Novacon is next weekend, with Una McCormack as Guest of Honour. You may not be fully aware of what she has done; writers of tier-in works do not always get the recognition that they deserve. She has published sixteen Star Trek novels, with a seventeenth coming out this month; seven Doctor Who novels, two Firefly novels, two in the shared Weird Space world set up by Eric Green, and a couple of short standalones, as well as more than a dozen short stories. She has also written at least eighteen Big Finish audios, a couple of Blake’s Seven and Star Cops plays and more. She is a critic as well; I list her monograph on a 1989 Doctor Who story below, and she has also edited essay collections on Doctor Who and Lois McMaster Bujold and a collection of meditations from Woman’s Hour.
I give you fair warning that every day of this coming week, this blog is going to feature a review of Una’s work that I have recently read / listened to, culminating with her not yet published Star Trek novel. In the meantime, here is a checklist of her work that I have previously reviewed or mentioned here, followed by the library sites’ ratings of her works as a whole.
Doctor Who novels
- All Flesh is Grass (Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Doctors)
- The King’s Dragon (Eleventh Doctor / Amy / Rory)
- The Way Through the Woods (Eleventh Doctor / Amy / Rory)
- Royal Blood (Twelfth Doctor / Clara)
- Molten Heart (Thirteenth Doctor / Yazz / Ryan / Graham)
- Caged (Fifteenth Doctor / Ruby)
- The Robot Revolution (Fifteenth Doctor / Belinda, novelisation)
- Counterstrike (Fifteenth Doctor / Belinda)
Doctor Who non-fiction
Star Trek fiction:
As contributor (fiction)
- “Sea Change”, in The Year’s Best Science Fiction, 25th Annual Edition, ed. Gardner Dozois
- “Grounded” in The Target Storybook, ed. Steve Cole (Clive)
- “The Little People” in Once Upon A Parsec: the Book of Alien Fairy Tales, ed. David Gullen
As contributor (audio)
- “An Eye for Murder” in Breaking Bubbles and Other Stories (Sixth Doctor / Peri)
- “The Bonfires of the Vanities” in The First Doctor Chronicles vol 2
As contributor (non-fiction)
- “He’s not the Messiah: Undermining Political and Religious Authority in New Doctor Who“, in The Unsilent Library, edited by Simon Bradshaw, Antony Keen and Graham Sleight.
- “Finding Ourselves in the (Un)Mapped Lands: Women’s Reparative Readings of The Lord of the Rings” in Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J.R.R. Tolkien, eds. Janet Brennan Croft and Leslie Donovan
And here is the compete list of her works as far as I can tarck them on Goodreads, LibraryThing and StoryGraph:
| Title | Author | GR raters | LT owners | SG reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Peacemakers | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | not published yet | ||
| The Last Best Hope | Star Trek: Picard | 4,217 | 328 | 759 |
| The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway | Star Trek: Voyager | 2,242 | 158 | 538 |
| The Way Through the Woods | Doctor Who | 1,302 | 241 | 259 |
| The King’s Dragon | Doctor Who | 1,144 | 291 | 216 |
| Carnival | Firefly | 1,604 | 145 | 278 |
| Cardassia and Andor | Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | 954 | 319 | 136 |
| The Crimson Shadow | Star Trek: The Fall | 1,169 | 185 | 165 |
| The Never Ending Sacrifice | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | 896 | 216 | 156 |
| The Way to the Stars | Star Trek: Discovery | 983 | 110 | 226 |
| Enigma Tales | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | 935 | 113 | 216 |
| Royal Blood | Doctor Who | 821 | 155 | 171 |
| Brinkmanship | Star Trek: Typhon Pact | 887 | 150 | 118 |
| All Flesh is Grass | Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious | 848 | 85 | 197 |
| Molten Heart | Doctor Who | 589 | 92 | 202 |
| The Undefeated | (standalone) | 668 | 78 | 201 |
| Hollow Men | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | 486 | 218 | 83 |
| Coup de Grâce | Firefly | 939 | 85 | 96 |
| The Autobiography of Mr. Spock | Star Trek | 604 | 126 | 83 |
| Asylum | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 683 | 60 | 127 |
| The Missing | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | 604 | 103 | 82 |
| Wonderlands | Star Trek: Discovery | 524 | 70 | 110 |
| Second Self | Star Trek: Picard | 830 | 94 | 22 |
| Caged | Doctor Who | 263 | 26 | 71 |
| The Baba Yaga (with Eric Brown) | Weird Space | 138 | 50 | 23 |
| Window on the World | Doctor Who | 93 | 19 | 27 |
| The Robot Revolution | Doctor Who | 73 | 27 | 18 |
| Gallifrey: Time War 1 | Doctor Who | 118 | 13 | 20 |
| The Star of the Sea | Weird Space | 77 | 26 | 15 |
| Partisans | Doctor Who: Gallifrey | 90 | 11 | 17 |
| Doctor Who: Red Planets | Doctor Who | 92 | 10 | 16 |
| The Good Life | Doctor Who: Master | 79 | 4 | 22 |
| The Curse of Fenric | Doctor Who: Black Archive: | 33 | 13 | 10 |
| Infidel Places | Torchwood | 56 | 4 | 14 |
| This Sporting Life | Doctor Who | 62 | 3 | 10 |
| Evolution | Gallifrey | 52 | 3 | 9 |
| An Eye for Murder | Doctor Who | 17 | 15 | 4 |
| Peace in Our Time | Doctor Who | 47 | 1 | 6 |
| Counterstrike | Doctor Who | 21 | 4 | 5 |
| Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things: Cultural Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood, and the Sarah Jane Adventures (co-edited with Ross Garner and Melissa Beattie) | 9 | 9 | 3 | |
| Ministry of Truth | Blake’s 7 | 19 | 19 | 0 |
| The Shadow of This Red Rock | Star Cops | 18 | 2 | 6 |
| The Greatest Story Ever Told | (standalone) | 11 | 13 | 1 |
| Biology and Manners: Essays on the Worlds and Works of Lois McMaster Bujold | 4 | 10 | 3 | |
| Risk Management | Blake’s 7 | 2 | 6 | 4 |
| Troubled Waters | Star Cops | 10 | 3 | 0 |
| Deliverance | Blake’s 7 | 8 | 2 | 0 |
| Woman’s Hour: Daily Meditat… | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Short But Concentrated: an essay symposium on the works of Lois McMaster Bujold (ed with Regina Yung Lee) | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Short But Concentrated #2: an essay symposium on the works of Lois McMaster Bujold | 1 | 0 | 0 | |