David A. McIntee (born 31 December 1968) is a British writer.
Career
McIntee has written many spin-off novels based on the
BBC science fiction
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television series
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''
Doctor Who'', as well as one each based on ''
Final Destination'' and ''
Space: 1999''. He has also written a non-fiction book on ''
Star Trek: Voyager'' and one jointly on the ''
Alien'' and ''
Predator
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'' movie franchises. He has written several audio plays, and contributed to various magazines including ''
Dreamwatch'', ''
SFX
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Entertainment
* Special effects (usually visual), illusions used in film, television, and entertainment
* Sound effects, sounds that are artificially created or enhanced
* SFX (magazine), ''SFX'' (magazine), a British magazine c ...
'', ''
Star Trek Communicator
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'', Titan's ''
Star Trek Magazine
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'', ''
Death Ray'', and ''
The Official Star Wars Fact Files''. He currently writes for the UK's Asian-entertainment magazine, ''
Neo
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* Neo (''The Matrix''), the alias of Thomas Anderson, a hacker and the protagonist of the Matrix film series
* Neo (''Marvel Comics'' species), a fictional race of superhumans
* ...
''
Between 2006 and 2008, McIntee co-edited an anthology, ''Shelf Life'', in memory of fellow Doctor Who novelist
Craig Hinton, which was published in December 2008 to raise money for the
British Heart Foundation
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.
McIntee made the jump to ''
Star Trek
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'' fiction in October 2007, with "On The Spot", a story in the ''
Star Trek: The Next Generation'' anthology ''The Sky's The Limit''. This was followed with a novella in the anthology ''Seven Deadly Sins'' in March 2010.
In January 2008, Blue Water Productions began publishing ''The Kingdom of Hades'', a
comic book
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sequel to
Ray Harryhausen's 1963 movie ''
Jason and the Argonauts''. This is a five-issue series, though some early publicity erroneously quoted it as being four issues long. He is following this title with a four-issue mini-series, ''William Shatner Presents: Quest For Tomorrow''.
In 2009,
Abaddon Books published McIntee's ''The Light of Heaven'', an entry in the publisher's ''Twilight of Kerberos'' series.
In 2010,
Powys Media
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Geog ...
published McIntee's novel ''Space: 1999 Born for Adversity''.
In 2018,
Obverse Books published McIntee's first non-fiction for some years, an analysis of two stories from the
Sapphire and Steel television series in collaboration with his wife, Lesley, as part of their
Silver Archive series of monographs.
''Doctor Who'': ''Avatar''
In mid 1989, McIntee wrote a three-part serial entitled Doctor Who: Avatar,
[ List of unmade Doctor Who serials and films] is a story that features the Doctor and Ace encounter a zombie invasion during a
Lovecraftian horror experimentation in 1927.
This story was submitted for Season 27 of the program, but was announced in September 1989, the
BBC would cancel Doctor Who entirely after airing its
26 season,
[''A brief history of Doctor Who stories- The Lost Stories- Patrick Sullivan, Shannon''] due to the show having low ratings.
In June 1993, McIntee adapted the story as
''Doctor Who: White Darkness'', novelized by
Virgin Publishing's.
Bibliography
Doctor Who
Virgin New Adventures
* ''
White Darkness'' (1993)
* ''
First Frontier
''First Frontier'' is an original novel written by David A. McIntee and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It features the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice. A prelude to the novel, also penned b ...
'' (1994)
* ''
Sanctuary
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'' (1995)
Virgin Missing Adventures
* ''
Lords of the Storm
''Lords of the Storm'' is an original novel written by David A. McIntee and based on the long-running British science fiction on television, science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. The novel features the Fifth Doctor and Vislor Turloug ...
'' (1995)
* ''
The Shadow of Weng-Chiang'' (1996)
* ''
The Dark Path'' (1997)
Past Doctor Adventures
* ''
The Face of the Enemy'' (1998)
* ''
Mission: Impractical'' (1998)
* ''
The Wages of Sin'' (1999)
* ''
Bullet Time'' (2001)
* ''
The Eleventh Tiger'' (2004)
Eighth Doctor Adventures
* ''
Autumn Mist'' (1999)
Star Trek
* ''The Sky's The Limit'' story: "On The Spot". (
Pocket Books
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History
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, 2007)
* ''Seven Deadly Sins'' novella: ''Reservoir Ferengi.'' (
Pocket Books
Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books.
History
Pocket Books produced the first mass-market, pocket-sized paperback books in the United States in early 1939 and revolutionized the publishin ...
, 2010)
* ''Indistinguishable From Magic.'' (
Pocket Books
Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books.
History
Pocket Books produced the first mass-market, pocket-sized paperback books in the United States in early 1939 and revolutionized the publishin ...
, 2011)
Final Destination
* ''Destination Zero'' (2005)
Space: 1999
* ''Born For Adversity'' (2010)
Other novels
* ''Twilight of Kerberos: The Light of Heaven.'' (
Abaddon Books, 2009, )
Non-fiction
* ''Delta Quadrant: The Unofficial Guide to Voyager'' (
Virgin Books
Virgin Books is a British book publisher 90% owned by the publishing group Random House, and 10% owned by Virgin Group, the company originally set up by Richard Branson as a record company.
History
Virgin established its book publishing ar ...
, 2000)
* ''Beautiful Monsters: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to the Alien and Predator Films'' (Telos, 272 pages, 2005, )
* ''
The Silver Archive #1:
Sapphire and Steel Assignments 1 &
(2018)
Comics
* ''Ray Harryhausen Presents: Jason and the Argonauts – The Kingdom of Hades'' (with
Randy Kintz
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, 5-issue limited series,
Bluewater Productions
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, November 2007–)
* ''William Shatner Presents: Quest For Tomorrow'' (4-issue miniseries,
Bluewater Productions
TidalWave Productions (previously known as Bluewater Productions, StormFront Media/Publishing & Storm Entertainment) is an independent production studio of comic books and graphic novels. Based in Portland, Oregon, United States, Bluewater publis ...
, 2010)
Audios
Big Finish audio plays
* ''
Excelis Rising
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Overview
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'' (2002)
* ''
Unregenerate!'' (2005)
Other audio plays
* ''The Quality of Mercy'' (
BBV, 2003)
References
External links
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Blog
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Interviews
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1968 births
Living people
British comics writers
British science fiction writers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Writers of Doctor Who novels
20th-century British novelists
21st-century British novelists
20th-century British male writers
21st-century British male writers