Telos Publishing
Telos Publishing Ltd. is a publishing company, originally established by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker, with their first publication being a horror anthology based on the television series Urban Gothic in 2001. The name comes from that of the fictional planet Telos from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
History
Since being formed, Telos Publishing Ltd. has published a wide variety of works, from original novellas based on Doctor Who to original horror and fantasy novels. They also produce a variety of unofficial guide books to popular television and film series, as well as the Time Hunter series of novellas. Starburst magazine called them "perhaps the UK's best-known independent publishers of Doctor Who books".[1]
Telos have employed many unknown writers, in addition to works by established and award-winning authors.
Telos, and its co-founders, have been nominated for a variety of awards in their own right, such as the Canadian Prix Aurora Award,[2] and the British Fantasy Awards, where they won the PS Publishing Award for Best Small Press in 2010[3] and 2011.[4] One of their publications, the Doctor Who novella Small Gods by Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman, won an Aurealis Award for Best Australian Science Fiction Novel, the first television tie-in to receive a major science-fiction award.[5] Christopher Fowler's novella Breathe won the British Fantasy Society Award for best novella in 2005.[6] In 2006, Telos' founders Howe and Walker won the World Fantasy Award for Best Non-Professional for their publishing work.[7]
Authors of note published by Telos
Authors published by Telos Publishing have included Juliette Benzoni, William S Burroughs, Simon Clark, Paul Finch, Christopher Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Hank Janson, Tanith Lee, George Mann, Graham Masterton, Fiona Moore, Simon Morden, Mike Ripley, Alan Stevens, Sam Stone, and co-founders Stephen James Walker and David J. Howe.
List of Doctor Who novellas
Time Hunter novellas
A series focused on "time sensitive" Honoré Lechasseur and "time channeler" Emily Blandish, characters first introduced in Telos' Doctor Who novella The Cabinet of Light.
- The Winning Side by Lance Parkin (November 2003)
- The Tunnel at the End of the Light by Stefan Petrucha| (March 2004)
- The Clockwork Woman by Claire Bott (June 2004)
- Kitsune by John Paul Catton (October 2004)
- The Severed Man by George Mann (December 2004)
- Echoes by Iain McLaughlin and Claire Bartlett (April 2005)
- Peculiar Lives by Philip Purser-Hallard (July 2005)
- Deus Le Volt by Jon de Burgh Miller (January 2006)
- The Albino's Dancer by Dale Smith (June 2006)
- The Sideways Door by R.J. Carter and Troy Riser (August 2006)
- Child of Time by George Mann and David J Howe (August 2007)
References
- ↑ Southall, J.R. (30 March 2012). "Books! The Best Weapons In The World! - A Guide to Independent Doctor Who Publishing". Starburst. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
- ↑ Willett, Edward. "Prix Aurora Awards nominees (so far) include several SF Canada members". SF Canada. Archived from the original on 28 June 2013. Retrieved 1 May 2013. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Frei, Elaine. "British Fantasy Award winners are announced". Chronicles. Archived from the original on 15 April 2013. Retrieved 1 May 2013. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "And the winners are … BFA winners announced!". British Fantasy Society. Archived from the original on 6 August 2022. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
- ↑ Juddery, Mark (1 January 2005). "The spin-off doctors". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
- ↑ "The British Fantasy Awards". Archived from the original on 2006-12-05. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "2006 World Fantasy Award Winners & Nominees". World Fantasy. Archived from the original on 22 July 2007. Retrieved 1 May 2013. Unknown parameter
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