Well, I’m flattered. Really, I am. In 2008 I wrote a short children’s story called  Alien Bob. You can find it on Amazon Kindle here:

Alien Bob

So to see a grown building in the Doctor Who story The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe was pretty cool. Actually Alien Bob’s grown buildings pop up irregularly in the entire Alien Characters series in Series 1 and will feature in stories in Series 2 so perhaps this will get kids thinking about the possibility of growing a building. One day we may get some scientists actually doing it.

Of course, grown buildings have been talked about for decades so having them appear in a couple of science fiction series within a few years of each other is probably a coincidence – still, it would be nice if Steven Moffat had read Alien Bob. Maybe it will give me a foot in the door sometime in the future for getting an actual script in Doctor Who.  (I know most scripts have already been commissioned for 2012-2013 and there’ll probably be a break in 2014. Then 2015 is likely to be time for a new doctor to be introduced which means only expert writers will be brought back for that season, so I’m aiming for 2016!)

Here’s a picture from Alien Bob of a Town Hall being grown.

Cheers!

Neil

P.S. To find out more about the Alien Characters series and the other ebooks available for Amazon Kindle, both illustrated and text-only, please visit Alien Characters