Paul Cornell Information


Paul Cornell

Paul Cornell

he/him

Writer
UK

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Biography:
Paul Cornell has written episodes of Elementary, Doctor Who ('Father's Day' and 'Human Nature'), Primeval, Robin Hood and many other TV series, including his own children's show, Wavelength. He's worked for every major comics company, including his creator-owned series I Walk With Monsters for The Vault, The Modern Frankenstein for Magma, Saucer Country for Vertigo and This Damned Band for Dark Horse, and runs for Marvel and DC on Batman and Robin, Wolverine and Young Avengers. He's the writer of the Lychford rural fantasy novellas from Tor.com Publishing. He's won the BSFA Award for his short fiction, an Eagle Award for his comics, a Hugo Award for his podcast and shares in a Writer's Guild Award for his Doctor Who. He's the co-host of Hammer House of Podcast. His latest book is the SF novella Rosebud, his latest graphic novel is The Witches of World War II for TKO and his latest comic series is Con and On for Ahoy.

Sci-fi Convention Guest Appearances

27 confirmed guest appearances

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1 hour ago
And so when things got very bad indeed at school, bad in ways which seem unbelievable now, I started writing Doctor Who stories. And when I failed to become a scientist, those stories, in the end, saved me. (End.)


1 hour ago
(And I missed an 11!) The Monster Book is, I think, responsible for so much about my life. Terrance’s amazing words (‘never cruel or cowardly’, there’s a whole ethical code in four words) and that ultra-modern punchy design programmed me with story. 13/?


1 hour ago
I recall sitting on a stile, reading the Monster Book for the first time and having a huge mind-expanding moment when I realised *other people had been Doctor Who!* The fear had pulled me in, the enormity of the universe kept me. 12/?


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