Doctor Who books (fiction, nonfiction, nonfact)

[Steve Roby]

The page linked to says this is "Victor Pemberton's much-expanded novelisation of his own original script," so people who like audiobooks will get more story from this than they got from the original audio. This is the company that found they could make money by selling audio books of Target novelizations of TV episodes. People will buy this version of The Pescatons.

 

[JD]

Is this the most redundant piece of DW merchandise ever?

An audio book of a novelisation of an audio drama...

Doctor Who: The Pescatons: 4th Doctor Novelisation: Amazon.co.uk: Pemberton, Victor, Culshaw, Jon: 9781529975024: Books

Buy Doctor Who: The Pescatons: 4th Doctor Novelisation by Pemberton, Victor, Culshaw, Jon from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction.

www.amazon.co.uk

That's almost as confusing as the Ratchet & Clank game based on the movie, which was based on the first game in the series.

 

[Christopher]

That's almost as confusing as the Ratchet & Clank game based on the movie, which was based on the first game in the series.

There have been novelizations of movies that were adapted from novels, or at least from shorter fiction as in the case of Enemy Mine.

 

[JD]

I'm not surprised. But it just sounds funny when you describe them that way.
I remember when John Carter came out they released a book that had both the novelization of the movie and the original Princess of Mars.
Here's the Kindle version on Amazon, the paperback appears to be out of print.
https://www.amazon.com/John-Carter-Movie-Novelization-Mars-ebook

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I'm not surprised. But it just sounds funny when you describe them that way.
I remember when John Carter came out they released a book that had both the novelization of the movie and the original Princess of Mars.

I have that. Disney/Hyperion also reprinted all 11 Barsoom novels in three omnibus trades to tie in with the film.

I outlined a Doctor Who/John Carter comic miniseries around that time, though it was based on the books and not the movie. Ice Warriors and Tharks galore!

 

[JD]

My aunt sent me a Amazon gift card for Christmas, and I've been in the mood for a New Series book, so I picked up the e-book of The Pirate Loop, which is one that has sounded intriguing to me for a while. I've been wanting some more stuff with Martha since we only got the one season with her in the show and I saw it had good review on both Amazon and Goodreads. Anyone else here had read it?

 

[bdub76]

There have been novelizations of movies that were adapted from novels, or at least from shorter fiction as in the case of Enemy Mine.

Trying to find this one now. I can't find it for sale on eBook at either Amazon or KOBO. I can find used versions of the novelization, but not the original novella. I did find the novelization on Internet Archive. What I really want to track down is Enemy Papers. It looks like it was once an eBook at Amazon, but it's not anymore.

It looks like the author did write some stories for Alien Nation, which I binged this year, so it's still pretty fresh in my head. This is going to be an interesting hunt.

 

[Steve Roby]

The original novella of Enemy Mine was first published in an issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, which is where I read it. Wiki says September 1979. Back issues of magazines may be tricky to find, but it's an option.

 

[Christopher]

It looks like the author did write some stories for Alien Nation, which I binged this year, so it's still pretty fresh in my head. This is going to be an interesting hunt.

Yes, Longyear wrote the Alien Nation novels The Change (very loosely based on an unfilmed script) and Slag Like Me. I reviewed them on my Patreon a while back. They're very strange, since they take considerable liberties with the continuity of the series, and are kind of an alternative interpretation, a lot darker and more adult than the show.

The original novella of Enemy Mine was first published in an issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, which is where I read it. Wiki says September 1979. Back issues of magazines may be tricky to find, but it's an option.

It's been collected and reprinted many times: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?41444

Here's an item about the expanded version in the collection Manifest Destiny, and another novel in the same universe: https://www.blackgate.com/2021/11/20/vintage-treasures-emmanifest-destinyem-by-barry-b-longyear/

 

[JD]

I forgot in my other post that I also got The Legends of River Song.