Rob Shearman

Rob Shearman is a British writer for television, radio, stage, and prose fiction, best known to Doctor Who fans as the author of Dalek, the critically acclaimed episode that reintroduced the Doctor's most famous enemies to the revived series in 2005. His novelisation Doctor Who: Dalek expands on this landmark episode, deepening the psychological and emotional dimensions of the story in which a lone Dalek confronts the Ninth Doctor in an underground vault, creating one of the most intense and morally complex encounters in the show's history. Shearman's career extends far beyond Doctor Who: he is a prolific and award-winning writer of short fiction, having won the World Fantasy Award and the Shirley Jackson Award, and his collections, including Tiny Deaths, Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, and They Do the Same Things Different There, are celebrated for their dark wit, surreal imagination, and emotional depth. His radio plays for the BBC have won multiple awards, and his work for the stage has been produced internationally. Shearman's writing across all media is characterised by its intelligence, its dark humour, and its willingness to find the strange and unsettling within the familiar. Doctor Who: Dalek is available as an audiobook, offering listeners a powerful, emotionally charged story that transforms the series' most iconic villain into something genuinely sympathetic and terrifying.