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Post by Philip Ayres on May 22, 2010 19:59:07 GMT
Auton Invasion, Cave Monsters, Doomsday Weapon, Daemons & Day of the Daleks are reckoned to be the best of the earliest ones. Also try Daleks, Dalek Invasion of Earth, Tenth Planet, The Cybermen, Tomb of the Cybermen, Abomniable Snowmen, Ice Warriors, Web of Fear, Three Doctors, Carnival of Monsters, Green Death, Giant Robot, Genesis of the Daleks, Revenge of the Cybermen and Loch Ness Monster.....
The range goes into a trough but of the later books: Inferno, Invasion, Myth Makers, Gunfighters, Fury from the Deep, Rememberance of the Daleks, The Chase, Mission to the Unknown, Mutation of Time, Power of the Daleks and Evil of the Daleks are all worth a read.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2010 21:31:33 GMT
Talk about not giving somebody much choice! ;D
I think I may pick a few of them out of that list and see about reading them once I've finished reading my James Bond novels but at the moment I'm getting back into the Chronicles of Narnia books so it won't be for a bit of a while yet.
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Post by blueshift on May 22, 2010 22:04:06 GMT
I'd advise any of the Virgin / BBC paperbacks really, but if you want to go for classic series novelisations....
Most of the Sylvester McCoy ones are good, in particular Remembrance of the Daleks, Curse of Fenric, Dragonfire, Happiness Patrol and Paradise Towers. The writers are usually the same ones who wrote the TV episodes, and put a load more ideas into the books that never made it onto screen. Remembrance was particularly influential. Paradise Towers shows the dark, gripping story that the tv version SHOULD have been, if it wasn't made to be an overlit comedic kids show with Richard Briars doing his best hitler impression.
For the same reason, the book of Warriors of the Deep is fantastic.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2010 10:00:09 GMT
As a kid I read several Dr Who books that somebody here pointed out were done by Target. Is there a list of these books anywhere that maybe I could have a look at and perhaps pick a few out from those?
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Post by blueshift on May 23, 2010 10:31:39 GMT
Here we go: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doctor_Who_novelisationsAs a general guide, most were written for kids, the earliest being the most kiddy, the latest being more teenage-orientated. The ones written by the same person who wrote the tv episode it was based on are usually the best. |
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2010 13:04:14 GMT
They're the ones that I remembered reading as a kid. Some of the book covers and also titles of the books ring a bell with me. The author Terrance Dicks who wrote some of the books also rings a bell. I think it was some of his Dr Who books that I read back in the day.
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Post by The Doctor on May 24, 2010 17:41:10 GMT
Terrance Dicks is a God.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 26, 2010 0:49:51 GMT
Eternity Weeps: Depressing. You break up a marriage only begun 8 months ago, cameo a past companion for less then a dozen pages just to kill her off, have a subplot about the moon coming into Earth's orbit from elsewhere and hardly use the Silurian character, forget the Doctor's there for most of the book and kill a few billion people. Slow to get going with lots of mucking about in the desert at the start the second half feels very rushed with the page count being about 50 pages light of most NAs.
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Post by The Doctor on May 26, 2010 17:42:08 GMT
It was one of the stand-out NA's for me, but I can understand that it wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 1, 2010 20:45:33 GMT
The Room With No Doors yeah not too bad at all, worked for me. Don't usually do historical settings so was surprised, but I usually like Kate Orman's books so.....
Time to print out Lungbarrow.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 3, 2010 13:47:38 GMT
I haven't read Lungbarrow in an age. I might just reread it (via printout) and compare notes with you Phil.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 3, 2010 19:10:48 GMT
I remember the paperback being turgid yet strangely compelling, though much of the tension came from it being the 7th Doc's 'last' big adventure.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 4, 2010 11:06:31 GMT
I'm trying to work out a decent font size for the Lungbarrow print out. What I'm looking at at the mo is something between 12 and 15pt and printing 2 pages per page of A4. I know the original page count was 256 pages so.... Anyone got any other thoughts on how I should print it ? |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 4, 2010 11:07:17 GMT
Finished Parallel 59 Nothing special but worked for me....
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Post by blueshift on Jun 4, 2010 14:33:41 GMT
Finished Parallel 59 Nothing special but worked for me.... Yeah, Parallel 59 is just 'there'. That's a Steven Cole one isn't it? Pretty much all his books are just plodding treading-water books. Nothing especially bad but nothing great either. Just there. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 4, 2010 15:28:51 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 5, 2010 18:07:29 GMT
Finished Parallel 59 Nothing special but worked for me.... Yeah, Parallel 59 is just 'there'. That's a Steven Cole one isn't it? Pretty much all his books are just plodding treading-water books. Nothing especially bad but nothing great either. Just there. He was a great line editor, though his fiction doesn't do it for me. He has my respect though. For a while there, WHO was such a low priority at the Beeb that he was responsible for everything: fiction, non-fiction, VHS releases, early DVD and kickstarted the proper release of missing stories on CD. And he had the good sense to commission stories that weren't his cup of tea, but that he thought would find readers, ie Mad Larry's Alien Bodies. -Ralph |
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Post by blueshift on Jun 5, 2010 18:59:38 GMT
Oh yes definately, he was an absolutely amazing editor, just a humdrum writer sadly
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 12, 2010 10:02:52 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 12, 2010 11:38:38 GMT
Pre-order is already in at Amazon!
Andy
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 12, 2010 11:40:18 GMT
And reading the press release it looks like it fits in with his Multiverse.
Dammit I now need a Doctor Who/Elric crossover!!!
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 11, 2010 10:02:07 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 24, 2010 0:37:45 GMT
Demontage was rather good, enjoyed it muchly. Dominion wasn't bad either.
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Post by blueshift on Jul 24, 2010 20:20:35 GMT
I read Blue Box on the train the other day, amazing book! It is written in the style of an investigative journalist's book about his adventure with the Doctor, but since it is from his POV the Doctor is characterised as an eccentric english hacker who lives on a boat!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 24, 2010 20:29:53 GMT
A little behind with the books. Due to rearranging the house while we were decorating I accidentally jumped out of sequence and read Camera Obscura which wasn't bad, but the fantastic Time Zero worked just as well for me this time out as previously. I know it wasn't a fave elsewhere.....
Currently reading Coldheart which has been sooooo slow at the start....
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Post by legios on Aug 26, 2010 21:33:48 GMT
A little behind with the books. Due to rearranging the house while we were decorating I accidentally jumped out of sequence and read Camera Obscura which wasn't bad, but the fantastic Time Zero worked just as well for me this time out as previously. I know it wasn't a fave elsewhere..... Wasn't really my thing, but I think that a lot of my antipathy to it stems from its role in starting off a meta-plot that eventually drove me steadily away from the BBC Books Who stuff rather than the book itself. Certainly I don't feel as strongly about it as I do about some of those that came afterwards. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 27, 2010 9:50:49 GMT
IIRC Time Zero was one of several books when the shittest companion ever (Anji) left then came back again, having learned nothing.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 31, 2010 19:05:52 GMT
I finished The Space Age by Steve Lyons. It was pish. Worst DW novel I've read.
I've had more interest in the first two chapters of Anacrophobia than I've had in this.
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Post by blueshift on Aug 31, 2010 20:54:21 GMT
Oh god, I could have warned you about that book! The blurb on the back makes it sound amazing too, which is an even bigger kick in the nuts!
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 31, 2010 21:02:33 GMT
It was alright, though Lyons has done much better.
Just started on Nightshade by Mark Gatiss. Currently flooded with nostalgia for the New Adventures.
-Ralph
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