Computer, the newborn
'Internet' spreads across America, and the computer invasion enters out
homes. Across the technological frontier, and incredible war begins between
the data criminals and their savvy opponents.

A brilliant young programmer, a beautiful college student, and a mysterious
hacker known only as 'The Doctor' join forces to combat an electronic threat
that has fallen into the hands of a notorious computer outlaw.

Respected computer journalist Charles 'Chick' Peters was an eye witness as
these unlikely heroes fought their hi-tech skirmishes across the nation's
vulnerable capitol - and inside the world of the computer. BLUE BOX is the
compelling true story of a secret computer project that could literally
change the way you think.

This adventure features the Sixth Doctor and Peri.

In ancient Akrotiri, a young girl is learning mysteries from a tutor, who, quite literally, fell from the skies.

With his encouragement she can fly and surf the timestreams and see something of the future. But then the demons come.

Death and disaster are meted out by the Gods of her land. Perhaps retribution for some heinous crime... or something far more sinister?

'Depends on how you define alien,' the Doctor said simply. 'They were human once.'

In 2006 the world is about to be overwhelmed by a disaster that might destroy human civilization: the inversion of the Earth's magnetic field. Deep in an Antarctic base, the FLIPback team is frantically devising a system to reverse the change in polarity.

Above them, the SS Elysium carries its jet-set passengers on the ultimate cruise. On board is Ruby Duvall, a journalist sent to record the FLIPback moment. Instead she finds a man called the Doctor, who is locked out of the strange green box he says is merely a part of his time machine. And she finds old enemies of the Doctor: silver giants at work beneath the ice.

He took up a firing stance, holding the thirty-eight out in front of him. 'Mr Lennon?' he said.

1968: Christian Alvarez meets the Doctor in London.
1978: the great temple of the Aztecs is discovered in Mexico.
1980: John Lennon is murdered in New York.
1994: A gunman runs amok in Mexico City.

Each time, Christian is there. Each time, he experiences the Blue, a traumatic psychic shock. Only the Doctor can help him - but the Doctor has problems of his own. Following the events of Bloodheat and The Dimension Riders, the Doctor knows that someone or something has been tinkering with time. Now he finds that events in his own past have been altered - and a lethal force from South America's prehistory has been released.

The Doctor, Ace and Bernice travel to the Aztec Empire in 1487, to London in the Swinging Sixties, and to the sinking of the Titanic as they attempt to rectify the temporal faults - and survive the attacks of the living god Huitzilin.

A new collection of short stories published to coincide with Benny's tenth anniversary. Each story is set at a different period during Professor Bernice Summerfield's highly eventful life.

RETURN OF THE
LIVING DAD

AN ORIGINAL DOCTOR WHO NOVEL

'It's me, daddy. It's Bernice.'

Bernice Summerfield was seven years old when her father disappeared. They said he turned and ran from the Daleks in battle. They said he was a coward.

They were wrong.

For years Benny has searched for her father. Now a clue snatches her from her honeymoon, back to the TARDIS, and on to England in the year 1983. There she at last discovers Admiral Isaac Summerfield, leading a motley crew of aliens, psychics and fanboys. Their mission: to save extra-terrestrials stranded on Earth.

But what is Benny's father doing five hundred years in his own past? And why has he been waiting for the Doctor to arrive? Can Benny really trust the man she's been looking for all her life?

DOCTOR WHO

KATE ORMAN lives on the InterNet, and occasionally in Sydney, Australia.  This is her fourth New Adventure.

THE ROOM WITH NO DOORS

'Dear Doctor,' wrote Chris, 'I give up.'

Swordplay, samurai, demons, magic, aliens, adventure, excitement...  Who needs them?

The Doctor and Chris travel to sixteenth-century Japan, a country gripped by civil war as feudal lords vie for contol. Anything could tip the balance of power.  So when a god falls out of the sky, everyone wants it.

As villagers are healed and crops grow far too fast, the Doctor and Chris try to find the secret of the miracles - before two rival armies can start a war over who owns the god.

Chris soon finds himself alone - except for an alien slaver, a time-travelling Victorian inventor, a gang of demons, and old friend with suspicious motives, a village full of innocent bystanders, and several thousand samurai.

Without the Doctor, someone has to take up the challenge of adventure and stop the gods falling into the wrong hands.  Someone has to be the hero - but Chris isn't sure he wants to ge a hero any more.

THE NEW ADVENTURES

KATE ORMAN lives in Sydney, Australia.  The Doctor has somehow survived her four previous New Adventures.

He has no idea why Samantha Jones ran away from him.

Sam is homeless on the streets of the colony world of Ha'olam, trying to face what's just happened between her and the Doctor.  He's searching for her, and for answers.  While she struggles to survive in a strange city centuries from home, the Doctor comes across evidence of alien involvement in the local mega-corporation, INC - and is soon confined to a prison that becomes a hell of his own making.

Where did INC's mysterious eye implants really come from?  What is the company searching for in the deserts?  What is hiding in the shadows, watching their progress?

Faced with these mysteries, separated by half a world, Sam and the Doctor each face a battle - Sam to rebuild her life, the Doctor to stay sane.  And if they do find each other again, what will be left of either of them?

Dead. He was dead. How the hell was she supposed to do CPR on a man with two hearts?

There's a rip in the fabric of space and time. Passenger ships are disappearing from the interstellar traffic lanes. In an attempt to find out who's behind the disappearances, the Doctor and Ace allow themselves to be captured. But when Bernice's rescue attempt goes terribly wrong, the time travellers find themselves scattered throughout history.

Ace, stranded in Ancient Egypt, struggles to survive in an environment as alien as a distant planet: the Earth 3,000 years before she was born. She manages to find employment as a nobleman's bodyguard. And then she comes face to face with the metal horrors which have pursued her through time - the creatures she saw kill the Doctor.

'Stay the hell out of my mind,' hissed Forrester. 'Just stay away from me.' She turned and stalked out of the room.
Chris put his head in his hands.

The Earth colony on Yemaya 4 is a very ordinary place. The colonists spend their time farming, building homes, raising families.

But when the Doctor and his companions arrive they find a virus sweeping through the population, unleashing the colonists' latent psychic powers. The Doctor and Chris fall prey to the infection, and discover telepathy is not the only symptom. Chris is unable to resist the call of an ancient place of sacrifice, while Roz and Benny travel back in time to the origin of the virus, and uncover a desperate bid for immortality.

And all the while the Doctor is playing a dangerous game with troopers of the Dione-Kisumu company, who have come either to reclaim the stolen biotechnology - or to sterilize the planet.

Full-length, original novels based on the longest-running science fiction television series of all time, BBC's Doctor Who.  The New Adventures take the TARDIS into previously unexplored realms of space and time.

Kate Orman is (drums fingers) still the only New Adventures writer who isn't (a) male, and (b) British.  Her previous books, The Left-Handed Hummingbird and Set Piece, also have pyramids in them.

'They called it the Millennium Effect,' said the Doctor.  'But the millennium was only beginning.'

San Francisco has changed since the start of 2000.  The laws of physics keep having acid flashbacks.  There are sightings of creatures from outside our dimensions, stranded aliens and surrealist street performers.  The city has become a mecca for those who revel in impossible creatures - and those who want to see them pinned down and put away.

Sam's past is catching up with her - a past she didn't know she had.  The Doctor is in danger of becoming the pièce de rèsistance in a twisted collection of creatures.  And beneath the waters of the Bay, something huge is waiting.

With time running out, the Doctor must choose which to sacrifice - a city of wonders, or the life of an old and dear friend.

In the days when the Time Lords were young, their war with the Vampires cost trillions of lives on countless worlds.  Now the Vampires have been sighted again, in San Francisco.

Some want to coexist with humans, using genetic engineering in a macabre experiment to find a new source of blood.  But some would rather go out in a blaze of glory - and UNIT's attempts to contain them could provoke another devastating war.

The Doctor strikes a dangerous bargain, but even he might not be able to keep the city from getting caught in the crossfire.  While he finds himself caught in a web of old feuds and high-tech schemes, his new companion Sam finds out just how deadly travelling with the Doctor can be.

'I'm scared of letting all these people down. Like the whole human race. At least if I get blown up as well, they can say I died heroically. Assuming I ever existed at all.'

When Bernice Summerfield visits the People - an incredibly advanced civilisation living in a Dyson sphere - she discovers that ever in utopia they still have their problems.

An illegal time-travel experiment threatens a war that could destroy them all. Rather than risk it, the People and their ultra-powerful computer, God, are prepared to eradicate the source of the problem - the ancient city of Babylon. But such action would involve the death of a quarter of a million human beings, and do incalculable damage to Earth's history.

Babylon - and the human race - have one hope. Benny returns to the cradle of civilisation to try and stop the interference. She has just one week to prevent a catastrophe that could mean she will never be born. Her only assistance comes from a Victorian linguist who has stumbled across the experiment himself. But he's no help at all - even though he has a power neither of them suspects.

Iris is an enigma... She's an enigma wrapped in a mystery. With a shapeless, tasteless hat clamped to her head. She's an enigma wrapped in a mystery, with a shapeless, tasteless hat clamped her head and she's puffing on a gold-tipped black Sobranie.

And she drives a big red double-decker bus, ostensibly bound for Putney Common. Except it's not. She's been to Putney Common precisely once and that was by accident. That was when she picked up Tom, who is now her best friend.

Together they journey through the multiverse: boozing and fighting; righting wrongs and buggering things up again. Here, in their first exciting anthology of ludicrous adventures they meet monsters, klllers, ambassadors, insect-things, detectives, weirdos, psychics, fiends and sundry perverts.

'Doctor!' said Anji.  This couldn't be happening, he couldn't just walk out on them!  'Look, give them a chance, they're frightened, they're only -'

'Human?'  He took a deep breath, as though to stop himself from saying anything more.  'Now stay!'

The weather is going to hell.  The tigers are coming to town.  And the Doctor has taken his violin and vanished.

The island world of Hitchemus is home to a colony of musicians and seemingly harmless alien animals.  When the storms and the tigers break loose, the Doctor tries to protect the humans - but the humans don't want him.  When he ventures into the wilderness in search of the tigers' secrets, Fitz and Anji find themselves on their own, trying to prevent war.

With both sides eager for blood, and hurricanes on the horizon, the Doctor must decide whether this time he's on the side of the human race.