Keith Topping
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Keith Topping (born 1963 in Tyneside) is a writer most associated with his work relating to the BBC Television series Doctor Who and for writing several unofficial guide books to a variety of television and film series.
[edit] Work
Topping's first published fiction was the BBC Books "Past Doctor Adventure" The Devil Goblins from Neptune, published in 1997. The novel was co-written with Martin Day, and the pair quickly returned with the novel The Hollow Men in 1998. Following this, Keith went on to write the novels The King of Terror (2000) and Byzantium! (2001) on his own: the latter novel is the only BBC Books Past Doctor Adventure to be set entirely within one episode of the television series Doctor Who - 1965's The Romans by Dennis Spooner. Keith also wrote the Telos Doctor Who novella Ghost Ship which was published in 2002 and proved so popular that it was one of only two novellas reissued as a paperback edition in 2003.
As well as writing fiction, Keith has also written several unofficial guide books to television series such as The X Files, The Avengers, The Sweeney and The Professionals. These were usually published by Virgin, and co-written with Martin Day and Paul Cornell. Topping, Day and Cornell also collaborate to write the popular Doctor Who Discontinuity Guide, published by Virgin in 1995 as a lighthearted guide to the mistakes and incongruities of the television series. Keith has also written The Complete Slayer: An Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to Every Episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and a number of related texts.
