Short Trips: Steel Skies

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Short Trips: Steel Skies
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Author John Binns
Series Doctor Who book:
Big Finish Short Trips
Release number
5
Publisher Big Finish Productions
Publication date
December 2003
Pages240
ISBN 1-84435-045-2
Preceded by Short Trips: The Muses  
Followed by Short Trips: Past Tense  

Short Trips: Steel Skies is a Big Finish original anthology edited by John Binns and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . The stories are all set in enclosed and artificial environments. The book has four sections, each exploring a different kind of confinement: flight, frontiers, incarceration and isolation.

Contents

Stories

TitleAuthorDoctorFeaturing
Corridors of PowerMatthew Griffiths 1st Steven and Vicki
A Good Life Simon Guerrier 8th Charley
Reversal of FortuneGraeme Burk8thNone
MonitorHuw Wilkins 7th None
Dust Paul Leonard 2nd None
Light at the End of the Tunnel Mark Wright 5th Peri
No Exit Kate Orman 5th Nyssa and Tegan
HouseJeremy Daw 6th Peri
Deep StretchRichard Salter 3rd Jo
Inmate 280 Cavan Scott 7thNone
Doing Time Lance Parkin 4th Romana? [1]
The Ruins of Heaven Marc Platt 6thPeri
Cold War Rebecca Levene 7th Ace and Benny
O, DarknessJohn Binns4th Romana II and Adric
Greenaway Peter Anghelides 2nd, 5th, 8th, and future Doctors None
Eternity Jonathan Blum 4th Sarah

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References

  1. "Doctor Who Reference Guide".