Best Seller ( short story ) Best Seller was the first short story in the Short Trips anthology " " . It was written by Ian Mond and Danny Oz . It featured the Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard . Summary . The Doctor and Charley are enjoying a meal in Melbourne . While the Doctor chats with a man named Tristan , Charley observes the crowd . An armoured truck pulls up in front of the Brunswick Street Bookstore , and suddenly , Tristan runs to the bookstore . The crowd surges toward the bookstore , and the Doctor heads that way as well , warning Charley to stay back . They see Tristan climb out of an upper storey window , clutching something ; he falls to the pavement , surviving only to be kicked to death in the crowd . Charley is almost trampled but manages to get away . The Doctor and Charley retreat to a café by the beach . Charley is shaken by the violence she has witnessed . The Doctor has retrieved the item that Tristan was carrying . It is a Biblio - Tablet containing " The Darvias Saga " . The tablet was activated by Tristan , so the Doctor has to adjust its retina scanner so anyone can read the book . The Doctor has sent Charley to find out about the publishers of the book . Instead , she encounters the Movement for Real Literature , a group protesting " The Darvias Saga " . When they learn she does not approve of the violence caused by the book ' s readers , they welcome her enthusiastically to their headquarters . Meanwhile , the Doctor begins reading the book . He is enthralled . When a boy named Mitch approaches , the Doctor reads the story out loud to him . Charley and the group have met at leader Bruce Gillespie ' s house . They watch on the television an announcement made by " Darvias " author Nathaniel Clamp that a will be released in New York City . The group decide that Clamp must die . Charley phones the Doctor . He tells her the tablets contain an alien signal . He tells her to convince the group to do nothing until she hears from him again . After he hangs up , the Doctor continues to read the story aloud to a large group of people . Days later , Charley has not heard from the Doctor . Bruce decides to go ahead with their plan . One of the group members , Henry , obtains weapons and passports and the three travel to New York City . Several aliens , including Mr Tluss and Mr Marg , are watching the New York restless crowd on a large screen . For them it is entertainment . They learn that the Doctor has materialised in their warehouse and obtains a tablet containing the prequel . He then visits the aliens in their board room . They welcome him and explain that they like to " watch the antics of the lower races " . They are behind the whole " Darvias " scheme . They aren ' t interested in sales of the book ; they are interested in the havoc caused by obsessive fans . In New York , Charley has a clear line of sight to Clamp . She raises her gun and fires . . . In the board room , the Doctor and the aliens watch on screen as the camera focuses on Charley . However , she has not shot Clamp , but instead shot Bruce in the shoulder . An angry Henry prepares to shoot Charley but he attracts the attention of security and is stopped . Meanwhile , the rumour spreads through the crowd that the Darvias prequel is on the internet . The Doctor explains to the aliens that he uploaded the contents of the prequel onto the internet . Though Mr Marg says they will kill him , Mr Tluss says they are not savages . They will leave Earth and move on to the next thing . Charley and the Doctor reunite , and the Doctor reassures Charley that she did the right thing in not killing Clamp . Mr Tluss prepares a pitch to his board of directors . There are nano - camera s on the Doctor , and Mr Tluss promises a new form of entertainment — the Doctor . Notes . " to be added " Continuity . " to be added "