Doctor Who_ The King of Terror - Keith Topping [119]
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About the Author
A full-time survivor, Keith Topping was born in 1963 in Newcastle upon Tyne, part of England’s grim industrial north, on the very day that his beloved United lost 3-2 at home to Northampton Town. Things haven’t improved much since.
Keith has written extensively for numerous music, television and sport magazines and is a former contributing editor on Dream Watch. First published in 1993 as one of the authors of The Guinness Book of Classic British TV, Keith subsequently coauthored twelve books including The Doctor Who Discontinu-ity Guide, The New Trek Programme Guide, The Avengers Dossier, two editions of X-Treme Possibilities – A Paranoid Rummage Through The X-Files, the critically acclaimed Shut It! – A Fans Guide to 70s Cops on the Box (‘Book of the Month’ in Loaded magazine) and – with Martin Day – the Doctor Who novels The Devil Goblins from Neptune and The Hollow Men. Keith’s first solo publica-tion was Slayer – The Totally Cool Unofficial Guide to Buffy (whose release on 6 January 2000 made him ‘the first Virgin of the new millennium’). The King of Terror is his debut solo novel.
Keith also writes and performs stand-up and has written radio comedy and an (unproduced) stage play. A failed pop star at the age of fourteen in the never-legendary Slime, he lives, works and occasionally sleeps on Tyneside.
He likes extremely loud pop music, 1960s British horror movies, trashy SF-TV, chicken and king prawn curries, travel and socialising with friends.
You can visit Keith’s website at http://www.keithtopping.com.
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Document Outline
Front Cover
Contents
Start!
Prologue: Toy Soldier
Second Prologue: Time as an Abstract
I: All the King's Men 1: Yesterday's Men
2: Safe European Home
3: Kill Surf City
4: California
5: Turn Left at the Rising Sun
6: Bittersweet Symphony
7: UNIT Cutaway
8: Semantic Spaces
II: King for a Day 9: A Man Out of Time
10: Bring on the Dancing Horses
11: The Girl Looked at Johnny
12: Beyond Belief
13: Strange Town
14: Treason (It's Just a Story)
15: Surfing Blind
16: Naked Eye
III: O, King of Chaos! 17: Submission
18: Destiny Calling
19: Bring It On Down
20: Screen Kiss
21: Fear of a Dead Planet
22: Holes
23: Waiting for Today to Happen
24: Maybe Tomorrow
Coded Messages
Epilogue: Time's Up
Second Epilogue: Complete Control
Thank You (Fallettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
About the Author
Back Cover
Table of Contents
Prologue
Part One
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Part Two
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Part three
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Epilogue