2008 books
48) Peter Davison's Book of Alien Monsters, 1982
49) Peter Davison's Book of Alien Planets, 1983
I've done some detective work about these two small volumes that had the most tenuous connection with Who. As y/a SF these short stories are all competent or better, but the curiosity is that the blurbs state they were all chosen by Peter Davison as his favourites - not likely at all, as all but one in Monsters are unique to the book and have never appeared anywhere else (the exception being PKD's 'Beyond Lies the Wub'), whereas only one in Planets is by an unrecognised author, Stephen David (among the rest are two from Arthur C. Clarke, others by Ray Bradbury and Mary Gentle). They were actually put together by Richard Evans (who went uncredited), then editor at Arrow and later with Gollancz. But then there's still the small mystery of 'Stephen David': Dave Langford (who had a story in Monsters) tells me it was a pseudonym of Evans himself... so he put his own stories in each volume and commissioned Chris Foss to illustrate them for the covers. What's the point of editorial privilege if you don't abuse it now and then?