| BENJAMIN ADAMS’s first encounter with the Doctor was in 1975, when at the tender age of nine he saw The Claws of Axos on KCET-TV Los Angeles. He’s never been the same since. His work appears in anthologies such as Short Trips: The Centenarian, Miskatonic University, Horrors! 365 Scary Stories and 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories. He was co-editor (with John Pelan) of the Del Rey Books anthology Children of Cthulhu, a Bram Stoker Award finalist for Best Horror Anthology. JOHN DAVIES’s first story for Big Finish (Dear John in Short Trips: The Centenarian) was described by Doctor Who Magazine as ‘captivatingly charming’ and by SFX as ‘the joy of Doctor Who in a nutshell’, so, understandably, he felt no pressure whatsoever in writing this story. Recently, he contributed a review of the 2006 Doctor Who episodes Army of Ghosts and Doomsday for online fanzine Shockeye’s Kitchen. BRIAN DOOLEY has written sketches for Monkey Dust, The Sketch Show and The Griff Rhys Jones Radio Show, among others, and dramas for Radio 4. His BBC sitcom, The Smoking Room, won him the New Writer BAFTA in 2005. More impressively, he once won the Crazy Caption Competition in Doctor Who Magazine. Endless scribbled stories in school notebooks aside, this is his first attempt at writing a Doctor Who story and he is very nervous about following in the footsteps of all those talented men and women who inspired him to write in the first place. Originally from Liverpool, Brian now lives in London. NIGEL FAIRS has had 26 of his theatre plays produced, including In Conversation with an Acid Bath Murderer, based on the true story of John Haigh (Norwich), My Mother was an Alien - is that why I’m gay?, about a depressive sci-fi fan (London fringe), the musical Oedipus the Queen (Brighton) and post-nuclear children’s play The Severed Branch (Horsham). His work for Big Finish includes writing eight Tomorrow People audio dramas, four for their Sapphire and Steel range and a Doctor Who audio called The Blue Tooth. Other writing work includes book reviews and articles for a variety of magazines, and a short story about an unhinged kids’ entertainer, Direst Cruelty, in GMP’s Death Comes Easy collection. He has also worked as an actor, composer, clown and psychodynamic counsellor. IAN FARRINGTON has compiled four Short Trips collections - Past Tense, Monsters, A Day in the Life and The Centenarian - and is the range editor of the series. He has also written for A Day in the Life, Short Trips: Life Science, Short Trips: Dalek Empire, and two anthologies in the Professor Bernice Summerfield range. He’s edited numerous other novels, short-story collections, script books and factual titles. Ian co-produced Big Finish’s UNIT audio series, and was the assistant producer of the company’s Doctor Who range from 2002 until 2006. He has also contributed to Doctor Who Magazine and is currently the sub editor of All About Soap. ANDY FRANKHAM-ALLEN has written for two previous Short Trips anthologies, as well as co-authoring a play for the short-lived Space 1889 series produced by Noise Monster Productions. With his successful ezine, Pantechnicon, Andy is pretty happy with how things are looking for the present. And, indeed, the future. JAMES GOSS has edited the BBC’s Doctor Who website, as well as writing for the torchwood.org.uk site. He’s the co-adapter of the stage version of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (‘wordy, overly complex’, Variety).
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