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The BBC ''Short Trips'' books are a collection of
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's '' Decalog'' collections. Three volumes were published between March 1998 and March 2000, before the
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decided to stop publishing the books. The ''Short Trips'' name was later adopted for hardback collections published by
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and licensed from the BBC.


The books


Short Trips

The first volume of stories is ''Short Trips'' (BBC Books, 1998), edited by Stephen Cole. It contains the following stories:


More Short Trips

The next volume is ''More Short Trips'' (BBC Books, 1999), again edited by Stephen Cole. It contains the stories:


Short Trips and Sidesteps

The final Short Trips collection is ''Short Trips and Sidesteps'' (BBC Books, 2000), and was joint edited by
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and Stephen Cole. It was intended to show a variety of stories of Doctors and companions that had not necessarily existed in the prime continuity of ''Doctor Who''. Several of the stories were written under
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s, including Tara Samms (Stephen Cole), David Agnew and Norman Ashby.
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wrote two pieces for the collection, one under his own name and one under a pseudonym. It contains the following stories: Following the publication of this book, the BBC announced that they were no longer going to produce volumes of short stories, due to the cost and amount of work involved in producing them.


Audio books

In 1998, the original ''Short Trips'' book was also released on a double
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as an audio book, featuring five stories from the book (''Freedom'', ''Model Train Set'', ''Glass'', ''Stop the Pigeon'' and ''Old Flames'') read by
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and
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. An additional story (''Degrees of Truth'' by David A. McIntee, featuring the Third Doctor and the Brigadier) is also on the release. ''Model Train Set'' was also released on CD as a BBC Audio. Two further audio book short story collections were released later that year. ''
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'' was read by
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, featuring "Dead Time" from ''More Short Trips'', "The People's Temple" from ''Short Trips'' and original story "Bounty." ''Out of the Darkness'' was read by
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, and features "Moon Graffiti" from ''More Short Trips'', "Wish You Were Here" from ''Short Trips'' and original story "Vigil". ''Earth and Beyond'' was released on double cassette, whilst ''Out of the Darkness'' was released on CD. Those readings were reissued in 2004 as part of the MP3-CD releases ''Tales from the TARDIS'' volumes 1 and 2. These were in turn re-released as box sets of standard audio CDs in 2016 and 2017.


References

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