Andrew Lane (born 17 April 1963), as Andy Lane, is a British author and journalist best known for the

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series of Young Adult novels. He has written novels in the

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range and audio dramas for Big Finish based on the

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science fiction television series ''

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''. His Young Adult books are generally published under the name Andrew Lane, while media spin offs are Andy Lane.

Career

During 2009,

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announced that Lane would be writing a

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focusing on the early life of

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. The series was developed in conjunction with the estate of Sir

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. Lane had already shown an extensive knowledge of the Holmes character and continuity in his Virgin Books novel ''

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'' in which he created The Library of St. John the Beheaded as a meeting place for the worlds of Sherlock Holmes and ''Doctor Who''. The first book in the 'Young Sherlock Holmes' series – ''

Death Cloud ''Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud'' is the first novel in the Young Sherlock Holmes series that depicts Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes as a teenager in the 1860s and 70s. It was written by Andrew Lane and released in the U ...

'' – was published in the United Kingdom in June 2010 (February 2011 in the United States), with the second – '' Red Leech'' – published in the United Kingdom in November of that year (with a United States publication date under the title ''Rebel Fire'' of February 2012). The third book – ''

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'' – was published in June 2011 in the UK while the fourth book – ''Fire Storm'' – was published originally in hardback in October 2011 with a paperback publication in March 2012. The fifth book, ''

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'' was published in hardback in October 2012 and the sixth book, '' Knife Edge'' was published in September 2013. ''Death Cloud'' was short-listed for both the 2010 North East Book Award. (coming second by three votes) and the 2011 Southampton's Favourite Book Award. ''Black Ice'' won the 2012 Centurion Book Award. Early in 2012, Macmillan Children's Books announced that they would be publishing a new series by Lane, beginning in 2013.http://www.thebookseller.com/news/mcb-scoops-three-young-sherlock-author.html The ''Lost World'' books will follow disabled 15-year-old Calum Challenger, who is coordinating a search from his London bedroom to find creatures considered so rare that many do not believe they exist. Calum's intention is to use the creatures' DNA to help protect the species, but also to search for a cure for his own paralysis. His team comprises a computer hacker, a free runner, an ex-marine and a pathological liar.

Personal life

Lane studied physics at the

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, where he was a contemporary and friend of writers

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and

Craig Hinton Craig Paul Alexander Hinton (7 May 1964 – 3 December 2006) was a British writer best known for his work on various spin-offs from the BBC Television series ''Doctor Who''. He also wrote articles for various science fiction magazines, and ...

. He worked for the

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during which time he lived in

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for 11 years; since 2012 he has lived with his wife and son in

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, England. He is represented by

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at United Agents.

Bibliography

Novels

Agent Without Licence

*''Agent Without Licence'' (July 2018) *''Last Safe Moment'' (October 2018) *''Last Boy Standing'' (January 2019) *''Last Day on Earth'' (July 2019)

The Six Directions Sequence

*''Netherspace'' (May 2017) (with Nigel Foster) *''Originators'' (November 2018) (with Nigel Foster) *''Revelations'' (May 2021) written by Nigel Foster alone

Crusoe

*''Dawn of Spies'' (Mar 2016) *''Day of Ice'' (Mar 2017) *''Night of Terror'' (Mar 2018)

Lost Worlds

*'' Lost Worlds'' (2013) *'' Shadow Creatures'' (2014)

Young Sherlock Holmes

*''

'' (2010) *'' Red Leech'' (2010) *''

'' (2011) *''

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'' (2011) *''

'' (2012) *''Knife Edge'' (2013) *''Stone Cold'' (2014) *''Night Break'' (2015)

Virgin Books Doctor Who New Adventures

*'' Lucifer Rising'' (1993) (with

Jim Mortimore Jim Mortimore is a British science fiction writer, who has written several spin-off novels for popular television series, principally ''Doctor Who'', but also ''Farscape'' and ''Babylon 5''. When BBC Books cancelled his ''Doctor Who'' novel ''Cam ...

) *''

'' (1994) *''

Original Sin Original sin is the Christian doctrine that holds that humans, through the fact of birth, inherit a tainted nature in need of regeneration and a proclivity to sinful conduct. The biblical basis for the belief is generally found in Genesis 3 (t ...

'' (1995)

Virgin Books Doctor Who Missing Adventures

*''

The Empire of Glass ''The Empire of Glass'' is a Virgin Missing Adventures original novel written by Andy Lane based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It features the First Doctor, Steven Taylor, Vicki and Irving Braxiate ...

'' (1995)

BBC Books Eighth Doctor Who Adventures

*'' The Banquo Legacy'' (2000) (with

)

Torchwood

*''

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'' (2007)

Other television-related novels and novelisations

*'' Bugs'' : A Sporting Chance (1996) *'' Randall and Hopkirk: Ghost in the Machine'' (2000)

Film- and television-related non-fiction

*''The Babylon File'' (1997) *''The Bond Files: The Unofficial Guide to Ian Fleming's

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'' (1998) (with Paul Simpson) *''The Babylon File: Volume 2'' (1999) *''

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) ''Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)'' is a British private detective television series, starring Mike Pratt and Kenneth Cope respectively as the private detectives Jeff Randall and Marty Hopkirk. The series was created by Dennis Spooner and pro ...

– The Files'' (2001) *''The World of

Austin Powers ''Austin Powers'' is a series of American spy action comedy films: '' Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery'' (1997), '' Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me'' (1999) and ''Austin Powers in Goldmember'' (2002). The films were produced an ...

'' (2002) *''Creating

Creature Comforts ''Creature Comforts'' is a British adult stop-motion comedy mockumentary franchise originating in a 1989 British humorous animated short film of the same name. The film matched animated zoo animals with a soundtrack of people talking about th ...

'' (2003) *''The World of

Wallace and Gromit ''Wallace & Gromit'' is a British stop-motion comedy franchise created by Nick Park of Aardman Animations. The series consists of four short films and one feature-length film, and has spawned numerous spin-offs and TV adaptations. The series c ...

'' (2004) *''The World of

The Magic Roundabout ''The Magic Roundabout'' is an English-language children's television programme that ran from 1965 to 1977. It used the footage of the French stop motion animation show ''Le Manège enchanté'' but with completely different scripts and characte ...

'' (2005) (with Paul Simpson) *''The Art of Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'' (2005) (with Paul Simpson)

Short stories

*'Living in the Past' (in ''Doctor Who Magazine'', Issue 162, July 1990) *'Crawling From the Wreckage' (in ''The Ultimate Witch'', Dell 1993) *'The More Things Change' (in ''Doctor Who Yearbook'', 1994) *'Lovers, and Other Strangers' (in ''Interzone'', issue 87, September 1994) *'Fallen Angel' (in ''Decalog'', Virgin 1994) *'It's Only a Game' (in ''Doctor Who Yearbook'', 1995) *'Faceless in Ghazar' (in ''Blake's Seven Poster Magazine'', Issue 2, Jan 1995) *'The Old, Old Story' (in ''The Ultimate Dragon'', 1995) *'Saving Face' (in ''Full Spectrum 5'', 1995) *'Where the Heart Is' (in ''Decalog 2'', 1995) *'Four Angry Mutants' (with Rebecca Levene) (in ''The Ultimate X-Men'', 1996) *'Dependence Day' (with Justin Richards) (in ''Decalog 4'', 1997) *'No Experience Necessary' (in ''Odyssey'' issue 2, 1997) *'As Near to Flame as Lust to Smoke' (in ''Shakespearean Detectives'', 1998) *'The Gaze of the Falcon' (in ''The Mammoth Book of Royal Whodunnits'', 1998) *'Blood on the Tracks' (in ''Bernice Summerfield – Missing Adventures'', 2007) *'Only Connect' (in '' Short Trips: Transmissions'', 2008) *'The Beauty of Our Weapons' (in ''Torchwood Yearbook'', 2008) *'Who by Fire?' (in ''

Torchwood Magazine ''Torchwood – The Official Magazine'' was a British magazine devoted to the BBC science fiction television series ''Torchwood''. The first issue was released on 24 January 2008 and concluded on 16 December 2010 The United States version was du ...

'', Issue 14; 2009) *'Closing Time' (in ''Torchwood Magazine'', Issues 16 & 17; 2009) *'The Audience of the Dead' (in ''The Strand Magazine'', Issue 34, June–Sept 2011) *'Bedlam' (a Young Sherlock Holmes short story published exclusively for the Kindle ebook reader, Dec 2011) *'The Preservation of Death' (in ''The Strand Magazine'', Issue unknown, 2013) *'The Curious Case of the Compromised Card Files' (in ''The Further Encounters of Sherlock Holmes'', March 2014, expanded from a piece written for a Barclay's Bank internal document in 2011) *'Blood Relations' (in ''Sharkpunk!'', Snowbooks, planned for May 2015) *'Shine A Light' (in ''The X-Files, Volume 2'', IDW, planned for late 2015) *'Flickering Flame' (in '' Cwej: Down the Middle'', October 2020)

Television

Space Island One ''Space Island One'' (or ''Raumstation Unity'' in German) is a British/German science fiction television series that ran for 26 episodes beginning in 1998. A co-production between the UK's Sky One channel and the German Vox channel, it starred J ...

*'Awakenings' (story) (1998) *'Mayfly' (script) (1998) *'Money Makes the World Go Around' (story) (1998)

Audio

Doctor Who

*The Companion Chronicles: ‘ Here There Be Monsters' (June 2008) *The Companion Chronicles: ‘ The Mahogany Murderers' (June 2009) *

A Thousand Tiny Wings ''Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures'', formerly titled the ''Main Range'', is a series that consists of full-cast audio dramas based on the British science fiction television programme '' Doctor Who'', produced by Nicholas Briggs and Big Finis ...

(April 2010) *

Paradise 5 ''Doctor Who: The Lost Stories'' is a sci-fi audio series produced by Big Finish Productions of ''Doctor Who'' audio plays adapted from unused TV stories. Episodes Series 1 (2009–10) The first series is largely adapted from stories planned for ...

(with P.J. Hammond) (April 2010) *Jago & Litefoot 1.4: '

The Similarity Engine ''Jago & Litefoot'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It stars Christopher Benjamin and Trevor Baxter as Henry Gordon Jago and Professor George Litefoo ...

' (June 2010) *Jago & Litefoot 2.4: '

The Ruthven Inheritance ''Jago & Litefoot'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. It stars Christopher Benjamin and Trevor Baxter as Henry Gordon Jago and Professor George Litef ...

' (January 2011) *Jago & Litefoot 3.4: ' Chronoclasm' (June 2011) *Jago & Litefoot 8.2: 'The Backwards Men' (October 2014) *The Havoc of Empires (early 2015)

Blake's Seven

*Corners of the Mind (planned for some time in 2015)

Journalism

Lane has written articles, reviews and interviews for various magazines, including: ''DreamWatch'', ''

Radio Times ''Radio Times'' (currently styled as ''RadioTimes'') is a British weekly listings magazine devoted to television and radio programme schedules, with other features such as interviews, film reviews and lifestyle items. Founded in May 1923 by J ...

'', ''SFX'', ''

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'', ''Star Trek Magazine'', ''Star Wars Magazine'', ''Star Wars Fact Files'' and ''

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'' (United States).

References

External links

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