Martin Day
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Martin Day (born 1968) is a novelist and screenwriter most known for his work on various spin-offs related to the BBC Television series Doctor Who, and several episodes of the daytime soaps Doctors and Family Affairs.
[edit] Work
Day's first published fiction was the novel The Menagerie in 1995, published by Virgin Publishing as part of their Doctor Who Missing Adventures series. Following the withdrawal of Virgin's licence to produce Doctor Who novels, Day moved to BBC Books, who published the novel The Devil Goblins from Neptune in 1997. The novel (co-written with Keith Topping) was the first of BBC Books' Past Doctor Adventures series, and was quickly followed by The Hollow Men in 1998 - again written with Keith Topping. 1998 also saw the publication of Another Girl, Another Planet by Virgin Publishing. Co-written with Steve Bowkett (under the pseudonym Len Beech), this was one of the first books in Virgin's line of Bernice Summerfield novels.
Following these novels, Day returned to solo writing, and returned to the Past Doctor Adventures range in 2001 with the novel Bunker Soldiers. This was followed in 2004 by the novel The Sleep of Reason, one of the final Eighth Doctor Adventures to be published and perhaps his most popular novel.
As well as writing fiction, Day 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 Keith Topping and Paul Cornell. Topping, Day and Cornell also collaborate to write the extremely popular Doctor Who Discontinuity Guide, published by Virgin in 1995 as a light-hearted guide to the mistakes and incongruities of the television series.
Day has also been commissioned to write for Big Finish Productions' audio adventures range, with the play No Man's Land featuring the Seventh Doctor.
