New Dr Who books
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Going by the spine numbering, it's Ghosts of India, The Doctor Trap, Shining Darkness. Shining Darkness refers back to The Doctor Trap, but other than that, there are no real points of continuity between them.
Well, there's always the Darksmith Legacy books coming in a few months, though they look like they're aimed at younger readers.
You have numbers on the spine? Do you mean those TARDIS-ish graphics above the title? I notice those seem to be different on every novel, but I have no idea what they mean!
I recently finished the the last trio of Martha books and am about to finish the Target novelization of "The Power of Kroll", which came with the last issue of DW Magazine. I don't recall ever seeing the actual episode before (actually I don't recall seeing many Romana I eps), but now I'd really like to!
quite by chance I was reading another thread today, this seems to explain it
apart from the "The Story of Martha" book
http://www.doctorwhoforum.com/showthread.php?t=161406
the link explains more.
yes I belived the person who created the picture added them, it wouldn't be difficult if it was written in English as wellI couldn't access the thread (page came up asking for registration & password, etc). Anyway, in Canada we don't actually have the number printed over the graphic like that -- unless those were added by whoever created that graphic. Cool though!
You can work out the order - at least, you could for the first Eccleston books and I imagine they're still doing it - from the Gallifreyan swirly pattern 'numeral' on the spine. There's probably a site you can check online somewhere, but comparing them to the patterns on the chapter start pages also shows what number each pattern represents.
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There are a lot of symbols in the picture up-thread, but really there are only 7 symbols you need to know.
It's a base 7 numbering system. Compare the symbols with the big diagram above, and you can see that book number 7 is represented as 000010 (which is 7 in base 10), book 14 is shown as 000020, and so on. It's quite easy to work out you know how it works.
It's a base 7 numbering system. Compare the symbols with the big diagram above, and you can see that book number 7 is represented as 000010 (which is 7 in base 10), book 14 is shown as 000020, and so on. It's quite easy to work out you know how it works.
That's a really complicated way of numbering books but I like the madness of the idea. Thanks for the clarifying picture. I can't even get my head around binary so I'm helpless with a base 7 numbering system.I've only read "Peacemaker" and listened to "The Stone Rose" and "The Resurrection Casket" so far, so I'm always interested in recommendations.
Basically, it gives the fanboys numbers while not confusing the majority of those buying the books, or turning them off because they think they have to read the first 29.
Basically, it gives the fanboys numbers while not confusing the majority of those buying the books, or turning them off because they think they have to read the first 29.
And instead confusing them with enigmatic symbols both on the cover and in the book since they're used for the chapters, too. I wondered what that was about.
Confusing them? Maybe a select few. I'd expect most to simply shrug and move on, possibly noting "hey, that looks like the pretty stuff on the TARDIS console".
I had figured it was a TARDIS symbol, but I didnt really think it was numbers.
this reminds me I got to go & reorder my books, now I know this
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