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Interview with Sophie Aldred about her novel, At Childhood's End. Apparently, she will be doing her best to reconcile all the various fates that Ace has been given over the years by various writers.
Titan Comics' Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor Season Two #2 came out yesterday, continuing the story set during the events of "Blink."
The first issue was a lot of set-up, and the second issue (of a four-part story) is even more set-up, as it's setting up how the two Doctors and the four companions are going to mix-and-match for the throwdown with the Weeping Angels and the Autons. There are some nice character moments, like between Martha and the thirteenth Doctor (though some directions it could have gone it didn't), and Yaz gets a take-charge moment with the tenth Doctor, which is nice as the Fam sometimes seems superfluous in Titan's comics.
The story's a bit languid, still not a lot of momentum, and I think I have an idea of how it's all going to play out over the next forty pages (and 1 cliffhanger).
Interview with Sophie Aldred about her novel, At Childhood's End. Apparently, she will be doing her best to reconcile all the various fates that Ace has been given over the years by various writers.
Nope, she didn’t. I’d be raging at her pretty much blowing up all the post-Survival era Seven/Ace stories, if it didn’t fit so neatly into this season’s ‘everything you think you know is a lie’ theme.
I just started reading Titan Comics Eighth Doctor series, I've been wanting to check out some DW comics and I've been curious to see more of the Eighth Doctor, so this seemed like a good way to do both at once.
I finished up the Eighth Doctor comic last night and I really enjoyed it. The stories all did a great job of capturing the feel of the show, and I thought the twist at the end and how it all tied together was really good. The cameo with the two surprise characters at the end was pretty fun.
I finished up the Eighth Doctor comic last night and I really enjoyed it. The stories all did a great job of capturing the feel of the show, and I thought the twist at the end and how it all tied together was really good. The cameo with the two surprise characters at the end was pretty fun.
I liked it, too. And yes, I agree about the little twist at the end.
The series was a bit controversial when it came out as Emma Vicelli's artwork came in for a lot of criticism as being "not Doctor Who." Personally, I thought using a shoujo manga style for the eighth Doctor was a stroke of genius -- Eight is the romantic, Byronic Doctor, so a more romantic art style was entirely appropriate.
This seems to be the Who books thread, so I'll ask here... I've been looking for DW books on the OverDrive online library (to go along with the Big Finish audios I'm listening to from another online library service, Hoopla), but I tend to be more interested in books about the classic Doctors, and OverDrive mainly offers modern-Doctor novels (and a variety of comics). So I was wondering what some of the best modern novels are considered to be. I tried one, Prisoner of the Daleks, and didn't like it that much. So I was hoping there were some better options. (Oh, and I've also read the War Doctor novel, Engines of War.)
The only new series novels I’ve read are The Eyeless,The Story of Martha, and Beautiful Chaos. The first two I generally liked, the second I don’t remember much about so it was probably mediocre. The Eyeless seemed to be seen as a highlight back when it first came out, though that was probably in part because it was the first New Series book by a very popular contributor to the NAs/EDAs.
I also liked The Eyeless. My read is it's a story of the tenth Doctor dealing with Faction Paradox detritus.
It's often cited as one of the best, but I didn't like it -- Jonathan Morris' Touched by an Angel. A woman dies in a car accident, and her grieving husband gets a chance to redo things and save her life when a Weeping Angel zaps him back a dozen or so years.
My problem with the book is that it's "Doctor Who does One Day," the David Nicholls novel (which I loved) or the film adaptation with Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess (which I liked very, very much), only it's not anywhere near as deep, the characters aren't as well drawn, and it never feels like its own thing. You'll notice I didn't say anything about the Doctor or Amy or Rory, because there's nothing to say about them. They're kinda guest stars in their own book.
Still, it's interesting to see the Angels rendered in prose and, like I said, the book is widely cited as one of the best.
Another I liked was Una McCormack's The King's Dragon, which melds Doctor Who and Tolkien-esque high fantasy fairly well.
I loved Jenny Colgan's Dark Horizons. The eleventh Doctor gets involved with Scots and Vikings in the Hebrides in the eleventh century while an alien invasion is going down. I'd call it a "medieval base under siege story," but that undersells this book. I'm thinking about the book's emotional climax and I'm about to cry.
I received Adventures in Lockdown, a collection of the short fiction and some new pieces (fiction and artwork), from the first "Lockdown" in the spring, yesterday. The thing that it's missing that I wish were collected is the text of Russell T. Davies' "Farewell, Sarah Jane."
For people who care about such things, Adventures in Lockdown smells amazing. The paper and ink smell bring back good memories, memories of childhood and the Scholastic Book Fair. If you don't have that memory of being eight, and having a ten dollar bill your dad gave you in the morning, and seeing all the tables in the school gym, and buying a Little House book, and knowing how it feels and how it looks and how excited you are, then the comparison may not make much sense. But it does for me. That's how this book makes me feel. Just holding it, I feel happy.
As for the contents, if you followed the Lockdown material online, you're going to be familiar with about ninety percent of this. While some of the text stories I built into an ebook for myself, some of the other stuff, like the videos, I couldn't do that with, so it's nice to have them all (minus, of course, "Farewell, Sarah Jane") in one package. Steven Moffat's "The Terror of the Umpty Ums" is wonderful and different -- think Gaiman's "One Life, Furnished with Early Moorcock" or my own "Make-Believe" -- and he writes the thirteenth Doctor very well.
There are three original stories, one from Neil Gaiman, one from Vinay Patel, and one from Mark Gatiss.
Gaiman's story, "One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes," which he talked a little bit about in his podcast with David Tennant a few weeks ago, centers on the Corsair. I'm not sure which Corsair this is meant to be -- I think it's a new incarnation we've not seen or knew of before -- and Gaiman seems to suggest that whatever happened before "The Doctor's Wife" was not the death of the Corsair. The story is surprisingly fanwanky -- it's a prequel to a seventh Doctor story, and there's a Cartmel Masterplan reference. Gaiman has some lovely turns of phrase -- like when the Corsair's TARDIS enters the Vortex. It's little slight, but it's nice and feels Gaiman-y. I'd kinda like a story with Iris Wildthyme and Panda teaming up with the Corsair and Parrot now.
Gatiss' original story, "Fellow Traveller," is about an old woman encountering the thirteenth Doctor on a rainy and cold night, and they take shelter together in an old, abandoned farmhouse.
Gatiss never names the old woman, nor the Doctor for that matter, but midway through it becomes obvious who the old woman is and what this is a sequel to.
Patel's story, "The Tourist," is about an older man, just moved to the city, having not lived a life of his own for various reasons, who the thirteen Doctor helps in various ways by providing a nudge here and there.
It's a nice little book. It's not essential, if I didn't have it I wouldn't feel I missed it, but I'm glad to have it.
There is a books thread!
I've been reading the EDA The Burning for a while now and it's good but I'm having a hard time focusing on it. I guess mostly because of the amnesia thing again? But also because Fitz left for now. I know The Ancestor Cell is controversial but I can't really hate it because I loved the Father Kreiner + Fitz plotline. Unfortunate FP ending but apart from that the book is so good.
This seems to be the Who books thread, so I'll ask here... I've been looking for DW books on the OverDrive online library (to go along with the Big Finish audios I'm listening to from another online library service, Hoopla), but I tend to be more interested in books about the classic Doctors, and OverDrive mainly offers modern-Doctor novels (and a variety of comics). So I was wondering what some of the best modern novels are considered to be. I tried one, Prisoner of the Daleks, and didn't like it that much. So I was hoping there were some better options. (Oh, and I've also read the War Doctor novel, Engines of War.)
The older stuff isn’t fully available as ebooks (officially…) a lot of it reverted to the ownership of the original authors, who do seem to have made some available, but prices vary wildly even as sold through the kindle store — I don’t know if them making their work available to libraries was even an option.
I remember liking The Burning and the next few books, but I found the whole amnesia arc went on for too long. At least Faction Paradox got its own line of books eventually, without the Doctor.
After I finished The Ancestor Cell I started the FP audios, they are so good! Very unfortunate change of actresses from S1 to S2, but they are pretty good audios. Also they contained the character from Dead Romance, my favourite not-exactly-doctor-who book! I love Dead Romance
After I finished The Ancestor Cell I started the FP audios, they are so good! Very unfortunate change of actresses from S1 to S2, but they are pretty good audios. Also they contained the character from Dead Romance, my favourite not-exactly-doctor-who book! I love Dead Romance
14 year old me still can't get over Mel becoming one of the most important DW characters ever but anyway, Bonnie has written* a Doctor-less Mel and Sabalom Glitz novel to be published in August.
