Virgin Decalog

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Decalog

The first volume of stories published was ''Decalog'' (Virgin, 1994), edited by Mark Stammers and Stephen James Walker . It contained the following stories:

The Story ''Playback'' by Stephen James Walker was a short linking piece that recurred between the other stories, detailing the story of an amnesiac claiming to be the Doctor having his memories restored by going through the items in his pockets: each item relates to one of the stories.

Decalog 2: Lost Property

The next volume was ''Decalog 2: Lost Property'' (Virgin Publishing, 1995 ), again edited by Mark Stammers and Stephen James Walker. This volume abandoned the linking story concept used in ''Decalog'', and instead concentrated on having all its stories written on the same theme – a property that the Doctor own somewhere or when in the universe. It contained the stories:

Decalog 3: Consequences

The final Decalog collection before Virgin lost their licence to use Doctor Who characters was called ''Decalog 3: Consequences'' (Virgin Publishing, 1996), and was joint edited by Justin Richards and Andy Lane. It introduced a new idea for linking the stories whereby each story would contain an element from the previous and subsequent stories, and the first contained an element from the last and vice versa. It contained the following stories:

Decalog 4: Re-Generations

The first Decalog collection after Virgin lost their licence to use Doctor Who characters was called ''Decalog 4: Re-Generations'' (Virgin Publishing, May 1997 ), and was again joint edited by Justin Richards and Andy Lane. In order to try to keep the audience of previous Decalogs even though the Doctor could no longer appear in the stories, it was decided to theme the collection around the family history of one of the Doctor's more popular companions, Roz Forrester . As this companion was created by co-editor Andy Lane solely to appear in the '' Virgin New Adventures '', there were no copyright issues in including her. It contained the following stories:

Decalog 5: Wonders

The final Decalog collection was called ''Decalog 5: Wonders'' (Virgin Publishing, September 1997), and was jointly edited by Paul Leonard and Jim Mortimore. This time, there was only a very loose connection with ''Doctor Who'', as the theme was "the Ten Wonders of the Universe". However, a former companion, Bernice Summerfield (also created for the New Adventures), appears in the story ''The Judgement of Solomon'' by Lawrence Miles with permission from her creator Paul Cornell. The collection contained the following stories:

Following the publication of this book, Virgin produced no further Decalog collections.

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