Torchwood: Consequences

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The team become entangled in time in this collection of short stories from the bestselling Torchwood range Saving the planet, watching over the Rift, preparing the human race for the twenty-first century... Torchwood has been keeping Cardiff safe since the late 1800s. Small teams of heroes, working 24/7, encountering and containing the alien, the bizarre and the inexplicable.But Torchwood do not always see the effects of their actions. What links the Rules and Regulations for replacing a Torchwood leader to the destruction of a supermarket? How does a witness to an alien's reprisals against Torchwood become caught up in a night of terror in a university library? And why should Gwen and Ianto's actions at a local publisher's affect Torchwood more than a century earlier?For Torchwood, the past will always catch up with them. And sometimes the future will catch up with the past...Featuring sci-fi stories by writers for the hit Torchwood series created by Russell T Davies for BBC Television, including James Moran and Joseph Lidster, plus Andrew Cartmel, Sarah Pinborough and David Llewellyn.

James Moran (Author) is a British screenwriter for television and film, who wrote the horror-comedy Severance. He works in the horror, comedy, science-fiction, historical fiction and spy thriller genresAndrew Cartmel (Author) is a British author and journalist. He was also the script editor of Doctor Who from 1987 to 1989. He has also worked as a script editor on other television series, as a magazine editor, as a comics writer, as a film studies lecturer, and as a novelist.David Llewellyn (Author) was born in Pontypool in 1978. He is the author of three previous novels, 'Eleven', 'Torchwood- Trace Memory', and 'Everything Is Sinister'. He lives in Cardiff.Sarah Pinborough (Author) is the author of five horror novels, two of which have been short-listed for the British Fantasy Society Award for Best Novel in 2007 and 2008. Sarah currently lives and works in Milton Keynes. You can find out more about Sarah at www.sarahpinborough.com.Joseph Lidster (Author) is an author, script writer and actor who has written over 15 dramas for the Doctor Who, Sapphire and Steel and The Tomorrow People ranges, as well as the Torchwood audiobooks In the Shadows and Red Skies. His TV credits include the Torchwood episode 'A Day in the Death' and three episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures. He has also written numerous short stories, including the title story in the Torchwood- Consequences collection and 'Cybermen- Status Update' (an exclusive adventure included in the BBC's interactive ebook Doctor Who- Cybermen Monster File).