Doctor Who book
The Also People
Series	Virgin New Adventures
Release number	44
Featuring	Seventh Doctor Bernice, Chris, Roz, Kadiatu
Writer	Ben Aaronovitch
Publisher	Virgin Books
ISBN	ISBN 0426204565
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No. of pages
Release date	November 1995
Preceded by	Head Games
Followed by	Shakedown

The Also People is an original novel written by Ben Aaronovitch and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Seventh Doctor, Bernice, Chris, Roz and Kadiatu. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (359x605, 67 KB) Summary Book cover for the Doctor Who Virgin New Adventure novel The Also People Licensing This image is of a book cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned either by the artist who drew the... The Virgin New Adventures (often referred to simply as NAs within fandom) were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, which had been cancelled in 1989, continuing the story of the series from where the television programme had left off. ... The Seventh Doctor is the name given to the seventh incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Bernice Surprise Summerfield (later Professor Bernice Summerfield or just Benny) is a fictional character originally created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishings range of original full-length Doctor Who novels, the New Adventures. ... Christopher Rodonanté Cwej, usually just known as Chris Cwej, is a fictional character from the Virgin New Adventures range of spin-offs based on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Roslyn Sarah Inyathi Forrester usually just known as Roz Forrester is a fictional character from the Virgin New Adventures range of spin-offs based on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart is a fictional character from the Virgin New Adventures range of spin-offs based on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Ben Aaronovitch is a London-born, British writer who has worked on television series including Doctor Who, Casualty, Jupiter Moon and Dark Knight. ... Virgin Books is the book publishing arm of Virgin Enterprises, the company originally set up by Richard Branson as a record company. ... Head Games is an original novel written by Steve Lyons and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Ben Aaronovitch is a London-born, British writer who has worked on television series including Doctor Who, Casualty, Jupiter Moon and Dark Knight. ... A broadcast of the long-running and popular British science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC about a mysterious time-travelling adventurer known only as The Doctor, who explores time and space with his companions, fighting evil. ... The Seventh Doctor is the name given to the seventh incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Bernice Surprise Summerfield (later Professor Bernice Summerfield or just Benny) is a fictional character originally created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishings range of original full-length Doctor Who novels, the New Adventures. ... Christopher Rodonanté Cwej, usually just known as Chris Cwej, is a fictional character from the Virgin New Adventures range of spin-offs based on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Roslyn Sarah Inyathi Forrester usually just known as Roz Forrester is a fictional character from the Virgin New Adventures range of spin-offs based on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart is a fictional character from the Virgin New Adventures range of spin-offs based on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Like all spin-off media, its canonicity in relation to the television series is unclear. In the context of fiction, the canon of a fictional universe comprises those novels, stories, films, etc. ...

Notes

1. The title comes from a line from Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, where Ford Prefect, in response to Arthur Dent's exclamation, "The people! The things!" in Milliway's, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, notes that "the things are also people." Arthur then corrects himself: "The people! The... other people!"
2. The setting of the novel draws unmistakeable inspiration from the science fiction novels of Iain M. Banks, in particular those concerning the highly-advanced interstellar society called the Culture. The book's Acknowledgements page fails to address this directly, presumably for legal reasons, but alludes to it with a remark that "while talent borrows and genius steals, New Adventure writers get it off the back of a lorry, no questions asked".

Douglas Noël Adams (March 11, 1952 – May 11, 2001) was a cult British comic radio dramatist, amateur musician and author, most notably of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series (HHGG or H2G2). ... The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ... David Dixon as Ford Prefect in Episode One of the TV adaptation of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ... Simon Jones as an upset Arthur Dent, watching his home being demolished in the first episode of the BBC TV series. ... The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980, ISBN 0345391810) is the second book in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams. ... Iain Menzies Banks (born on February 16, 1954 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland) writes mainstream novels as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks. ... The Culture is a fictional anarchic, socialistic and utopian society created by the Scottish writer Iain M. Banks and described by him in several of his novels and shorter fictions. ...

External links

• Outpost Gallifrey's reviews of The Also People
• The Also People at the Doctor Who Reference Guide