SHORT STORIES
BBC BOOKS RRP £6.99
"I like short stories,” says the Doctor, in the fittingly titled Once Upon a Time. Originally published in the 2009 Doctor Who Annual, and reproduced in this new anthology, it chronicles an encounter with an alien parasite that survives by feeding on ideas. “He hasn’t got writer’s block,” explains the Doctor, as the creature’s luckless host slumps at his keyboard. “He’s got too many ideas to choose from.”