And in Dr Who books...

[Lonemagpie]

According to DWM, it seems Justin Richards is quoted saying that the (currently celebrity guest-written by Stephen Baxter, Alastair Reynolds, etc) Past Doctor books are intended to be ongoing... Doesn't say whether it's big-name guests only, but I'd assume so.

 

[23skidoo]

I figured this was the case too when they announced the Reynolds novel for 2013. It's not quite the same as having monthly Past Doctor Adventures like we used to have, but at least, after 6 years or so, BBC Books is once again remembering there were Doctors before Christopher Eccleston. I had a feeling this was coming when the BBC didn't renew Big Finish's licence to publish Doctor Who short stories in print a couple years ago.

Alex

 

[Captaindemotion]

I saw the Michael Moorcock novel in my library the other day; had a browse but wasn't dying on the writing style. Is it any good?

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I saw the Michael Moorcock novel in my library the other day; had a browse but wasn't dying on the writing style. Is it any good?

I enjoyed it.

The first hundred pages or so of Terraphiles are slow-going; it's an extended Wodehouse pastiche (with sporting Judoon) in which Amy and the Doctor are backgrounded. They're present, they just don't seem to be doing anything. But when you hit the first intermission, then the Doctor takes center stage, the story starts moving across the galaxy in a kind of madcap caper, and then the finale is pretty much pure Who.

 

[Captaindemotion]

^ Thanks. It was the first part of the book I skimmed and it did indeed seem to be light on the Doctor and Amy. Plus I'd already found 3 library books from some of my fave authors, so I had to be selective on my choices. Might give it a go the next time.

 

[23skidoo]

I saw the Michael Moorcock novel in my library the other day; had a browse but wasn't dying on the writing style. Is it any good?

I actually wasn't able to get into it myself (this ironic considering I'd been trumpeting the release for months beforehand). Then again I'm not a huge Moorcock fan anyway. I've heard that people who are in tune with his style really enjoyed it, and I'm certainly going to give it a second attempt one of these days, but I'm more likely to first read this year's "big name Who author" novel, Dan Abnett's The Silent Stars Go By, which comes out in a week or so.

Alex

 

[Captaindemotion]

^I'm odd anyway, in that while I love sci-fi tv and movies and while I'm a big reader, I don't read very much sci-fi, for some reason.

 

[Lonemagpie]

^I'm odd anyway, in that while I love sci-fi tv and movies and while I'm a big reader, I don't read very much sci-fi, for some reason.

I'm like that with Westerns - love movies, don't like the books, though I've always wanted to write one!

 

[Captaindemotion]

^ I suppose with both westerns and sci-fi, a lot of the pleasure comes from the visuals, which books don't always capture.