Update.
Today sees the release of the first Big Finish box-set
featuring the ‘Paternoster Gang’ of Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint and Strax the
Sontaran, characters who featured in Doctor
Who from 2011 to 2014. The first
story in the box-set is one of mine, entitled The Cars That Ate London. The title is, of course, inspired by the 1974
film The Cars That Ate Paris, though
the story isn’t. Instead, it is a story about a Nikola Tesla-esque scientist
who intends to save the environment by bringing in electrical cars rather than
those based around the internal combustion engine... When I came up with the
story I’d just watched a documentary about Nikola Tesla on Netflix, and script editor Matt Fitton suggested including electric
cars as they were (surprisingly) quite common in the late 19th century.
I witter on about the story more here, as well as in the
previews in Vortex and Doctor Who Magazine. The box-set can be
ordered here.
Also it would be remiss of me not to mention that the latest
issue of Doctor Who Magazine contains
the twenty-first Blog of Doom. And
they said it wouldn’t last. In fact, they begged. But still it endures.
Anyway, I hope all the people who buy the Paternoster Gang
box-set enjoy it, and I look forward to seeing what other writers come up with
in the later episodes as they get a chance to subvert the format and dig deeper
into the characters.
