Released! Into the wild! Like a herd of Daleks…or Quarks! (Everyone loves the Quarks, right?)
Anyway, yes, the Table of Contents for Companion Piece is now out, and here it is:
• The Impossible Girls by Deborah Stanish
• That Nitro-9 You’re Not Carrying: Violence and the Companion by Seanan McGuire
• Scheherazade and Galahad in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks by Mags L. Halliday
• Steven Taylor, Space Adventurer! by L.M. Myles
• Scintillating, Fascinating, Irritating by Liz Barr
• I Don’t Want Her to Go by Amy Gaertner
• “What a Splendid-Looking Roman You Make!”: The Male Companions, from Ian to Rory by Emma Nichols
• A Different Way of Living by Julia duMais
• We, Robots by Erika Ensign
• The Damned Don’t Cry by Sarah Groenewegen
• Stories and Fairytales: Feminism, Agency and Narrative Control with the Pond Family Women by Karen K. Burrows
• The Shakespeare Race Code by Amanda-Rae Prescott
• “I Can Do Your Part If You Can Do Mine”: Romana II as the Girl Doctor by Gwynne Garfinkle
• Mouth on Legs by Tehani Wessely
• From “There’s Nothing Only About Being a Girl” to “The Most Important Woman in the Whole of Creation”: Feminism and the Female Companions by Linnea Dodson
• Where in Eternity… is Josephine Grant Jones? by Joan Frances Turner
• Forever Playing Second Fiddle: How Sarah Jane and the Rest of Us are being Sold Short by Nina Allan
• The Barbara Strain by Lynne M. Thomas
• The Curious Case of Miss Victoria Waterfield by Jennifer Adams Kelley
• “Where Do I Fit In?”: The Tale of Perpugilliam Brown by Stephanie Lai
• My Doctor: Harry Sullivan by Sarah McDermott
• Donna: Noble by Name and Noble by Nature by Karen Miller
• Rewriting History with Sticky Notes: Narrative, Agency and Bernice Summerfield by Emma Ward
• Scientists, Not Office Boys: Zoe and Liz, Science-Heroes by Anna Livingston
• The Uses of Turlough by Anne Goldsmith
• Amy‘s Choice: Doctor Who Companions and the Nightmare of Domesticity by Una McCormack
• The Ones He Leaves Behind by Foz Meadows
• Science Princess FTW by Mary Robinette Kowal
• Origin Story by Aneira Vaughn
• What Has Romana Ever Done For Us? by Phoebe Taylor
• The Heroine of Her Own Story by Britany Harrison and Liz Barr
• Sara Kingdom Dies at the End by Tansy Rayner Roberts
• A Question of Emphasis: The Doctor as Companion by Amal El-Mohtar
Tis a cunning mix of professional and fan writers with all sorts of things to say on the humans, aliens and tin dogs that accompany the Doctor in his travels; a plethora of thought-provoking, exciting, fun, nostalgic, omg-now-I-have-to-watch-all-of-Doctor-Who-at-once essays that, by turns, make you look at the companions anew in all sorts of wonderful ways, air-punch with yay, or attempt to hug your entire Doctor Who DVD collection at once…that may just be me. Shusht, I’m a totally well-adjusted human person, promise.
But it does look just a little bit awesome, yes, and, having read the thing quite a few times, I can also tell you factually that it is, in actual fact, awesome. So very proud of this book, and the work done by all the contributors, and my marvellous co-editor Liz Barr.
Mags L. Halliday also has a fab essay on her blog accompanying the announcement, about being female fans, and the complexities involved in countering gender bias.
The print version of Companion Piece is available for pre-order at All Major Book Retailers (here’s Amazon and Barnes & Noble), and the ebook can be pre-ordered on the Kindle or Kobo.
And if you’re coming to Gallifrey 2015, there should be advance copies on sale at the Alien Entertainment table.
Lizbeth Myles 
I am so very excited for this book that my palms are sweaty. The titles of the pieces are, themselves, brilliant.