British author
Mark Clapham (born 1976) is a British author, best known for writing fiction and reference books for television series, in particular relating to "Doctor Who" (and its spin-offs) and Warhammer 40,000.
Writing.
Clapham started out writing "Doctor Who" fan fiction and, through Seventh Door Fanzines, began to work with Lance Parkin. Notable fan fiction work included "Integration", a novella in Seventh Door's "Odyssey" series, edited by Parkin.
Having been asked to write a "New Adventure" (a Bernice Summerfield novel for Virgin Publishing) for the November 1998 slot, Parkin found himself too busy with other commitments to write a book on his own and, with editor Rebecca Levene's blessing, brought in Clapham as a co-author. Between them, the two devised "Beige Planet Mars", a campus mystery novel set at a Mars University. Clapham was later offered the final Virgin Benny slot and, with a tight deadline, brought in Jon de Burgh Miller as his co-writer on "Twilight of the Gods".
Clapham went on to co-write "The Taking of Planet 5" with Simon Bucher-Jones in the BBC's "Doctor Who" novel line, before eventually writing his first solo novel for the line, "Hope". He wrote a comic in Accent UK's "Zombies" anthology. He edited "Secret Histories", a Bernice Summerfield anthology.
He has written non-fiction, both reference books for TV (often with Jim Smith) and magazine work, notably for the official "" magazine. With Smith and Eddie Robson, he wrote "Who's Next: An Unofficial Guide to Doctor Who".
He later wrote official fiction in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
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