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THE BOOKS Decalog The first volume of stories published was ''Decalog'' (Virgin, 17th March 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, 20th July 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 owns 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, 18th July 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: This was Steven Moffat's first ''Doctor Who'' work. He later went on to write for the 2005 revival of the television series. Jackie Marshall was an established writer of ''Doctor Who'' Fan Fiction at the time. 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, 15th 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 companion Roz Forrester . As this companion had been created by co-editor Andy Lane for 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, 18th September 1997), and was jointly edited by Paul Leonard and Jim Mortimore. This time, all but one story were free-standing science fiction pieces on the theme of "the Ten Wonders of the Universe". One story, ''The Judgement of Solomon'' by Lawrence Miles , however features another former New Adventures companion, Bernice Summerfield . The collection contained the following stories: Following the publication of this book, Virgin produced no further Decalog collections. SEE ALSO |
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