Queen Bat
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| Title: | Queen Bat |
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| Date(s): | 1980-?? |
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| Fandom: | Doctor Who, with some multimedia |
| Language: | English |
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Queen Bat is a gen Doctor Who, with some multimedia, anthology that succeeds Space Rat. Issue #1 was published in 1980, and issue #10 in 1988. At least thirteen issues were published. One issue contains "Timewyrm: Revelation," a serialised fan fiction piece Paul Cornell penned and then later published as a Doctor Who novel for Virgin New Adventures.
The Zine Wiki reports that:
"Contributors of fiction writing included Nick Cooper, Paul Cornell, Clare Ford, Robert Franks, and the editors, among others......The Letters page was entitled '"Spectrox Nest".
Paul Cornell's Doctor Who novel, "Timewyrm: Revelation", published by Virgin Publishing, was based on "Total Eclipse", a story written for Queen Bat.[1]
Several selections from Queen Bat, including "Creating A Role: The Doctor Who Girl" (Queen Bat # 6); "The Eternal Archetypes" by Val Douglas (Queen Bat # 5); and "Dear Auntie Nicer" by Jackie Marshall (Queen Bat # 13) are included in the anthology "Licence Denied: Rumblings from the Doctor Who Underground", edited by Paul Cornell and published by Virgin Books in 1997."[2]