Doctor How’s famous megalomaniac brother Doctor Who sold his
fictional life story to the BBC half a century ago, painting himself as a lone
hero. Disillusioned, their four cousins dropped out. For fifty years, Doctor
How has held the line against the forces of darkness and stupidity. And he’s
not that happy, since you ask.
Illegal aliens
try to hack How’s Spectrel (TARDIS is a very rude word where he comes from),
just as he suspects his estranged cousin Where has been compromised. When
reports come in of mysterious attacks by alien creatures, Doctor How has to
rely on his new companion Kevin, a petty criminal from south London, and
Trinity, a morphing super-predator, as he counters this threat to humanity’s
existence. Bungling agents from MI16, long desperate to capture the Time Keeper’s
technology, hamper How’s efforts to combat the alien menace. Can Doctor How
keep ahead of MI16, save Where and combat the alien threat?
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AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Mark Speed has been writing novels since he was
fifteen. His comedy writing has appeared in newspapers as diverse as the London
Evening Standard and The Sun, and been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra. He
performed his solo comedy, The End of the World Show, at the Edinburgh Fringe
in 2011 and 2012. He is currently working on the five-volume Doctor How series.
Amongst other postgraduate and professional
qualifications, he has a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from City
University, London. In 1995 a chiropractor told him he’d never run again.
Sensibly, he gave up chiropractors, runs every day and has completed several
marathons and a couple of Olympic-length triathlons.
NLP founder Dr Richard Bandler called him a
‘polarity responder’.
Contact Links:
Twitter:
@doctorhow_tv
Excerpt:
Kevin
lowered his window and said, “Come on, Doc. We haven’t got all night.”
Where
honked lightly twice, and Kevin laughed.
Doctor
How smiled and took a couple of steps towards the cab.
There was
a crash from inside the house, and the sound of splintering wood. The Doctor
whipped around to see the sofa burst through the front window and tumble into
the garden. It came to a stop upside down against the wall. He took a couple of
steps back, pulled out his Ultraknife and held it towards the house.
“Get in
the bleedin’ cab and let’s go!” yelled Where.
“I want
to know what it is. Kill the headlights.”
“Kill the
headlights? You’ll kill us all. Get inside!” Nevertheless, Where turned off the
headlights.
“Get in,
Doctor!” shouted Kevin.
The wall
beneath the living room window collapsed outward in a cloud of dust, and the
radiator that sat underneath it fell with a resonating clang onto the rubble.
Water gushed out of a piece of broken central heating pipe.
A pair of
black antennae waved through the dust. They were followed by two interlocking
pairs of black mandibles two feet wide that scythed back and forth in the night
air.
“Oh, you
absolute beauty,” said the Doctor, lowering his Ultraknife a fraction.
“Oi,
nutter! Get in the bleedin’ cab, will ya?” Where turned the headlights back on,
lighting up the rest of the creature. It was six feet wide and six feet tall,
with a rounded shiny black body.
“I wish
you hadn’t done that,” said Kevin. “Get in, Doc. Let’s go!”
“It’s
after you, cousin,” said Doctor How. Or your Spectrel. Or your cab. Or all
three.”
“Well, I
don’t want to stick around and find out which, do I? Get in, you bleedin’
maniac!”
The
Doctor opened the door and got in the front beside his cousin, who jammed the
vehicle into reverse just as the creature edged forward a few feet, to where
the cab had been two seconds before.
“Wait!”
said the Doctor. He slammed the cab into neutral and jerked the handbrake.
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