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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 3, 2014 19:52:07 GMT
Also People is a fave here, love it!
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 3, 2014 22:41:32 GMT
The Also People has my favourite Doctor Who book cover.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 4, 2014 10:02:54 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 4, 2014 10:09:19 GMT
I've read everything up to and including Blood Harvest. That's the point I left University and money got tight. I cherry picked for a while and then bought loads a few years back. Post that point I've read First Frontier, Warlock, Set Piece, Human Nature, Original Sin, Zamper, The Also People and everything Warchild onwards. The only post Warchild book I'm missing is The Dying Days which I've got the BBC website version of.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 4, 2014 10:32:03 GMT
The ones I currently don't have are
The Pit
White Darkness
The Dimension Riders
Conundrum
Theatre of War
All-Consuming Fire
Strange England
St Anthony's Fire
Falls the Shadow
Parasite
Infinite Requiem
Sanctuary
Sky Pirates!
Toy Soldiers
Head Games
Shakedown
Just War
The Dying Days
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 4, 2014 11:17:39 GMT
I had most of them (and most of the bbc books line) but all but a handful have gone due to house moves and/or lack of space. I would pay good money if the whole run was whacked out again digitally.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Jun 4, 2014 18:08:31 GMT
Do you know which others you haven't read Kaptain? I'd read everything up to "No Future" ("Chap with Wings..."), after that it became a bit patchy, and a lot of them I didn't even see on shelves at all. After "No future" the list of books I haven't read is:- Tragedy Day Legacy Blood Harvest St Anthony's Fire Infinite Requiem Sanctuary Human Nature Original Sin Sky Pirates Zamper Toy soldiers Shakedown Just War Warchild SLEEPY Deat and Diplomacy Happy Endings GodEngine Return of the Living Dad The Death of Art Damaged Goods So Vile a Sin Bad Therapy Eternity Weeps The Dying Days Of those I have GodEngine, Return of the Living Dad and Eternity Weeps sitting upstairs in my "to read" pile. Half-read (started but never completed): Lungbarrow About half of the above I literally never saw in any of the bookshops were I was living at the time, once the Missing Adventures started coming out it appeared that there was some pattern of alternating what they got in, so we saw some Missing and some New Adventures but not the whole of either line. Karl Karl |
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Post by primenova on Jun 17, 2014 20:01:00 GMT
Doctor Who: Engines of War
If this is a start of a series or they are just doing book tie ins to last years series. But they are restricted if they start with the War Doctor story being Time war - you can only do so many before it gets to complex with the Timewar being held in a time locked period
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Post by legios on Jun 19, 2014 20:30:07 GMT
Currently reading my way through "Godengine" (I can't just mainline nine Jack Campbell novels in a row, and I need something non-MilSF as a spacer book so the David Weber collection doesn't fit the bill). You can tell this is a Craig Hinton book from the casual deployment of an Itano Circus of continuity references. But you can also tell it is Craig Hinton because they don't feel gratuitous and actually make sense within the structure of the story. So we get adventures on Mars where we meet Ice Warriors, but we get to see their religious caste as well the bloodthirsty warriors we see on television (and the little detail of Ice Warrior religion being heavily based on the Osirians from "Pyramids of Mars" is not only a nice continuity reference but one that makes sense within the frame of Who), we get Stunnel technology from "Transit", the Dalek Invasion of Earth... and it all feels like it is coming together to make a sensible story rather than being a story with continuity references sticking out of it. Good solid stuff, with a decent sense of exploration and mystery to the journey through abandoned Ice Warrior (I do apologise, Indigenous Martian, cities)
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 19, 2014 21:44:51 GMT
I discovered a month or two back that a not-we friend of mine knew Craig through work and wasn't aware that he'd passed away.
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Post by legios on Aug 11, 2014 19:39:35 GMT
Two more New Adventures have been read.
"Return of the Living Dad" is a candidate for most gloriously odd titles for a DW Book ever, as it combines a literal "does what it says on the tin" and some great bad wordplay. Quite enjoyed this - not perhaps to the same degree as some of Kate Orman's other work. Perhaps it is that given my own lack of a close relationship with my father I don't quite "grok" stories about characters who are strongly driven by the influence of a father figure... Still, there is enough else going on in the book that it held my attention quite well. It also has one of the best ghost/manifestation/noncorporeal creatures in Doctor Who - genuinely creepy when you realise what is really going on with that element.
"Eternity Weeps": Now this, this is something else. A genuine tour-de-force by Jim Mortimore. Grim, unrelenting and frankly disturbing in places. If you wanted to point to something to prove that the New Adventures produced truly mature fiction then this is a prime candidate. A real sense of doom pervades the book - helped by it containing one of the most shocking and emotionally-affecting things ever done with a former companion - and the idea that a victory here can only be secured at a horrendous cost is threaded right through the book. Dark, disturbing in places, but very compelling reading. (So much so that it was only after the event that it occured to me that the books plot hinges around two pieces of epic scale crack-pottery. At the time the strength of the drama pulled me past, and it was only afterward I stopped to admire the sheer effrontery of presenting such enormously crackpot concepts with an utterly straight face - and getting away with it).
Karl
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 6, 2014 16:12:46 GMT
Just read Return of the Living Dad courtesy of Karl.
Great fun, light hearted enough considering some of what was being dealt with. Always nice to see the presence of the Daleks being felt, even when not directly involved.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 24, 2014 8:48:50 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 24, 2014 18:15:48 GMT
Meant to link to that. I too will be giving that some cash when it comes round.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 28, 2014 16:41:38 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 28, 2014 18:52:54 GMT
Still no Mad Larry reprints.
Boooo
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 4, 2014 18:00:06 GMT
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Post by legios on Dec 4, 2014 21:50:24 GMT
Still no Mad Larry reprints. Boooo Andy Indeed, more people need to be exposed to the mad genius of Lawrence Miles in his prime. Talking about that reminds me I still have a couple of the "one for each Doctor" reprints to read to complete that set. "Earthworld" should be next but I seem to have been side-tracked by a rather large pile of "Wild Cards" stuff. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 9, 2014 13:59:43 GMT
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Post by blueshift on Jan 1, 2015 13:45:17 GMT
I am reading Warmonger after finally finding a copy.
It's a hell of a book. I think Terrance Dicks finally cracked.
Everyone thinks constantly about rape(ing Peri). Apart from the Doctor. He thinks constantly about killing people. The fifth Doctor, mind. That's when he isn't murdering pterodactyls with his teeth.
I really want to believe it is a satire on Eric Saward. I don't think it is though...
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Post by blueshift on Jan 15, 2015 23:53:06 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 15, 2015 23:56:57 GMT
Mortimore is splendidly mental.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 16, 2015 19:44:35 GMT
heh!
What a legend!
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 19, 2015 18:15:08 GMT
I enjoyed Time Trips, the print collection of the recent e-book short stories. Recalls the glory days of BBC Books in terms of quality for the most part. I defy anyone to read the end of 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Time Traveller' without experiencing a lump in the throat. It is to do with what happened to the 3rd Doctor after him leaving Metabelis III when he was dying at the end of Planet of Spiders. Sniff. Clever stuff.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 20, 2015 22:16:21 GMT
Might seek that out then.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 9, 2015 20:37:50 GMT
I've yet to see it at retail but the library had City Of Death in last weekend so I have grabbed it. Now I have cleared my backlog of physical comics I can read it. Intrigued to see what James Goss does with it.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 9, 2015 22:36:29 GMT
I've been looking in smiths for it for the last couple of weeks but have yet to see one. I thought having the Adams name attached to it, it would at least chart.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 10, 2015 17:58:58 GMT
Enjoying it much more than the TV serial so far. Goss is more successful in aping Adams' style while still doing his own thing than some others have managed.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 16, 2015 10:25:50 GMT
Polished off last night. In the grand tradition of Target books of old it's much better than the tv serial. Characters are fleshed out more, non-sequitors and plot holes are neatly tied up, the humour is more balanced and the internal logic is tighter. What was a crap cliffhanger to part 3 on telly is a highlight of dull horror. I've never been a big fan of the TV serial (irritating music, Lord Tom mugging far too much and very languid direction) but I did quite enjoy the book version. Now I can see why folk who love the tv story really love it.
-Ralph
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Post by Jim on Aug 28, 2015 22:36:09 GMT
The awesome local second hand bookshop had a fresh wave of minty-looking Target novelisations. I picked up Monster of Peladon, The Edge of Destruction, The Time Monster and The War Machines, none of which I read back in the day. Just in time for holiday!
-Jim
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