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  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409071808
  • Imprint: BBC Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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Torchwood: Consequences




The team become entangled in time in this collection of short stories from the bestselling Torchwood range

Saving the planet, watching over the Rift, preparing the human race for the twenty-first century... Torchwood has been keeping Cardiff safe since the late 1800s. Small teams of heroes, working 24/7, encountering and containing the alien, the bizarre and the inexplicable.

But Torchwood do not always see the effects of their actions. What links the Rules and Regulations for replacing a Torchwood leader to the destruction of a supermarket? How does a witness to an alien's reprisals against Torchwood become caught up in a night of terror in a university library? And why should Gwen and Ianto's actions at a local publisher's affect Torchwood more than a century earlier?

For Torchwood, the past will always catch up with them. And sometimes the future will catch up with the past...

Featuring sci-fi stories by writers for the hit Torchwood series created by Russell T Davies for BBC Television, including James Moran and Joseph Lidster, plus Andrew Cartmel, Sarah Pinborough and David Llewellyn.

  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409071808
  • Imprint: BBC Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
Categories:

About the authors

Joseph Lidster

Joseph Lidster is a screenwriter and playwright from Yorkshire. He started his career writing audio drama before moving into television in 2008 — his debut script was for the second series of Torchwood. Since then, he has written primarily for children’s television, including scripts for The Sarah Jane Adventures, Hetty Feather and The Dumping Ground. Joseph has also written for several multimedia projects, including official tie-in websites for Doctor Who, the Dinosaurs in the Wild touring immersive adventure experience, and the Webby Award-winning Sherlock Live for the BBC.

Joseph has written over 15 Audio Plays for the DOCTOR WHO, SAPHIRE AND STEEL and THE TOMORROW PEOPLE titles, amongst others. All of them were written for Big Finish Productions between 2001 and 2007.

Joseph has written a number of Short Stories for the DOCTOR WHO: SHORT TRIPS series as well as a Novella, all for Big Finish Productions. He also had the role of Short Story Collection Editor for Big Finish Productions in 2007.

Andrew Cartmel

Andrew Cartmel is a British author and journalist. He was also the script editor of Doctor Who from 1987 to 1989. He has worked as a script editor on other television series, as a magazine editor, as a comics writer, as a film studies lecturer, and as a novelist.

Sarah Pinborough

Sarah Pinborough is the author of five horror novels, two of which have been short-listed for the British Fantasy Society Award for Best Novel in 2007 and 2008. Sarah currently lives and works in Milton Keynes. You can find out more about Sarah at www.sarahpinborough.com.

David Llewellyn

David Llewellyn was born in Pontypool in 1978. He is the author of six novels - Eleven, Torchwood: Trace Memory, The Taking of Chelsea 426, Night of the Humans, Everything Is Sinister and Ibrahim & Reenie - and has also written several audio dramas for Big Finish. He lives in Cardiff.

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