Doctor Who Club of Australia

[Theta Sigma]

John Bowman has reported at Outpost Gallifrey that author Peter Haining has passed away at the relatively young age of 67.

Haining wrote a number of books about Doctor Who, starting with the 20th- anniversary volume Doctor Who: A Celebration - Two Decades Through Time And Space in 1983.

Other titles followed, including The Key To Time: A Year-By-Year Record, The Doctor Who File, The Time-Travellers' Guide, Doctor Who: 25 Glorious Years and The Nine Lives of Doctor Who.*

Haining also wrote about Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, Maigret and James Bond as well as editing many anthologies of horror and fantasy stories.

In 2001, he won the British Fantasy Awards Karl Edward Wagner Award.

It is believed the cause of death was a heart attack.

*I browsed through but did not buy The Nine Lives of Doctor Who at the ABC Shop back in 1999 some six years before the current TV series and the title does not include in its reference Ninth Doctor Chris Eccleston but the first eight TV Doctors from Hartnell to McGann and the Dalek movie Doctor Peter Cushing.

[Speckled Jim]

Massive bummer ... he was a true encyclopedia of Who knowledge. I remember saving all my pennies for 25 Glorious Years; when it came out I was lost in it for days.
RIP mate.