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Rebecca Levene is a British
United Kingdom

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 author
Author

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 and editor, best known for editing Virgin's New Adventures
Virgin New Adventures

The Virgin New Adventures were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the United Kingdom Science fiction on television series Doctor Who....
 series of original fiction Doctor Who
Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British Science fiction on television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien Time travel known as "Doctor " who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box....
 novels.

Biography
Levene was educated at Clare College, Cambridge
Cambridge

The city status in the United Kingdom of Cambridge is a College town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 50 miles north of London....
. After graduating, she worked for a Labour
Labour Party (UK)

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 MP
Member of Parliament

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. Levene then applied for a job at Virgin and began as an assistant to Peter Darvill-Evans
Peter Darvill-Evans

Peter Darvill-Evans is a United Kingdom writer and editor. He lived in Buckinghamshire until he went to university, graduating in 1975 from University College, London with a degree in History....
 working on the New Adventures. She later took over as editor of Virgin's Doctor Who lines, a period seen by many as a high point for Doctor Who prose fiction.






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Rebecca Levene is a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
 and editor, best known for editing Virgin's New Adventures
Virgin New Adventures

The Virgin New Adventures were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the United Kingdom Science fiction on television series Doctor Who....
 series of original fiction Doctor Who
Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British Science fiction on television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien Time travel known as "Doctor " who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box....
 novels.

Biography


Levene was educated at Clare College, Cambridge
Cambridge

The city status in the United Kingdom of Cambridge is a College town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 50 miles north of London....
. After graduating, she worked for a Labour
Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Left-wing politics in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently organised again....
 MP
Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators....
. Levene then applied for a job at Virgin and began as an assistant to Peter Darvill-Evans
Peter Darvill-Evans

Peter Darvill-Evans is a United Kingdom writer and editor. He lived in Buckinghamshire until he went to university, graduating in 1975 from University College, London with a degree in History....
 working on the New Adventures. She later took over as editor of Virgin's Doctor Who lines, a period seen by many as a high point for Doctor Who prose fiction. She also worked on other projects at Virgin, including their Judge Dredd
Judge Dredd

Judge Joe Dredd is a comics character whose strip in the British comics science fiction anthology 2000 AD is the magazine's longest running ....
 series and their gay erotica
Erotica

Erotica or "curiosa," works of art, including erotic literature, photography, film, sculpture and painting, that deal substantively with eroticism sexual stimulation or sexual arousal descriptions....
 line, Idol.

Along with other Virgin alumni including Gareth Roberts
Gareth Roberts (writer)

Gareth John Pritchard Roberts is a United Kingdom television screenwriter and novelist, best known for his work related to the science-fiction television series Doctor Who....
 and Lance Parkin
Lance Parkin

Lance Parkin is a United Kingdom author, best known for writing fiction and reference books for television series, in particular Doctor Who and Emmerdale....
, she became a storyliner for television soap Emmerdale
Emmerdale

Emmerdale, known as Emmerdale Farm until 1989, is a United Kingdom soap opera that has aired on ITV since 1972. It is set in the fictional village of Emmerdale in West Yorkshire, England, and was created by Kevin Laffan, with Keith Richardson serving as Executive Producer since 1986 and Anita Turner as Series Producer from Janu...
 for a period. Subsequent TV work included on Sky One
Sky One

Sky1 is a British Sky Broadcasting entertainment channel in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. The channel first launched in 1982 as "Satellite Television", and is the fourth-oldest TV channel in the UK, behind BBC One , ITV and BBC Two ....
's Is Harry on the Boat?
Is Harry on the Boat?

Is Harry on the Boat? was a 2001 United Kingdom made for TV movie, based on the lives of holiday reps in Ibiza. A television drama series then followed, airing on Sky One from 2002 to 2003....
 She has also continued to work with Roberts on comedy projects for TV since, including the comedy sketch show Swinging.

Her first novel, the post-Doctor Who New Adventure Where Angels Fear
Where Angels Fear

Where Angels Fear is an original novel by Rebecca Levene and Simon Winstone featuring the fictional archaeologist Bernice Summerfield. The New Adventures were a spin-off from the long-running United Kingdom science fiction on television series Doctor Who....
, was co-written with Simon Winstone
Simon Winstone

Simon Winstone is a United Kingdom author and editor, known for his work on Doctor Who and on the BBC soap opera EastEnders.Winstone worked for Virgin Books, overseeing their Missing Adventures Doctor Who series and briefly being in charge of the Virgin New Adventures after the series had ceased being a Doctor Who tie-in....
, her deputy and successor on the New Adventures. More recently, she has written for publisher Black Flame
Black Flame

Black Flame was an imprint of BL Publishing, the publishing arm of Games Workshop and a sister imprint to the Black Library and Solaris Books. Black Flame was devoted to publishing cult fiction in the fields of science fiction, fantasy and Horror fiction....
, including a Strontium Dog
Strontium Dog

Strontium Dog is a long-running comics series featuring in the United Kingdom science fiction weekly 2000 AD , starring Johnny Alpha, a mutant bounty hunter with an array of imaginative gadgets and weapons....
 novel Bad Timing and a Final Destination
Final Destination

Final Destination is a 2000 in film supernatural thriller , about a group of teenagers who cheat death by avoiding a plane crash when one of them, Alex, has a premonition of their deaths....
 novel End of the Line. She has written for Big Finish
Big Finish

Big Finish can refer to:* Big Finish Productions, a British company that produces books and audio plays based on science fiction properties.* Big Finish Games, the production company behind the Three_Cards_to_Midnight adventure game....
, including Doctor Who short stories and a Tomorrow People audio drama. An eighth Doctor novel for the BBC, Freaks, was announced, but Levene pulled out of the project. She has also written for Doctor Who Magazine
Doctor Who Magazine

Doctor Who Magazine is a magazine devoted to the long-running United Kingdom science fiction television series Doctor Who. Its current editor is Tom Spilsbury....
 and for newspapers.

Levene has often written under pseudonym
Pseudonym

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s, including as Evan Pritchard for BBC Books
BBC Books

BBC Books is an imprint majority owned and managed by Random House. The minority shareholder is BBC Worldwide, the commercial subsidiary of the BBC....
' Doctor Who short story collection Short Trips
Short Trips

Short Trips may refer to:* BBC Short Trips, a series of three Doctor Who short story collections published by the BBC, or the first book in that series...
, and as Carla Marks for SFX
SFX

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.

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Books published include:

  • Black Flame
    Black Flame

    Black Flame was an imprint of BL Publishing, the publishing arm of Games Workshop and a sister imprint to the Black Library and Solaris Books. Black Flame was devoted to publishing cult fiction in the fields of science fiction, fantasy and Horror fiction....
    :
    • 2000 AD:
      • Strontium Dog
        Strontium Dog

        Strontium Dog is a long-running comics series featuring in the United Kingdom science fiction weekly 2000 AD , starring Johnny Alpha, a mutant bounty hunter with an array of imaginative gadgets and weapons....
        : Bad Timing         (June 2004, ISBN 1-84416-110-2)
      • Rogue Trooper
        Rogue Trooper

        Rogue Trooper is a science fiction strip in the United Kingdom comic book 2000 AD , created by Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons. It follows the adventures of Rogue, a G.I....
        : The Quartz Massacre         (January 2006, ISBN 1-84416-110-2)
    • Final Destination
      Final Destination

      Final Destination is a 2000 in film supernatural thriller , about a group of teenagers who cheat death by avoiding a plane crash when one of them, Alex, has a premonition of their deaths....
      :
      • End of the Line
        Final Destination books

        The Final Destination books are not the same as the films but parts from the films are loosely connected to things used in the books....
         (June 2005 ISBN 1-84416-176-5)


  • Abaddon Books
    Abaddon Books

    Abaddon Books are an imprint of Rebellion Developments, who also own 2000 AD , aimed at publishing novels in the horror, sci-fi and fantasy genres....
    :
    • The Afterblight Chronicles: Kill or Cure (April 2007, ISBN 1-905437-32-3)
    • Tomes of the Dead: Anno Mortis (November 2008, ISBN 1-905437-85-4)


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