Here are the words on the press release which AudioGO (formerly BBC Audiobooks) have sent out, about my Eleventh Doctor/Amy Doctor Who audiobook The Gemini Contagion. Pleasingly, the synopsis is pretty much culled from my outline for the story. It's great that Meera Syal (The Kumars, Doctor Who Series Five) is reading it - I haven't heard the recording yet, but I'm sure she'll knock it out of the park, as they say.
"The ice-planet Vinsk, in the year 2112. The all-new anti-viral handwash, Gemini, has been laced with Meme-Spawn: a sentient micro-organism which makes the user fluent in every language in the universe. However, manufacturer Zalnex made one crucial mistake. They didn’t test Gemini on humans, who are seized by the violent urge to communicate but speak every language all at once – with a manic, garbled shriek – and pass on the virus by touch.
The Doctor and Amy arrive on an Earth-bound cargo-ship loaded with Gemini, where a human crew are succumbing to the virus which has nasty second and third phases in store. When the Doctor and Amy are separated, they both know that it’s only a matter of time before Amy is infected.
With the ship locked on course, and no way of curing the sufferers, the Doctor is faced with a terrible decision: does he save Amy, or Earth?
Meera Syal reads this exclusive audio story featuring the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond.
Written specially for audio by Jason Arnopp, ‘The Gemini Contagion’ is read by Meera Syal, who played Nasreen Chaudhry in the BBC TV episodes ‘The Hungry Earth’ and ‘Cold Blood’."
You can pre-order Doctor Who: The Gemini Contagion for a very reasonable £6.29 at Amazon UK here.
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Doctor Who: The Gemini Contagion
It's called The Gemini Contagion. The reader has yet to be confirmed. The CD (and presumably download) is not out until March 3, 2011, so I won't be telling you much about the story now, except to say that, as the title suggests, it does centre on some kind of outbreak.
I can definitely tell you that I loved every single second of writing it and that it very much represents me and the kind of stories I like to tell. Hopefully, like my Sarah Jane Adventures: Deadly Download - out now, folks - it's also about something, in addition to being a big old barnstorming adventure in time and space.
Couldn't be more thrilled, I tell you! Roll on March.
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