July 17, 2025
Get ready for even more adventures when Firefall and Counterstrike release on 2nd October.
Two brand-new Doctor Who audio original adventures, Firefall and Counterstrike, will launch on 2nd October 2025 on Audible, Spotify, and all other audiobook platforms.
Bringing fresh storylines and excitement to the Whoniverse and featuring the Fifteenth Doctor and Belinda Chandra, these gripping standalone tales are written by acclaimed authors Beth Axford and Una McCormack. The readings are accompanied by sound design and the familiar Doctor Who theme music.
Doctor Who: Firefall
Michelle Asante, who recently played Abena in The Story & the Engine and also appears in In the Forest of the Night, reads Beth Axford’s sensitive tale of outsiders in search of a place to call home.
Floating high above Earth, the Doctor and Belinda enjoy the legendary Leonids meteor shower of 1833, when the skies teemed with shooting stars. One meteor is bigger and brighter than the others and shows no sign of breaking up in the planetary atmosphere. The travellers follow it to the village of Drummondville and begin the hunt for a fallen star. There’s a strained atmosphere in the sleepy town, where two buildings mysteriously caught fire overnight. Belinda meets young Mary Moss, who’s harbouring something extraordinary – something that must be kept safe from the other villagers.
What strange entity has landed, and how might it affect all life on Earth? The Doctor and Belinda try to broker peace between Leo and its human hosts, before things get out of control…
(1 hour 10 minutes)
Beth Axford is a freelance author, editor, journalist and podcast host. Her recent work includes editing Puffin’s Doctor Who book range, as well as penning several short story adventures for the Doctor, plus regular reporting for Doctor Who Magazine. She is also the author of the upcoming Official Doctor Who Quiz Book.
Doctor Who: Counterstrike
Clare Corbett (Doctor Who: The Good Doctor) reads an exciting new adventure of systems error and the perils of automation written by Una McCormack.
Landing on an unnamed planet, the Doctor and Belinda find themselves besieged by a swarm of drones. They shelter in a cluster of hi-tech buildings, they find living quarters and a control base. The only thing missing is any sign of life. While the Doctor puzzles over a base without people, Belinda finds herself whisked away by teleport.
Meanwhile, three thousand light years away, project manager Hazzet is puzzled by unusual systems activity on the uninhabited Colony 5. An automated probe was sent there months ago - so why are there now apparently two bases on the planet, each poised to attack the other?
With the Doctor in one base and Belinda in the other, a race against time begins to avoid mutually assured destruction…
(1 hour 10 minutes)
Dr. Una McCormack is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling science fiction writer of more than twenty novels, plus many audio dramas and short stories. These novels include four Doctor Who novels for the New Series Adventures range: The King's Dragon (2010), The Way Through the Woods (2011), Royal Blood (2015) and Molten Heart (2018).
