Simon Messingham

Simon Messingham is a British stage performer and novelist who has written tie-in fiction for the Doctor Who franchise since the mid-1990s. His work spans several strands of the show's original-novel publishing, including the New Adventures range with Strange England, the Past Doctor Adventures with Zeta Major, Tomb of Valdemar, and The Indestructible Man, and the Eighth Doctor Adventures with The Face-Eater and The Infinity Race, alongside the later original novel The Doctor Trap. His stories are known for probing the ethics and nature of the Doctor across different incarnations, often placing the character in morally ambiguous historical or alien settings. Published primarily through Virgin Books and BBC Worldwide, his novels form a substantial part of the expanded Doctor Who literary universe familiar to longtime fans of the series.