Coming in 2024 is a new book looking at the history and games produced by Firebird Software. In 1984, telecommunications giant British Telecom decided to enter the fray and become a computer games publisher, creating Firebird Software. Firebird produced almost 250 different titles, with classic games including Booty, Thrust, Elite,
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The Doctor Who Production Guide: Hartnell – Publication Delay
IMPORTANT NOTICE: To customers who have been eagerly awaiting the release of The Doctor Who Production Diary: The Hartnell Years: We have been struggling on the pre-prod edit of the book hoping that we might be able to have it ready for November this year, but, sadly, despite all our
Continue reading »News Update – 28/07/23
A book update! Copies of Andrew-Mark Thompson’s THIS IS A FAKE! arrived early, and all the pre-orders have now been despatched. Despite many mentions and warnings online, people still didn’t pre-order and so we ended up running out of the free cardset and album early due to a heavy rush
Continue reading »News Update – 18 May 2023
A few things to announce … it’s been a busy time here at Telos Towers! Firstly, the new, expanded, revised and updated edition of STILL THE BEAST IS FEEDING, now celebrating FIFTY years of ROCKY HORROR should be arriving with us tomorrow (Friday 19 May), and we’ll be sending all
Continue reading »TELOS HEADS INTO SPACE AND BACK IN TIME!
2023 is the sixtieth anniversary of DOCTOR WHO, the BBC’s flagship time-travel series, set to return with Russell T Davies at the helm, and David Tennant returning for a further stint as the Doctor! Telos Publishing, who have long been praised for their exemplary unofficial DOCTOR WHO books and guides,
Continue reading »Christmas 2022 – Update
As usual we here at Telos Towers will be endeavouring to get books out to customers in time for Christmas, but we are at the mercy of: a) The Royal Mail Strikes b) Amazon’s expected delivery times for Print on Demand titles The Royal Mail strikes in the UK for
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Folks in the UK might be aware that the Royal Mail are striking for better pay and job security at present and this is likely to affect books ordered directly from Telos. Details of the strike days can be found here: https://www.royalmail.com/latest-news Currently the following are planned: Friday 30 September
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Everyone needs a holiday, and Telos is taking a couple of weeks off from 11th September to 25th September 2022 … No orders placed through the site will be actioned in this time … We’ll be back to catch up with everything at the end of September.
Continue reading »DELAY ON JOHN NATHAN-TURNER PRODUCTION DIARY
This is to advise that the publication date for THE JOHN NATHAN-TURNER PRODUCTION GUIDE has had to be put back from the 1 May to the 13 May due to a delay at the printers in getting copies to us. We had hoped to have copies for the anniversary of
Continue reading »Shipping Update – 4 February 2022
A quick note to advise that we have again found issues and delays when ordering new packing materials to send out titles ordered … a shipment ordered two weeks ago failed to arrive last week, and when chased this week we found that the supplier had ‘lost’ the order …
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