Jim Mortimore

writer, composer, musician, artist

Writing

For detailed information on my current project,
Erimem: The Chronicles of Mars,
check out the home page.

Doctor Who

Doctor Who novels

  • Lucifer Rising (1993)
    With Andy Lane
  • Blood Heat (1993)
  • Parasite (1994)
  • Eternity Weeps (1997)
  • The Sword of Forever (1998)
    (Bernice Summerfield)
  • Eye of Heaven (1998)
  • Beltempest (1998)
  • Campaign (2000)
  • Blood Heat Director’s Cut (2015)
  • Beltempest Intermix (2019)

Doctor Who novella

  • Fear of Light
    Director’s Cut (2020)

Doctor Who short story anthologies

  • Decalog 5: Wonders (1997)
    Editor; with Paul Leonard
  • The Book of Shadows (2016)
    • A Game of Sudden Death
    • Pendulum
      Originally written in 1991
    • Three Preludes
    • Two Drabbles
    • The Book of Shadows
    • The Place of All Places
    • A Day in the Death of the Land of Fiction
    • A Rose by Any Other Name
    • From Eternity
    • Baby Grand vs The Queen of the Bug–Eyed Betties
    • A Bell Ringing in an Empty Sky
    • Fearful Symmetry
      Originally written in 2005
    • The Big Crunch
    • Time Enough For War

Doctor Who short stories

  • A Game of Sudden Death in CT (1990)
  • Pendulum in The Book of Shadows (2016)
    Originally written in 1991
  • Three Preludes in Doctor Who Magazine (1993)
  • Two Drabbles in Drabble Who (1993)
  • The Book of Shadows in Decalog (1994)
    Republished in The Book of Shadows (2016)
  • The Place of All Places in Decalog 5: Wonders (1997)
  • A Day in the Death of the Land of Fiction in Charity Collection (1999)
  • A Rose by Any Other Name in Short Trips: Life Sciences (2003)
  • From Eternity in Short Trips: Monsters (2003)
  • Baby Grand vs The Queen of the Bug–Eyed Betties in Short Trips: Earth (2005)
  • A Bell Ringing in an Empty Sky in Life During Wartime (2005)
  • Fearful Symmetry in The Book of Shadows (2016)
    Originally written in 2005
  • The Big Crunch in Iris in Purple (2012)
  • Time Enough For War in Vvworp! Magazine (2013)

Doctor Who script
for Big Finish

  • The Natural History of Fear (2001)

Doctor Who (non-fiction)

  • Unnatural Selection:
    The Natural History of
    The Natural History of Fear     (2014)

Doctor Who and other

  • The Age of Broken Miracles (2016)
    Unsold Doctor Who and other submissions
    • Blood Circuit (1986)
      Doctor Who (original proposal)
    • Nightkill (1986)
      Doctor Who
    • Venom (1987)
      Doctor Who
    • Dominion Moon (1987)
      Doctor Who
    • Prime Consideration (1987)
      Doctor Who
    • Nemesis (1987)
      Doctor Who
    • Chronoclysm (1998)
      Doctor Who
    • Wearing the Moon When She Died (1998)
      Bernice Summerfield
    • Entropy’s Dragon (1998)
      Doctor Who
    • Neptune’s Lament (1999)
      Doctor Who
    • Heresy of the Sun (1999)
      Doctor Who
    • The Sundered Blade (1999)
      Warhammer
    • Unearthly Delights (2001)
      Doctor Who
    • White Demon (2002)
      Sarah Jane Smith
    • The Cabinet of Weng Chiang (2002)
      Doctor Who
    • Blossom (2002)
      Doctor Who
    • Prism (2003)
      Doctor Who
    • The Sargasso Drum (2003)
      Doctor Who
    • Cyberwar (2003)
      Doctor Who
    • White Flowers Bloom (2003)
      Doctor Who
    • Chiaroscuro (2004)
      Doctor Who
    • Selldoc (2004)
      Doctor Who
    • Maps (2004)
      Sapphire and Steel
    • Relics (2004)
      Sapphire and Steel
    • Icons (2004)
      Sapphire and Steel
    • Shadows (2004)
      Sapphire and Steel
    • Still Life (2004)
      Sapphire and Steel
    • Crystal Palace (2004)
      Sapphire and Steel
    • Embers of Eden (2005)
      Space 1999
    • Tomahawk Law (2006)
      Doctor Who
    • A Game of Sudden Death (2006)
      Babylon 5
    • Doors (2006)
      The X‑Files
    • Quill (2007)
      Doctor Who
    • Heart Full of Sky (2008)
      Faction Paradox
    • Eight Days in May (2009)
      Doctor Who
    • Birthday Girl (2009)
      Doctor Who
    • The Soldier and the Child (2011)
      Doctor Who
    • The Garden of Lights (2013)
      Doctor Who
    • The Age of Broken Miracles (2013)
      Doctor Who
    • The Door in the Sky (2013)
      Doctor Who

Erimem novels

  • A Pharaoh of Mars (2025)
  • Goddess of Mars (2025)
  • Legions of Mars (forthcoming)
  • Battlefield Mars (forthcoming)

Erimem short stories

  • The Girl with the Glass Face in Into the Unknown (2016)
  • Moments of Passing (2016)
    Released online by Thebes Publishing
Portrait by Jane Elphinstone

The Tomorrow People

Script for Big Finish

  • The Tomorrow People: A Plague of Dreams (2006)

Cracker

Novels

  • The Mad Woman in the Attic (1994)
  • Men Should Weep (1995)
  • Brotherly Love (1996)

Other tie-in novels

  • Space Truckers (1996)
  • Babylon 5: Clark’s Law (1996)
  • Babylon 5: Security Manual (1997)
    With Roger Clark and Alan Adams
  • Farscape: Dark Side of the Sun (2000)
    As Andrew Dymond

Original works

Novels

  • Skaldenland (2011)
  • Keys (2017)
    With Will Bayley
  • Solstice 12 (2018)
    With Will Bayley

Novellas

  • The Last Rose of Summer (2019)
  • Pythagoras Hammers (2020)
  • The Door in the Wall (2021)
  • Wolfshead: Eater of Worlds (2022)

Short stories

These were subsequently republished in the 2016 anthology,
The Sun in the Bone House.

  • The Sun in the Bone House in Future Bristol (2009)
  • Last Orders in Conflicts (2010)
  • Eater of Worlds in Resurrection Engines (2012)

Short story anthology

  • The Sun in the Bone House (2016)
    • A Rose By Any Other Name
    • From Eternity
    • Fearful Symmetry
    • The Long Road
    • Til Death Us Do Part
    • Shotgun Wedding
    • The Cloud Pruner
    • The Sun in the Bone House
    • Over the Garden Wall
    • Eater of Worlds
    • Last Orders
    • Listen to the Birds
    • Tigers Also Dream
    • The Door in the Wall
    • Final Session
    • Target Lock
    • I Know A Girl
    • On the Differences and Similarities Between Poets

Scripts

  • The Only Way of Dying (2007)
  • Last of the Drop Dead Divas (2007)
  • First Frontier: How to Steal the World (2008)
  • 8:15 (2008)
  • Finding Alice (2011)
  • AMYTH (2013)

Audio Visuals

Doctor Who scripts

  • Blood Circuit (1986)
  • Second Solution (1986)
    As Ed Taylor
  • Carny (1988)
    As Jonathan Boothroyd
  • Mythos (1990)
    As Jonathan Boothroyd

Non-fiction

  • Life Scripts: Teenage Drug Use (TBC)
    University of the West of England

In the pipeline

  • Countdown (TBC)
    Doctor Who novel
  • Gates of Grief (TBC)
    Sarah Jane Smith novella; illustrated
  • Cyluria (TBC)
    Doctor Who Novel
  • Baby Grand Director’s Cut (TBC)
    Doctor Who novella; illustrated and expanded
  • The Book of Shadows Director’s Cut (TBC)
    Doctor Who novella; expanded from the 1994 short story
  • Blood of the Witch Tree (TBC)
    Doctor Who novella
  • Tomahawk Law (TBC)
    Doctor Who novella
  • The Lazarus Grail (TBC)
    Original novel
  • The Dead Heart (TBC)
    Original novel

… more to follow …