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'''''Trading Futures''''' is a [[BBC Books]] original novel written by [[Lance Parkin]] and based on the long-running British [[science fiction on television|science fiction television]] series ''[[Doctor Who]]''. It features the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Fitz Kreiner|Fitz]] and [[Anji Kapoor|Anji]]. This book, along with a few others in the series, was reprinted in 2011 and is available to purchase as an e-book. One of the enemies in the book are the Onihr, a large [[rhinoceros]]-like species, notable due to their similarity to the [[Judoon]].
'''''Trading Futures''''' is a [[BBC Books]] original novel written by [[Lance Parkin]] and based on the long-running British [[science fiction on television|science fiction television]] series ''[[Doctor Who]]''. It features the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Fitz Kreiner|Fitz]] and [[Anji Kapoor|Anji]]. This book, along with a few others in the series, was reprinted in 2011 and is available to purchase as an e-book.


==Writing and development==
The cover and elements of the story are spoofs of the [[James Bond]] movies.
The cover and elements of the story are spoofs of the [[James Bond]] movies. The novel features a Bond-like character named Jonah Cosgrove, described by the author thus: “Cosgrove is (and I mean ‘is’ here in the very precise, non-trademark violating, sense of the word) the [[Sean Connery]] Bond, but one who never retired and who's been a secret agent for fifty years. So he's about eighty, and all the time he's just been piling on more muscles and getting more wrinkled, and ever more set in his ways and bitter and anachronistic. He's Sean Connery in [[The Rock (film)|The Rock]], as drawn by [[Frank Miller (comics)|Frank Miller]], and by now he's been promoted to [[M (James Bond)|M]].”

The novel features a Bond-like character named Jonah Cosgrove, described by the author thus: “Cosgrove is (and I mean ‘is’ here in the very precise, non-trademark violating, sense of the word) the [[Sean Connery]] Bond, but one who never retired and who's been a secret agent for fifty years. So he's about eighty, and all the time he's just been piling on more muscles and getting more wrinkled, and ever more set in his ways and bitter and anachronistic. He's Sean Connery in [[The Rock (film)|The Rock]], as drawn by [[Frank Miller (comics)|Frank Miller]], and by now he's been promoted to [[M (James Bond)|M]].”

==See also==
* [[Outline of James Bond]]


==External links==
==External links==

Latest revision as of 10:00, 25 September 2024

Trading Futures
AuthorLance Parkin
SeriesDoctor Who book:
Eighth Doctor Adventures
Release number
55
SubjectFeaturing:
Eighth Doctor
Fitz and Anji
PublisherBBC Books
Publication date
April 2002
Pages247
ISBN0-563-53848-1
Preceded byAnachrophobia 
Followed byThe Book of the Still 

Trading Futures is a BBC Books original novel written by Lance Parkin and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji. This book, along with a few others in the series, was reprinted in 2011 and is available to purchase as an e-book.

Writing and development

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The cover and elements of the story are spoofs of the James Bond movies. The novel features a Bond-like character named Jonah Cosgrove, described by the author thus: “Cosgrove is (and I mean ‘is’ here in the very precise, non-trademark violating, sense of the word) the Sean Connery Bond, but one who never retired and who's been a secret agent for fifty years. So he's about eighty, and all the time he's just been piling on more muscles and getting more wrinkled, and ever more set in his ways and bitter and anachronistic. He's Sean Connery in The Rock, as drawn by Frank Miller, and by now he's been promoted to M.”

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