June 2019, it was leaked that Roberts' contribution for a Doctor Who short story collection had been dropped due to his previous tweets, as well as the threat from other writers to withdraw their contributions. Roberts responded with a blog post on Medium in which he stated: "I don’t believe in gender identity. It is impossible for a person to change their biological sex." Personal life Roberts is gay. Bibliography Books The Highest Science (Doctor Who New Adventure, 1993) Tragedy Day (Doctor Who New Adventure, 1994) Zamper (Doctor Who New Adventure, 1995) The Romance of Crime (Doctor Who Missing Adventure, 1995) To be a Somebody (Cracker novelisation, 1996) Best Boys (Cracker novelisation, 1996) The English Way of Death (Doctor Who Missing Adventure, 1996) The Plotters (Doctor Who Missing Adventure, 1996) The Well-Mannered War (Doctor Who Missing Adventure, 1997) Only Human (Doctor Who New Series Adventure, 2005) I am a Dalek (Doctor Who New Series Adventure, 2006) Shada: The Lost Adventure by Douglas Adams (Doctor Who Novelisation. 2012) Short stories Short stories in: Decalog 2: Lost Property (1995) Decalog 3: Consequences (1996) More Short Trips (1999) Short Trips and Sidesteps (2000) Short Trips: The Muses (2003) Doctor Who Annual 2006 (2005) The Doctor Who Storybook 2007 (2006) Television scripts References External links Disposable Media Issue 9 Interview BBC Books to publish novelisation of Douglas Adams' Shada SFX interview about adapting "Shada" 1968 births Living people Alumni of Liverpool John Moores University Alumni of the University of Winchester British soap opera writers British television writers British science fiction writers English television writers English screenwriters English male screenwriters English soap opera writers British gay writers British LGBT screenwriters English LGBT writers Writers of Doctor Who novels 20th-century British novelists 21st-century British novelists British male television writers