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Post by Pinwig on Mar 23, 2021 22:29:29 GMT
I'm very keen to see more new series novelisations.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 25, 2021 10:11:05 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 28, 2021 11:22:26 GMT
Awaiting the delivery of a couple of the new Target books today.
Dalek and the McGann movie.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 28, 2021 12:29:58 GMT
I read Shearman's Dalek book. Not a bad book but not to my taste. Much of it is taken up with very unpleasant back stories for incidental characters doing horrendous things or having them done to them. Doctor and Rose mostly ciphers in their own book. It's well written and by no means bad but too nasty for my tastes.
Started The Crimson Horror. Fun so far.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 28, 2021 12:44:03 GMT
I finished Revelation this morning. Rather lurches to a badly edited conclusion, but the 'extra bits not seen on TV' made it interesting from the point of view of seeing more into Saward's thinking, even if some of it was a bit weird.
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 6, 2021 12:19:12 GMT
Survival added.
Now down to 3x Troughton and 3x McCoy to complete all the classic series novelisations.
TQITQ
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 6, 2021 15:38:54 GMT
So close...
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 6, 2021 15:43:56 GMT
Sadly though Wheel and Evil go for over fifty quid a piece at the moment (I suspect there had been an increase due to the recent two DWMs bringing the books back to people's attention as they weren't going for that much in Jan) but I will pick off the McCoys as I see them.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 6, 2021 19:48:56 GMT
FIFTY POUNDS TO THE MAN WHO CAN OPEN THAT DOOR!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 8, 2021 18:27:21 GMT
Been reading the first issue of DWAS's revamped TARDIS zine this week, vol 17 number 1. First proper new issue since the 90s. It has a Season 14 theme, presumably to coincide with the BR release as this issue came out last year. Nice mixture of new content and vintage interviews/articles from the original mid-70s DWAS publications. Interesting how the initial reaction to The Deadly Assassin wasn't far off how we took the Timeless Child stuff ("Timelord names are supposed to be unpronounceable! This is awful!").
There's a second issue out now themed around Season 24.
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 30, 2021 22:07:27 GMT
Enjoyed the above so much I've added issue 2, the 64 page Season 24 special. Just need to find the time to read it.
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Post by Pinwig on May 3, 2021 17:47:14 GMT
I see from this month's DWM that the next 'years' bookazine is 1975.
And also that the McGann movie to now is just as long as it was between An Unearthly Child and Silver Nemesis.
(But that doesn't matter because years were longer in the 80s).
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Post by The Doctor on May 3, 2021 19:20:01 GMT
Lies.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on May 9, 2021 13:50:40 GMT
Dipped my toe in The Target Storybook but the first two stories haven't really impressed. Being an anthology there may be some gems in here but I'm not sure I want to wade through 400 pages to find them. I may just spin on to the Terrance Dicks story, which is obviously the reason for buying this anyway.
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Post by The Doctor on May 9, 2021 15:11:12 GMT
I have it in my 'to read' pile to get to at some point. I only got it for Uncle Tewwance's last story.
-Ralph
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Post by manmiles on May 10, 2021 3:40:00 GMT
I have it in my 'to read' pile to get to at some point. I only got it for Uncle Tewwance's last story. -Ralph Same. My latest book acquisition is the BBC novel ‘The Time Travellers’ by Simon Guerrier, loved that one when I read it.
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 18, 2021 22:21:27 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on May 20, 2021 9:57:31 GMT
I will be having that!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 21, 2021 12:20:13 GMT
Agreed. The first one is one of the best ones they've done for a long time (Dalek comics special aside, a very different beast)
And adding a preorder option is a result given recent difficulties obtaining them both in shops and online
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Post by The Doctor on May 21, 2021 12:22:24 GMT
Indeed. I have found their new web shop to be pretty good.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on May 21, 2021 18:11:34 GMT
Agreed. The first one is one of the best ones they've done for a long time (Dalek comics special aside, a very different beast) And adding a preorder option is a result given recent difficulties obtaining them both in shops and online The difficulty is only if you want them immediately. If you wait a month, Smiths is always overflowing with them. They just don't get the first run. Mine had armloads of Dalek Chronicles and still has loads of 1965 books.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 4, 2021 11:28:21 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 10, 2021 21:07:21 GMT
Power of the Daleks added.
2x Troughton & 3x McCoy to go...
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 10, 2021 21:22:55 GMT
The Quest is The Quest.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 15, 2021 15:56:36 GMT
The 1975 Bookazine is in the post!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 15, 2021 16:01:05 GMT
As is mine
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 26, 2021 11:33:38 GMT
1975 Bookazine procured from Smiths this morning.
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 15, 2021 20:15:22 GMT
Now we're getting serious... Wheel in Space added. New old stock, unread copy.
Evil, Time and the Rani, Dragonfire and Battlefield to go.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 15, 2021 21:03:24 GMT
Quite enjoying The Target Storybook. Especially nice to see a callback to the 8th Doctor BBC Books range.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 15, 2021 21:15:44 GMT
I haven't got back to that yet. The first two stories killed it for me.
I am SIX pages from the end of The Sensorites. Gripping political drama.
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