| BEN AARONOVITCH wrote two Doctor Who serials in the late 1980s. His first, Remembrance of the Daleks, opened the twenty-fifth anniversary season in 1988; he followed it next year with Battlefield. Ben also wrote for Virgin Publishing's New Adventures range of Doctor Who novels, and has written Genius Loci, a Bernice Summerfield novel for Big Finish. Gone Fishing is his first Doctor Who fiction since 1997's So Vile a Sin.
JOFF BROWN has worked on numerous video-game magazines, and now edits children's educational titles. This his second Doctor Who story, following Danse Macabre in Short Trips: The History of Christmas (2005).
ANDREW CARTMEL was script editor for three turbulent years on Doctor Who, as detailed in his book Script Doctor. Since then he has worked as script editor on the television dramas Casualty and Dark Knight, successfully mounted a stage thriller on the London Fringe (End of the Night) and written a number of novels, including Doctor Who titles for Virgin Publishing and BBC Books, as well as Winter For the Adept, a Doctor Who audio drama for Big Finish. His other books include a history of Doctor Who on television entitled Through Time. His most recent novel, Miss Freedom, based on the classic television series The Prisoner, will be published in late 2006.
JONATHAN CLEMENTS is the writer of the popular Doctor Who Unbound: Sympathy for the Devil, UNIT: Snake Head and numerous episodes in Big Finish's 2000 AD range. A former anime translator and dubbing director, he is also the author of Coxinga and the Fall of the Ming Dynasty, A Brief History of the Vikings, Confucius, The Moon in the Pines and Strontium Dog: Ruthless. He was the award-winning editor of Manga Max magazine, and a translator, presenter or consultant on TV programmes including Saiko Exciting (Sci Fi), Godzilla: King of the Monsters (BBC2), Japanorama (BBC3) and The South Bank Show (ITV). His website is .
SIMON GUERRIER (editor) has written five audio plays for Big Finish - UNIT: The Coup, Professor Bernice Summerfield and The Lost Museum, Doctor Who: The Settling, Sapphire & Steel: The School and Bernice Summerfield and The Summer of Love. He has edited five short-story anthologies, including Short Trips: The History of Christmas. His novel, The Time Travellers, was published by BBC Books in 2005.
MARC PLATT wrote the 1989 Doctor Who story Ghost Light (which he also novelised) and the Doctor Who novels Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible and Lungbarrow. For Big Finish, he's written the audio dramas Loups-Garoux, Spare Parts, Auld Mortality and A Storm of Angels, as well as a number of short stories. For Noise Monster, he's written the audio play Space 1889: The Siege of Alclyon.
PHILIP PURSER-HALLARD is the author of - amongst other things - a novel dealing with politics and terrorism in the afterlife; a novella about superhumans, posthumans and eugenics; a doctoral thesis exploring religious themes in science fiction; a Shakespearean 'hard alchemical fiction' story set on the Moon in 1590; and a story called Sex Secrets of the Robot Replicants. The Ruins of Time is Philip's second Doctor Who piece for Big Finish, and his first to feature William Hartnell's original Doctor, whose TV adventures he very much enjoyed 'researching'.
EDDIE ROBSON's writing output includes, but is not limited to, books about film noir, the Coen brothers and Doctor Who; scripts for the comics anthologies FutureQuake, Alien Safeword and Just 1 Page; miscellaneous stuff for SFX, Starburst and Cult Times; walkthrough guides to computer games; and, on one occasion, The Week In Sport for The Guardian. This is his sixth Short Trip. His first audio play for Big Finish is Doctor Who: Memory Lane. He lives in Lancaster.
MATTHEW SWEET is a writer and broadcaster who holds a doctorate from Oxford University for work on Wilkie Collins. He has been a director's assistant at the Royal Shakespeare Company, film critic of the Independent on Sunday and a columnist for the Big Issue. For three days a week he is a reporter for BBC2's The Culture Show and a presenter of Radio 3's Night Waves. The rest of the week he spends engaged in activities involving plasticine and paint and the singing of Wind the Bobbin Up. He has edited Collins's The Woman in White for Penguin Classics and is author of Inventing the Victorians (Faber and Faber, 2001) and Shepperton Babylon: The Lost Worlds of British Cinema (Faber and Faber, 2005). His television films and series include Shepperton Babylon, Silent Britain (both BBC Four) and Checking into History (Channel 4). He is also responsible for the Big Finish Doctor Who audio play Year of the Pig.
BEN WOODHAMS has previously written two short stories for Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield range. When he's not watching or reading Doctor Who in darkest Cornwall, he's working as a parliamentary reporter. This is his first published Doctor Who fiction.
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