Blue Box (Doctor Who)

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Doctor Who book

Blue Box
Series	Past Doctor Adventures
Release number	59
Featuring	Sixth Doctor Peri
Writer	Kate Orman
Publisher	BBC Books
ISBN	ISBN 0-563-53859-7
Set between	After The Two Doctors
Number of pages	288
Release date	March 2003
Preceded by	'Fear of the Dark'
Followed by	'Loving the Alien'

Blue Box is a BBC Books original novel written by Kate Orman and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Sixth Doctor and Peri, written from a first-person perspective by a fictional journalist, in a similar manner to Who Killed Kennedy by David Bishop. The character Ian Mond is named after a well-known fan who is a member of various internet forums including Jade Pagoda and the Outpost Gallifrey forums.

The title of this novel does not refer to the TARDIS, but to the blue box used by phreakers, and by analogy, the alien hacking tool that is the book's MacGuffin.

Like all Doctor Who spin-off media, the way the plot fits in to the ongoing story of television series is open to interpretation. See Whoniverse#Inclusion and canonicity