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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 4, 2010 19:05:15 GMT
So was Anacrophobia one of the best Doctor Who books I've read? Yup. Strijng for the best part of the book telling a great under siege story with some genuinelyu creepy monsters. It falls over a little towards the end: basically anything after they arrive in the city. The idea of the war being directed by an inteligence who's lost contact with it's superiors seems very familiar from somewhere. I think the Doctor's soloution was clever but I was rather tired when I got to that bit. And the late in the day reveal that a character that's been in most of the book is a recurring DW Book character felt a bit shoe horned in with very little lead up (except, perhaps, for a small clue in the name if you've read later DW Books)
Well worth a read. dirt cheap on eBay.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 4, 2010 19:09:35 GMT
It's very good, only let down by the following book completely ignoring the (almost) cliffhanger ending. It was, though, the only time I was actually surprised by the appearance of Recurring Character as opposed to most of the books of the era which often just marked time until they turned up.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 8, 2010 22:18:42 GMT
Trading Futures wasn't bad. Nothing Earth shattering, but decent enough.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 12, 2010 18:12:10 GMT
an interesting find on amazon:
Goto books
Search on Doctor Who
Order by Publication Date
scroll back to 28 Feb 2011
Whole bunch of Kate Orman and Lance Parkin reprints courtesy of the BBC.
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Post by blueshift on Sept 12, 2010 18:54:24 GMT
Hmmmm. That is pretty odd and a bit random. It'd be nice if they reprinted So Vile A Sin though! Don't tease me, amazon!
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 12, 2010 19:57:17 GMT
Er, random mix of old Virgin and BBC Books titles. Looks like Amazon phantoms to me. If you click on some the publisher is listed as Virgin Books who no longer exist as a fiction publisher.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 12, 2010 20:04:28 GMT
Some digging online reveals what used to be Virgin Books was bought by Random House, who now publish material for the BBC. Hmmm.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 17, 2010 13:30:58 GMT
It's not that random a selection, it's most of the books by just two authors: Orman and Parkin. So Vile .... is mainly written by Orman if memory serves.
I own So Vile.... and didn't pay too much for it either !
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Post by blueshift on Sept 17, 2010 13:40:24 GMT
I love Parkin, but Orman is one of those writers who has a great reputation but has never really done it for me.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 17, 2010 15:26:20 GMT
Parkin has made some comments on these rumours on GB, but they're so obtuse I have no idea what's going on!
-Ralph
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Post by Gav on Sept 29, 2010 19:31:43 GMT
This thread clicked a memory, so I hunted down the Doctor Who book I received as a youngster. I was talking to Ralph about this some time ago; realising that I had absolutely no idea what the book was about, only a vague inkling of what the cover image was (Ralph quite rightly looked at me as if I was an idiot) I dropped it pretty quickly. Looks like it was Doctor Who and the Giant Robot, after all.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 29, 2010 19:33:29 GMT
Look out, Brigadier! It's growing!
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Sept 29, 2010 19:36:32 GMT
I was surprised how much I enjoyed actually watching Robot. I have fond memories of the Target book too.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 29, 2010 19:38:01 GMT
It has the best crap robot ever. And the brilliant Doctor V Robot cliffhanger 'fight'. And the mad scientist's mad hair! And THAT TANK!
I love it. Book is great too.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 29, 2010 19:40:19 GMT
Giant Robot was the first Doctor Who book I *ever* read.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 2, 2010 16:28:29 GMT
My mind boggled to see that the BBC 'Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2011' had a short story by Brian Aldiss in it! That plus it being half-RRP in Tesco meant an automatic pick-up. Very well designed book, a far better attempt at an annual for the kiddies than the lamentable Official Annuals. The features are not for the likes of, well, us*, but manage a far better attempt at a junior DWM than the excrement that is Doctor Who Adventures what with them being both well designed and having more than 10 words on a page.
Hurray.
-Ralph
*Adult fans will know all of this stuff from DWM
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Post by panderson on Oct 11, 2010 11:42:07 GMT
Been on and off here recently so may have missed it BUT for those interested, Timey or Timelord on the MB2 and Nerdsphere forums is selleing shed loads of the New Adventyures and Virgin books if anyone interested. From what he suggested I think he had close to a complete run
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Post by legios on Oct 13, 2010 12:05:23 GMT
An email from Amazon informs me that the Michael Moorcock Who book has been despatched through the Time Vortex in my general direction.
I must fire up the Time Vortex Magnatron to snare it to materialise in my living room.
Karl
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Post by blueshift on Oct 13, 2010 12:40:59 GMT
OOooh I didn't realise that was out!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 13, 2010 13:18:23 GMT
No such email for me yet!
Andy
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Post by legios on Oct 14, 2010 20:10:03 GMT
The Moorcock Who book has materialised from out of the time-stream and is in my hand.
Nice to have a hardcover Doctor Who book that is in the "proper" form-factor for hardcover, rather than the paperbacks-with-hard-shells of the rest of the range (I have a foible about books - hardcovers should be chunky-sized, and mass-market paperbacks pocket-sized, anything else feels somewhat wrong).
Haven't had a chance to start it yet, but I have read the indicia and I note that although the cover gives sole writing credit to Michael Moorcock the copyright notice and the assertion of authorial rights gives credit to both Michael and Linda Moorcock.
(And I have now delivered my quota of useless facts for the day).
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 14, 2010 22:17:50 GMT
I will get round to ordering that book in due course. My reading pile is a bit silly at the moment!
RE: The indicia. I'm sure Moorcock usually does that IIRC. Some authors do that. Pratchett does the same thing with crediting his wife in the copyright.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 26, 2010 14:00:32 GMT
Finished Halflife amd found it rather good.
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Post by legios on Oct 31, 2010 21:58:25 GMT
Finished the Michael Moorcock Doctor Who book this morning (I can no longer tolerate that much Coke it would appear - the caffine in it resulted in me being awake all night so I had time to do more than a bit of reading). It is distinctly different to the normal run of New Who books, with a very strong authorial voice and a metaphysics underpinning it that is very strongly influenced by Moorcock's own fiction. He does nail the characters of Amy and the Doctor as they were in the first half of the season very well, and it has a slightly absurdist sense of humour in places that I really did rather enjoy. It is definitely not a story that feels like it could be done as a television episode, but I think that works in its favour.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 7, 2010 14:17:18 GMT
Currently reading "The Tomorrow Windows". I loved Jonathan Morris previous work, Anacrophobia, which got the atmosphere dead right. Well Tomorrow Windows is great too, but very different and has had me laughin out loud a few times. About half way through so far.....
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 14, 2010 22:47:53 GMT
Tomorrow Windows worked for me, cod Adams humour, mock Brian Blessed et al.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 16, 2010 14:27:00 GMT
A friend believes he's got a copy of Lungbarrow sitting in a box at home that he found in a charity shop, that he doesn't need and will give me. RESULT!
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Post by blueshift on Nov 16, 2010 17:00:04 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 16, 2010 18:29:09 GMT
Good find!
Right. Grabbed the Moorcock book from Play. I have a big pile of entertainments so I wasn't planning to get it for a while but for £4 I could not resist!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 17, 2010 1:08:15 GMT
The Sleep of Reason was superb, very atmospheric and with a decent "base under siege" type story at it's heart.
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