BBC Books 2004

BBC Books has informed us that Paul Cornell's adaptation of his serial The Scream of the Shalka, based on the animated serial starring Richard E. Grant debuting online in November, will be released in February 2004. BBC Books was hoping to do Shalka as an 'extra' book, "but sadly that's not possible at such short notice without upsetting the distribution and making things difficult all round," says range consultant Justin Richards. All of the previously confirmed novels will therefore slip back one month, with David Bishop's "Empire of Death" in March, Mark Michalowski's "Half-Life" in April, David McIntee's "The Eleventh Tiger" in May, Jonathan Morris' "The Tomorrow Windows" in June and Craig Hinton's "Synthespians(TM)" in July. (Thanks to Justin Richards)