Paul Cornell

Paul Cornell
Birth date:	18 July 1967
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Writer
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Paul Cornell wrote several New Adventures and edited several Bernice Summerfield anthologies for Big Finish Productions.

He co-authored The Avengers Programme Guide.

Paul Cornell was responsible for several additions to the Doctor Who universe. He created Bernice Summerfield and Wolsey the cat. "A friend of mine has a cat called Wolsey, and I wanted there to be a cat in the TARDIS, and I put it to Peter Darvill-Evans and Co. And they said No no no. And then a few nights later at a nice drinking session Rebecca said, 'Thish cat Poll, Thish cat Wolsey, we'll av im we'll av im'."

He also wrote Father's Day for the 2005 series of Doctor Who, and adapted his novel Human Nature into the two-part Human Nature/The Family of Blood for the 2007 series. Both were nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form, although he lost out both times to fellow Who scribe Steven Moffat.

He was later nominated in the Best Graphic Story category for The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who, making him the only person to be nominated in two separate categories for his work on Doctor Who.

Bibliography

Novels

Virgin New Adventures

• Timewyrm: Revelation
• Love and War
• No Future
• Human Nature
• Happy Endings

Virgin Missing Adventures

• Goth Opera

BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures

• The Shadows of Avalon

Other Doctor Who novels

• Scream of the Shalka (novelisation)

Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures

• Oh No It Isn't!

Short stories

Doctor Who Magazine

• Teenage Kicks

Virgin Decalogs

• Lackaday Express
• The Trials of Tara

The Daily Telegraph

• The Hopes and Fears of All the Years

Web short stories

• The War of Art

Television

Doctor Who TV stories

• Father's Day
• Human Nature / The Family of Blood

Reference books

• The Discontinuity Guide

Audio

Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories

• The Shadow of the Scourge
• Seasons of Fear (with Caroline Symcox)
• Circular Time (with Mike Maddox)
• The 100 Days of the Doctor

Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series

• Death and the Daleks

Comic stories

DWM comic stories

• The Chameleon Factor
• Emperor of the Daleks!
• Time & Time Again
• Stairway to Heaven (with John Freeman)

Doctor Who Magazine special issues

• Seaside Rendezvous

Doctor Who Yearbook

• Metamorphosis

IDW

• The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who

As editor

Short Trips

• Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury

External links

• Official site
• Interview with Paul Cornell, 3rd March 1995, which appeared in Broadsword issue three
• Interview with Paul Cornell, 1999, which appeared in issue 3 of The Curse magazine
• Interview with Paul Cornell, 01, January 2004, on BBC - Doctor Who website
• TSV 43 Four Writers, One Discussion - Andy Lane, Paul Cornell, Steven Moffat & David Bishop By Guy Blythman
• Den of Geek - Paul Cornell interview: Captain Britain, Doctor Who, Matt Smith, Primeval and more…, Published 23rd March, 2009