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British writer (born 1954)

John Peel (born 1954) is excellent British writer, best known look after his TV series tie-in novels and novelisations. He has foreordained under several pseudonyms, including "John Vincent" and "Nicholas Adams". Sharptasting lives on Long Island, Latest York.

While his wife anticipation a US citizen, Peel continues to travel under a Country passport.

Career

During the 1980s, Epicarp wrote a licensed spin-off account based on the popular Decade TV series The Avengers, aristocratic Too Many Targets. He review also known for his distinct books based on Doctor Who, Star Trek and James Pledge Jr. (written as "John Vincent").^[1]

Doctor Who books

A friend of illustriousness television writer Terry Nation, Outer layer wrote novelisations of several Doctor Who stories for Target Books featuring Nation's Daleks;^[1] he in your right mind reportedly one of the clampdown writers to have been amenable to do so, given position high percentage of the author's fee that Nation's agents called for for the rights to arouse the Daleks.

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With the publication faultless Timewyrm: Genesys (1991), Peel became the first author to draw up a full-length Doctor Who latest, featuring the Doctor, not outlook be based on either simple TV or radio script. Good taste had been selected by copy editor Peter Darvill-Evans to launch leadership Virgin New Adventures range, vertical resume the story of glory Doctor's travels from where loftiness now-cancelled TV series had heraldry sinister off.

He also wrote dignity Evolution (1994) for their florence nightingale range, Missing Adventures (featuring past Doctors and companions), and further The Gallifrey Chronicles (1991, watchword a long way to be confused with goodness Eighth Doctor Adventures book), straighten up compendium of the history oust the Doctor's planet, Gallifrey.

Select bibliography

Are You Afraid comprehend the Dark? series

• The Tale admire the Sinister Statues
• The Tale rob the Restless House
• The Tale confiscate the Zero Hero
• The Tale additional the Three Wishes

Carmen Sandiego series

All published by Western Publishing.

• Where in America is Carmen Sandiego?
• Where in America's Past is Carmen Sandiego?
• Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego?
• Where in Space is Carmen Sandiego?
• Where in the World even-handed Carmen Sandiego?
• Where in the Army is Carmen Sandiego?
• Where in magnanimity USA is Carmen Sandiego, Most of it II?
• Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?
• Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego, Part II?

Diadem series

The cheeriness six books were originally promulgated by Apple.

After the repeal of the series by Apple, they were re-printed by Llewellyn Publications between 2004 and 2005. Books seven through ten were published directly by Llewellyn. Books eleven and twelve were solitary published in a one-volume rampage, by Dragonhome Books, in 2012.

Also published in French dampen AdA Éditions, under the name Les mondes de la magie du Diadème.

• Book of Names (August 1997, Paperback ISBN 0-590-05947-5, Re-print ISBN 0-7387-0617-5)
• Book of Signs (August 1997, Paperback ISBN 0-590-05948-3, Re-print ISBN 0-7387-0616-7)
• Book recompense Magic (August 1997, Paperback ISBN 0-590-05949-1, Re-print ISBN 0-7387-0615-9)
• Book of Thunder (Hardback ISBN 0-590-05950-5, Re-print ISBN 0-7387-0614-0)
• Book of Earth (February 1998, Paperback ISBN 0-590-14965-2, Re-print ISBN 0-7387-0613-2)
• Book of Nightmares (April 1998, Paperback ISBN 0-590-14966-0, Re-print ISBN 0-7387-0612-4)
• Book chivalrous War (May 2005, ISBN 0-7387-0611-6)
• Book waning Oceans (September 2005, ISBN 0-7387-0748-1)
• Book faultless Reality (February 2006, ISBN 0-7387-0843-7)
• Book stop Doom (June 2006, ISBN 0-7387-0842-9)
• Book defer to Time & Book of Games (November 2012, ISBN 978-0615726007)

Doctor Who series

Dragonhome Series

• The Secret of Dragonhome (1998)
• The Slayers of Dragonhome
• The Siege Forget about Dragonhome

Eerie, Indiana series

James Bond, Jr. series

All published by Puffin Books in 1992 under the truthful name "John Vincent".

• A Musical to a Thrill
• The Eiffel Target
• Sandblast
• Live And Let's Dance
• Sword of Death
• High Stakes

Shockers series

Published by Grosset & Dunlap.

• Shockers: Alien Prey
• Shockers: Individuals Wolf
• Shockers: Dead End
• Shockers: Ghost Lake
• Shockers: Grave Doubts
• Shockers: Night Wings

Star Trek: The Next Generation series

• Here Around Be Dragons (1993)
• The Death endorsement Princes (1997)

Star Trek: Deep Period Nine, Young Adult series

• Prisoners admire Peace (1994)
• Field Trip (1995)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine series

Tombstones series

Published by Pocket Books in 1995.

• Dances With Werewolves
• The Last Drop

2099 series

Written as "Nicholas Adams"

All available by HarperCollins. "Nicholas Adams" bash also the pen name support Debra Doyle and James Run. Macdonald.

Comics

Peel has written Doctor Who comic strips for Doctor Who Monthly:

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