{"id":33647,"date":"2013-01-07T15:57:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T15:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=33647"},"modified":"2013-01-07T18:05:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T18:05:49","slug":"doctor-whos-50th-artermis-fowl-author-to-write-short-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/doctor-whos-50th-artermis-fowl-author-to-write-short-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who 50th: Artemis Fowl author writes short story"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The cover art for Eoin Colfer’s ‘A Big Hand For The Doctor’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

As part of the Doctor Who<\/em> 50th anniversary celebrations<\/a>, the BBC are collaborating with well-known childrens’ authors for a series of short stories, to be published digitally and then collected in a volume to be published 23 November 2013.<\/p>\n

With one story per Doctor, already Harry Potter creator JK Rowling is rumoured to be involved, but the first author, writing about the First Doctor<\/a>, is Artemis Fowl<\/em>‘s Eoin Colfer, and according to the BBC, “Eoin has reimagined the First Doctor and created a brand new Doctor Who<\/em> adventure called ‘A Big Hand For The Doctor’, released on 23 January 2013.”<\/p>\n

Publisher Juliet Matthews said: “We are delighted to have 11 sensational children’s authors involved in the series, all bringing an individual style, imagination and interpretation to their eshort tribute to the Doctor.<\/p>\n

Eoin Colfer’s ‘A Big Hand For The Doctor’ is available for pre-order for £1.99 from Amazon.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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