Editing Blake's 7 (section)

=== Books and magazines ===
''Blake's 7'' books were produced by various authors and publishers. The first was entitled ''Blake's 7'', written by [[Trevor Hoyle]] and Terry Nation, and published during 1978 (novelising the first-series episodes ''The Way Back'', ''Space Fall'', ''Cygnus Alpha'' and ''Time Squad''). Its US title was ''Blake's 7&nbsp;– Their First Adventure''.<ref name="B7 Programme Guide/Merchandise"/> Hoyle wrote two more books of the series: ''Blake's 7: Project Avalon'' (1979, novelising the episodes ''Seek–Locate–Destroy'', ''Duel'', ''Project Avalon'', ''Deliverance'' and ''Orac'' from the first series) and ''Blake's 7: Scorpio Attack'' (1981, novelising the episodes ''Rescue'', ''Traitor'' and ''Stardrive'' from the fourth series).<ref name="Novel">{{Cite journal | last = Pixley | first = Andrew |date=Winter 1994 | title = A Novel Approach | journal = Blake's 7 Winter Special | page = 51 | issn = 1353-761X}}</ref> Publications continued to be issued after the series had ended. Tony Attwood's ''Blake's 7: The Programme Guide'', published by Target during 1982, is a factual overview of the series with a detailed episode guide, an encyclopedia, and interviews with the cast and writers. It was re-issued by Virgin Books during 1994.<ref name="B7 Programme Guide/Merchandise"/> Attwood also wrote an original novel named ''Afterlife'', which is set after the final episode and was published by Target during 1984.<ref name="B7 Programme Guide/Merchandise"/> Another original novel, ''[[Avon: A Terrible Aspect]]'' by Paul Darrow, told the story of Avon's early years before he met Blake, and was published during 1989.<ref name="Novel"/>

[[World Distributors]] produced ''Blake's 7 [[Annual publication|Annuals]]'' for 1979, 1980 and 1981. These featured stories, games, artwork and articles about space.<ref name="B7 Programme Guide/Merchandise"/> During October 1981 [[Marvel UK]] began publishing the monthly ''Blake's 7'' magazine, which included a comic strip by Ian Kennedy as well as text stories, features and photographs. Twenty-five issues including two 'specials' were published, until the magazine closed during August 1983.<ref name="B7 Programme Guide/Merchandise"/><ref name="Novel"/> Marvel produced two 'special' magazines during 1994 and 1995, with much of the content written by television historian Andrew Pixley and about how the series was made. Seven issues of ''Blake's 7 Poster Magazine'' were published between December 1994 and May 1995.<ref>
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Several books offering insight and background information to ''Blake's 7'' were produced, including ''Blake's 7: The Complete Guide'' by [[Adrian Rigelsford]] (Boxtree, 1995), ''Blake's 7: The Inside Story'' by Joe Nazzaro and Sheelagh Wells (Virgin, 1997), ''A History and Critical Analysis of Blake's 7'' by John Kenneth Muir (McFarland and Company, 1999), and ''Liberation. The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Blake's 7'' by Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore (Telos, 2003).<ref>
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