Andy Lane

Andrew Lane (born 1963), who also writes as Andy Lane, is a British author and journalist. He has written a number of spin-off novels in the Virgin New Adventures range and audio dramas for Big Finish based on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who (and a novel for the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood), as well as assorted non fiction books based upon popular film and TV franchises such as James Bond. He has also written TV storylines and scripts for the Sky One science fiction series Space Island One.

During 2009 Macmillan Books announced that Andrew Lane would be writing a series of books focusing on the early life of Sherlock Holmes. The series was developed in conjunction with the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Andy had already shown an extensive knowledge of the Holmes character and continuity in his Virgin Books novel All-Consuming Fire in which he created The Library of St. John the Beheaded as a meeting place for the worlds of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who. The first book in the 'Young Sherlock Holmes' series -- Death Cloud -- was published in the UK in June 2010 (February 2011 in the USA), with the second -- Red Leech -- published in the UK in November of that year (with a planned US publication date under the title Rebel Fire of February 2012). The third book -- Black Ice -- was published in June 2011 in the UK while the fourth book -- Fire Storm -- is scheduled for October 2011. Death Cloud was shortlisted for the 2010 North East Book Award. (coming second by three votes) and has also been shortlisted for the 2011 Southampton's Favourite Book Award.

Andy Lane originally studied Physics at Warwick University, where he was a contemporary and friend of writers Justin Richards and Craig Hinton. He currently lives with his wife and son in Dorset, England. He is represented by Robert Kirby at United Agents.

Books

Young Sherlock Holmes

• Death Cloud (2010)
• Red Leech (2010)
• Black Ice (2011)
• Fire Storm (2011)
• Snake Bite (planned for Oct 2012)

Virgin New Adventures

• Lucifer Rising (1993) (with Jim Mortimore)
• All-Consuming Fire (1994)
• Original Sin (1995)

Virgin Missing Adventures

• The Empire of Glass (1995)

Eighth Doctor Adventures

• The Banquo Legacy (2000) (with Justin Richards)

Torchwood

• Slow Decay (2007)

Other TV-related novels and novelisations

• Bugs : A Sporting Chance (1996)
• Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): Ghost in the Machine (2000)

TV and film-related non-fiction

• The Babylon File (1997)
• The Bond Files: The Unofficial Guide to Ian Fleming's James Bond (1998) (with Paul Simpson)
• The Babylon File: Volume 2 (1999)
• Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) - The Files (2001)
• The World of Austin Powers (2002)
• Creating Creature Comforts (2003)
• The World of Wallace and Gromit (2004)
• The World of The Magic Roundabout (2005) (with Paul Simpson)
• The Art of Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) (with Paul Simpson)

Short stories

• ‘Living in the Past’ (in Doctor Who Magazine, Issue 162, July 1990)
• ‘Crawling From the Wreckage’ (in The Ultimate Witch, Dell 1993)
• ‘The More Things Change’ (in Doctor Who Yearbook, 1994)
• ‘Lovers, and Other Strangers’ (in Interzone, issue 87, September 1994)
• ‘Fallen Angel' (in Decalog, Virgin 1994)
• ‘It’s Only a Game' (in Doctor Who Yearbook, 1995)
• ‘Faceless in Ghazar’ (in Blake’s Seven Poster Magazine. Issue 2, Jan 1995)
• ‘The Old, Old Story’ (in The Ultimate Dragon, 1995)
• ‘Saving Face’ (in Full Spectrum 5, 1995)
• ‘Where the Heart Is’ (in Decalog 2, 1995)
• ‘Four Angry Mutants’ (with Rebecca Levene) (in The Ultimate X-Men, 1996)
• ‘Dependence Day’ (with Justin Richards) (in Decalog 4, 1997)
• ‘No Experience Necessary’ (in Odyssey issue 2, 1997)
• ‘As Near to Flame as Lust to Smoke’ (in Shakespearean Detectives, 1998)
• ‘The Gaze of the Falcon’ (in The Mammoth Book of Royal Whodunnits, 1998)
• ‘Blood on the Tracks’ (in Bernice Summerfield - Missing Adventures, 2007)
• ‘Only Connect’ (in Short Trips - Transmissions, 2008)
• ‘The Beauty of Our Weapons’ (in Torchwood Yearbook, 2008)
• ‘Who by Fire?’ (in Torchwood Magazine, Issue 14 ; 2009)
• ‘Closing Time’ (in Torchwood Magazine, Issues 16 & 17; 2009)
• ‘The Curious Case of the Compromised Card Files’ (for a Barclay's Bank internal document; 2011)
• ‘The Audience of the Dead’ (in The Strand Magazine, Issue 34, June-Sept 2011)
• ‘Bedlam’ (a Young Sherlock Holmes short story published exclusively for the Kindle ebook reader, Dec 2011)

Television

Space Island One

• ‘Awakenings’ (story) (1998)
• ‘Mayfly’ (script) (1998)
• ‘Money Makes the World Go Around’ (story) (1998)

Audio

Doctor Who

• The Companion Chronicles: ‘Here There Be Monsters’ (June 2008)
• The Companion Chronicles: ‘The Mahogany Murderers’ (June 2009)
• A Thousand Tiny Wings (April 2010)
• Paradise 5 (with P. J. Hammond) (April 2010)
• The Adventures of Jago and Litefoot: ‘The Similarity Engine’ (June 2010)
• The Adventures of Jago and Litefoot: ‘The Ruthven Inheritance’ (January 2011)
• The Companion Chronicles: ‘The Forbidden Time’ (as David Lock) (March 2011)
• The Adventures of Jago and Litefoot: ‘Chronoclasm’ (June 2011)

Journalism

Andy Lane has written articles, reviews and interviews for various magazines, including: DreamWatch, Radio Times, SFX, Starburst, Star Trek Magazine, Star Wars Magazine, Star Wars Fact Files and TV Guide (USA).

External links

• Andy Lane at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Andy Lane at the Internet Movie Database