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Post by The Doctor on Feb 15, 2021 19:01:28 GMT
Down that rabbit hole you go...
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 15, 2021 19:03:58 GMT
I mean we all know the Target range has multiple covers for each story, but it's when you start to think, do I have all the Chris Achilleos originals? that the trouble begins.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 15, 2021 20:00:15 GMT
All the ones with the Pertwee logo.....l
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 15, 2021 20:02:30 GMT
The hardcover cover that was never used in a paperback......,
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 15, 2021 20:49:23 GMT
If Pinwig hasn't got a spreadsheet up and running to track all of this I will be most disappointed.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 15, 2021 21:09:55 GMT
I've got a spreadsheet that tracks which print I've got of each book, but how many different covers there are I leave to excellent publications like 'Based on...'
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 15, 2021 21:38:07 GMT
Then your spreadsheet is not sufficiently comprehensive. You know what to do.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 15, 2021 22:30:33 GMT
You know what to do!
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 16, 2021 8:27:39 GMT
YOU know what to do!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 16, 2021 11:43:40 GMT
I've checked my shelves. It seems of the 12 original black logo/white background with art on Achilleos covers (ie the first 12 Target books printed) I have eight original editions with the right cover, two reprints that have the black logo replaced with the one taken from the diamond logo but the right art, and two reprints with the replacement art. Although having checked eBay, it seems these all go for peanuts in reasonable condition, so it wouldn't be too hard to get the right copies.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 16, 2021 12:20:43 GMT
You know what you must do.
Which ones do you not have the Pertwee logos for?
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 16, 2021 12:49:41 GMT
I've got the late seventies reprint covers for Sea Devils and Doomsday Weapon, then my copies of Day of the Daleks and The Daleks are the Achilleos art with the Fourth Doctor logo. Those two are probably among the first Target novels I ever had. I picked up the Armada imprint of 'In an Exciting Adventure with...' along the way too. I will sort those four, they're MUCH cheaper to get than the remaining books I actually have missing.
Hmm. Maybe I will spend a while this week updating my spreadsheet to reflect which version of the cover my copies have. 'Based On...' makes it really easy to do that.
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 25, 2021 19:17:05 GMT
I knew that article would be lethal, although in all honesty I decided at the start of this year that it would be one about finishing incomplete collections and the Target books are an achievable goal (unlike the FF books, the last few of which seem to genuinely sell for mental money now compared to just 'expensive' about five years ago).
So having been spurred on by DWM, I have this week added a first ed of The Rescue, which completes Hartnell for me, and the four Trial books, which completes Colin Baker (at a fraction of the price Who One was asking when I was in there two summers ago). So I now need the new ones out this month, four McCoys and the three expensive Troughtons (Power/Evil/Wheel) to finish all the TV stories. Then it's the missing eps and companion books to finish the complete run. TQITQ.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 25, 2021 19:19:35 GMT
EXCELLENT.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 25, 2021 19:31:08 GMT
The trial books are in good nick. Spines are a little faded but they all look unread. When we get through the current Season 18 & 8 anniversary runs I might well take a slow stroll through Trial and watch the blu-rays alongside reading the novels.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 25, 2021 19:38:35 GMT
I shall attempt to adimbrate the episcopal interface of the time/space continuum.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 15, 2021 23:06:44 GMT
Ewic Saward...cannot write prose.
*weeps*
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 16, 2021 18:06:47 GMT
No, no he cannot.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 16, 2021 18:08:19 GMT
I am staggered his prose was seen as fit for professional publication. It's that bad.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 21, 2021 22:22:28 GMT
I've been enjoying Revelation of the Daleks over the last few days. Saward's attempts to fit backstories to all the characters because he knows that's one of the hallmarks of the target books' popularity is quite endearing really. It's clunky in places and has a shocking amount of errors that should have been picked up in editing, but it doesn't change the fact it's a great story.
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 21, 2021 22:23:40 GMT
Are these Saward books the same text as the hardbacks? They don't say abridged.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 22, 2021 9:40:57 GMT
They are the same. Only Pirate Planet and City of Death are abridged/rewritten for Target.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 22, 2021 19:10:52 GMT
I'm intrigued by the rewritten part of those two. It's there any commentary anywhere that explains the differences?
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 22, 2021 19:44:25 GMT
Yes, check out publicity interviews with James Goss.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 22, 2021 19:45:22 GMT
I've been enjoying Revelation of the Daleks over the last few days.It's clunky in places and has a shocking amount of errors that should have been picked up in editing, but it doesn't change the fact it's a great story. Just you wait until you get to Resurrection, where Eric is often befuddled by such concepts as paragraphs and sentences. -Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 22, 2021 19:50:00 GMT
I was going to read that first, but then was suddenly taken with the idea of a trip to Necros. I wanted to see how he writes that 'levitating' bit at the end.
There is a surprising amount about nut roast in the first chapter.
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 22, 2021 19:52:19 GMT
Aside from the problems, I do like getting that childhood feeling again of reading 'extra bits that weren't on telly' that make Target novels so special. Not as in deleted scenes, but the extra narrative or alternate takes that fill out the story. Still gets me, that.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 22, 2021 19:55:00 GMT
I've been enjoying Revelation of the Daleks over the last few days.It's clunky in places and has a shocking amount of errors that should have been picked up in editing, but it doesn't change the fact it's a great story. Just you wait until you get to Resurrection, where Eric is often befuddled by such concepts as paragraphs and sentences. -Ralph And take a shot every time he mentions tinclavic or Terreleptil. -Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 22, 2021 20:01:33 GMT
Those appear a lot in Revelation. Confused me; what's Saward up to? world building? I know The Visitation is his story, but I don't recall Terileptils being in Resurrection or Revelation.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 23, 2021 22:03:11 GMT
It had been 25 years (!) since I first read The TV Movie novel and reading it again in the Target reprint it's ok for what it is. Started on 'Dalek'.
ALL Doctor Who telly stories must be Targetised. Even the rubbish ones. It is The Law. That's 7 of the 21st century ones done now.
-Ralph
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