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Post by Pinwig on Mar 16, 2022 19:34:55 GMT
The imbecile has arrived! Harry Sullivan's War is in the building!
That's it! That's it! a collection over forty years in the making... I have every Doctor Who Target novel!
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 16, 2022 19:38:18 GMT
Actually, you don't.
Think it through...
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 19, 2022 21:25:42 GMT
Flippin heck. Earthlink Dilemma started so well, the first third is spot on mid-80s teenage aimed hard SF. But my word does it go off the rails. What a load of nonsense. The last third just feels like the writer is making it up randomly as he goes along because he doesn't know how to end the story. I think the biggest problem though is that Turlough is absolutely nothing like Turlough. Nothing in the story rings true to his character.
I'm sure Ian Marter has done better with Harry.
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 20, 2022 23:14:10 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 24, 2022 21:27:05 GMT
I bought the new series programme guide on a whim, just to put it with the others. It's a few years old so it only goes to the end of Matt Smith's run, but it's such a good homage to the Lofficer ones. Identical. There's something nice about having a paperback sized episode guide to hand. I hope when Jodie's done the author does an update. I've realised looking at this that there are whole chunks of nu who I've forgotten.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 24, 2022 21:31:03 GMT
I do like a good programme guide. It saddens me that this side of publishing has pretty much died.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 25, 2022 12:53:38 GMT
Today's exciting arrival is the Target Doctor Who Dinosaur Book!
Lovely, almost new condition with the poster. This weekend, Pinwig will learn about dinosaurs 1976 style with Tom Baker.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 25, 2022 15:34:57 GMT
Do keep us informed.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 27, 2022 20:37:46 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 31, 2022 14:42:10 GMT
Today's exciting arrival is the Target Doctor Who Dinosaur Book! Lovely, almost new condition with the poster. This weekend, Pinwig will learn about dinosaurs 1976 style with Tom Baker. You will be VERY excited about what comes with the current DWM. -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 31, 2022 18:35:07 GMT
I am, and also a bit dismayed. It's without a doubt the best freebie they've ever done - a brilliant idea and absolutely lovely to have. A genuine piece of missing Who paraphernalia done to the right size and style of the originals. Perfect, I was gobsmacked when that fell out of the envelope.
But I know what those articles about Target books in DWM this time last year did to prices on eBay; they went mental as everyone got the nostalgia bug and bought heavily. I was half way through my renewed attempt to complete the run at that point and watched as the prices shot up. That was when Evil of the Daleks went from £30 to over £60 in some cases. This time round I've just got a lovely copy of the dinosaur book, which is a prototype for the Discovers series, and was about to launch into getting those because they were really cheap on eBay. They won't be now!
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 31, 2022 18:42:17 GMT
Get in quick!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 1, 2022 18:38:54 GMT
Damn it. Now I will need the rest of the Discovers series too.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 1, 2022 19:22:56 GMT
YOU SEE! YOU SEE!
Everyone will want them. Bloody DWM giving away absolutely brilliant freebies.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 1, 2022 21:34:38 GMT
The Pirates book is just so nice. I need the set.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 1, 2022 22:15:48 GMT
Noooo..........!
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 2, 2022 8:42:10 GMT
Not for a while though. On checking my accounting this morning I discovered that I have buggered up my April pennies somewhat and a few extra bills due in May. So have the lead over me in the Discovers Quest.
PINWIG DISCOVERS QUEST.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 2, 2022 9:12:40 GMT
It's already happening though; there's always a steady trickle of nice condition ones of those on eBay, yet eight have sold in the last three days.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 2, 2022 13:08:20 GMT
Ah shit.
I also see folk are putting Discovers Pirates on Ebay for £10-£15. Twats.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 14, 2022 16:35:07 GMT
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Post by manmiles on Jun 19, 2022 16:35:04 GMT
I received both Rags and Combat Rock in the mail last week.
Prey for me.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 23, 2022 9:59:35 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 3, 2022 20:18:14 GMT
I read Harry Sullivan's War.
It was... better than the Earthlink Dilemma.
In fact it's not a bad attempt at putting the bumbling fool into a James Bond role; it's rough around the edges and a bit contrived, but it's enjoyable enough.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 3, 2022 20:55:35 GMT
My deepest sympathies.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Aug 14, 2022 14:22:02 GMT
I've been doing a bit of a revisit of older DW books. Mostly prompted by the thought that as I'd been reading a lot of Ben Aaronovitch's current work it might be fun to go back and visit some of his earlier work. And as I had The Also People (from the old Virgin books New Adventures line) on the shelf... Still a good read. I'd forgotten how deeply embedded it was in the ongoing meta-story - there is a whole subplot which is somewhat underexplained if you don't already know who a character from previous books is and what they had previously done. On the other hand, watching the Doctor's companions - two of whom are both effectively Street Judges trying to fit in amongst what is an entirely undisguised rip-off of The Culture is almost worth the price of entry to begin with. Aaronovitch's Ships and Drones, sadly, are neither as entertaining or as bitchy as the original Banksie versions though. :-(
One thing led to another and I am currently two-thirds of the way through Kate Orman's Return of the Living Dad. Picked off the shelves mostly because it is such a gloriously silly but entirely accurate title. Despite having some very small continuity links to one of her other books, and being the resolution of Benny Summerfield's character arc that had been in theory going since Love and War this feels much more standalone. Liking the English village setting, and the idea of a group that repatriates stranded aliens before the various British authorities/Conspiracies/jackbooted thugs is so logical in Who fiction that I am amazed it hadn't been done before. Also, it has an Auton fork in it - which is rather endearingly daft.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 15, 2022 10:33:14 GMT
Barry!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 17, 2022 19:22:58 GMT
Did anyone go for the Illustrated Doctor Who and the Daleks? Reading the article about it in DWM rekindled my interest. They're thinking it might be the first in a series of illustrated editions like the beautiful Harry Potter ones. I just wondered what the quality of production was like. The cover looks poor to me though, esp. with the Whittaker logo. And the cover image is no where near as good as all the draft versions shown in the article.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 17, 2022 22:09:07 GMT
I am unsure. It's one I want to see in person before deciding.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 20, 2022 20:49:48 GMT
Visited the parentals this afternoon, which means I got to inspect the archive. I've been trying to find my copy of the Second Doctor Who Monster Book for ages to put with the other Target books and found it not where I thought it was today, but it also drew the old Colin Baker Make Your Own Adventure books to my attention. I thought I had all of them, but have now found I've always had one missing - Mission to Venus is not there. It has been added to The List.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 19, 2023 15:49:12 GMT
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