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Big Finish is competing against itself for the 2017 Best Audio Scribe Award, which will be announced at ComicCon in July.

The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers’ Scribe Awards acknowledge excellence in this very competitive field, and honour licenced works that tie in with other media such as television, movies, gaming, or comic books. They include original works set in established universes, and adaptations of stories that have appeared in other formats and that cross all genres. Tie-in works run the gamut from westerns to mysteries to procedurals, from science fiction to fantasy to horror, from action and adventure to superheroes.

Two Torchwood titles – Joseph Lidster’s Broken and David Llewellyn’s Uncanny Valley – are in contention with Roy Gill’s Dark Shadows tale Blood & Fire and John Pritchard’s Doctor Who story The Mouthless Dead.

Four X-Files stories are among the five nominations for Best Short Fiction while Dayton Ward’s Star Trek novel Elusive Salvation is up for Best Speculative Original alongside Tim Waggoner’s Supernatural story Mythmaker.

The full list:

Best Adapted – General and Speculative

Assassin’s Creed by Christie Golden
Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins
Suicide Squad by Marv Wolfman

Best Audio

Dark Shadows: Blood & Fire by Roy Gill
Torchwood: Broken by Joseph Lidster
Torchwood: Uncanny Valley by David Llewellyn
Doctor Who: Mouthless Dead by John Pritchard

Best General Original

24: Trial by Fire by Dayton Ward
Don Pendleton’s The Executioner: Missile Intercept by Michael Black
Murder Never Knocks by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins
Robert B. Parker’s Slow Burn by Ace Atkins
Tom Clancy’s True Faith and Allegiance by Mark Greaney

Short Fiction

“A Dangerous Cat” by Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins
X-Files “Drive Time” by Jon McGoran
X-Files “An Eye for an Eye” by George Ivanoff
X-Files “Love Lost” by Yvonne Navarro
X-Files “XXX” by Glenn Greenberg

Best Speculative Original

Assassin’s Creed: Heresy by Christie Golden
Warhammer 40,000: Warden of the Blade by David Annandale
Star Trek: Elusive Salvation by Dayton Ward
Supernatural: Mythmaker by Tim Waggoner