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Dave Stone (1964-) is an author. Stone is best known for his contributions to the Doctor Who and Judge Dredd series.

Life[]

Little is known about Stone's life. It is known that he was born in June of 1964 in England. Some of his first works were contributions to 2000 AD - including the much-maligned Soul Sisters series with David Bishop and artist Shaky Kane. Stone has described Soul Sisters as a comedic strip which "through various degrees of miscommunication ended up as a joke-strip without any jokes." Shortly after this, Stone started the more positively received Armitage series and wrote his first Judge Dredd novel for Virgin Publishing. Three years after publishing Deathmasques, Stone published his first Doctor Who novel for Virgin.

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Writing style[]

Stone is notable for his extremely surreal and "screwball" comedic writing style which is heavy on banter. This writing style is present in most, if not all, of his works and usually accents the darker notions of his writings. The end of the world is a common theme in his works (such as in Sky Pirates!, Oblivion, and Return to the Fractured Planet). Ridiculously unreal locations (such as the System from Sky Pirates!), anti-establishment themes, and drug use/psychedelia are also common in his works.

Characters of "uncommon" (for the times that Stone mainly worked in) sexuality and gender are common in Stone's works. These include the intersexual Sloathes from Sky Pirates! (who use hir/shi pronouns) and the black lesbian Treasure Steel from Stone's Armitage comics. The acknowledgements page of Sky Pirates! also lists "the LGB" (which most likely refers to what would be "The LGBT" since the "LGB without the T" movement started decades before Sky Pirates! was published). Indeed, Stone is genderfluid[1] and possibly asexual[2].

A common trope of Stone's work is the reuse of prose from other works. This includes direct quotes from Sky Pirates! being put into Oblivion and Golgotha Run including reworked material from Oblivion and Past Time Catching. Along with this, various names are repeated by Stone - including Mira, Volan, Sleed, Mr. Pelt/Jackie Pelt, and Queegvogel Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Seven.

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Notable works[]

  • Golgotha Run - a novel that ties into the Dark Future wargame

Doctor Who[]

Novels and novellas[]

  • Sky Pirates! or the Eyes of the Schirron - Stone's debut Doctor Who novel, on the chaotic end of the System and the hunt for the titular Eyes of the Schirron. Features the Seventh Doctor, Benny, Chris, and Roz (alongside the crew of the Schirron Dream for the first time).
  • Death and Diplomacy - on a war between factions within a stellar cluster. Features the same TARDIS crew from Sky Pirates! and introduces Jason Kane.
  • Burning Heart - originally supposed to be a crossover between Doctor Who and Judge Dredd. Shows mass chaos breaking out in a colony of the Earth Empire. Features the Sixth Doctor and Peri
  • Heart of TARDIS - Stone's first novel for BBC Books. Features the Second Doctor (alongside Jamie and Victoria) and the Fourth Doctor (alongside Romana I) facing off against two halves of a threat to reality
  • The Slow Empire - features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz, and Anji traversing the titular Slow Empire
  • Citadel of Dreams - Stone's only Doctor Who novella. Shows the Seventh Doctor and Ace visiting a surrealist city-state

Short stories[]

  • Moon Grafitti (in More Short Trips) - shows the Sixth Doctor and Peri travelling to the Moon in the far future
  • Past Time Catching (in Perfect Timing 2) - a short story which satirizes 50s pulp literature. Features the Seventh Doctor, Benny, and Chris being trapped in the pages of a magazine.
  • The Resurrection Event (in Walking in Eternity)
  • An Inconsequential Death (in Missing Pieces)
  • A Yuletide Tale (in A Christmas Treasury) - shows the Seventh Doctor and Ace travelling to a world built to ape the works of Charles Dickens

Judge Dredd[]

  • Deathmasques - Stone's debut novel. Shows Dredd and Armitage hunting an energy creature
  • The Medusa Seed - shows Dredd and Armitage hunting the real murderer Albert Fish
  • Wetworks - shows Judge Dredd being blinded by a conspiracy
  • Psykogeddon - shows the master-criminal Efil Drago San (a recurring villain created by Stone) demanding a trial

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Novels and novellas[]

  • Ship of Fools - shows Benny being trapped on a cruise-liner as a murderer stalks its decks
  • Oblivion - shows Benny (alongside the crew of the Schirron Dream, Jason, Chris, and a resurrected Roz) navigating a hellscape of alternate Earths
  • The Mary-Sue Extrusion - shows an Agent hunting for Benny after she wipes her mind to escape the All-High Gods
  • Return to the Fractured Planet - shows the Agent from Mary-Sue being reunited with Benny
  • Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Infernal Nexus - shows Benny rescuing her ex-husband Jason from Hell
  • The Two Jasons - a semi-sequel to Philip Purser-Hallard's short story Sex Secrets of the Robot Replicants

Audio dramas[]

  • Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Green-Eyed Monsters - shows Benny visiting the "Goronos system" to escape the psychological torment of being a new mother
  • The Worst Thing in the World - Shows Benny being trapped in a world which constantly produces media
  • The End of the World - shows the death of Jason Kane
  • Many Happy Returns (with Xanna Eve Chown, Stephen Cole, Paul Cornell, Stephen Fewell, Simon Guerrier, Scott Handcock, Rebecca Levene, Jacqueline Rayner, Justin Richards, Miles Richardson and Eddie Robson) - an anniversary special for Bernice Summerfield

Short stories[]

  • The Door into Bedlam (printed in The Dead Men Diaries) - shows Benny and Jason being briefly reunited
  • Alien Planets and You (printed in A Life of Surprises) - an article on alien planets
  • Suffer the Children (printed in Life During Wartime) - shows Benny investigating the disappearance of half-alien children
  • Zardox Break (printed in A Life in Pieces) - shows Benny and Jason taking a vacation
  • Jason and Pirates (printed in Parallel Lives) - shows Jason recounting a tale involving space pirates
  • Back and There Again (printed in Something Changed)
  • Oh No, Not Again (printed in In Time) - shows the "real" Dave Stone trying to recount a tale while being attacked by cyborgs

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  1. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1J6j4bWw9g/
  2. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1LZwUVDvs7/
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