A bit of a surprise announcement from Audio GO (aka BBC Audiobooks). For the last few years they've been releasing unabridged readings of the Target Books novelizations. In a one-off experiment, their May release, Doctor Who and the Stones of Blood, won't be a reading of Terrance Dicks' novelization from the late 70s, but instead will be a brand-new novelization written by the story's original writer, David Fisher.
http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2011/01/dwn200111111508-audio-go-target-update.html
It'll be interesting to see how this turns out. Although there have been a handful of Sarah Jane novelizations, one based on Scream of the Shalka, one on the 1996 TV movie, and a couple of odds and ends like radio plays, I worked out that this will be the first new novelization of a regular Doctor Who TV story since John Peel covered The Evil of the Daleks back around 1993. So that will make this the first "modern-style" novelization.
As the link says, this is intended as a one-off, so I don't expect we'll be seeing Dicks' original books replaced en masse. But I do wonder if the potential is here for Audio Go to maybe commission the never-published novelizations for Eric Saward's two Dalek stories, or the three Douglas Adams-written stories (well, maybe not Shada as Big Finish already covered that one). As we've seen, there is a difference between publishing books and doing audio dramas. They could finally fill in these gaps.
Alex
http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2011/01/dwn200111111508-audio-go-target-update.html
It'll be interesting to see how this turns out. Although there have been a handful of Sarah Jane novelizations, one based on Scream of the Shalka, one on the 1996 TV movie, and a couple of odds and ends like radio plays, I worked out that this will be the first new novelization of a regular Doctor Who TV story since John Peel covered The Evil of the Daleks back around 1993. So that will make this the first "modern-style" novelization.
As the link says, this is intended as a one-off, so I don't expect we'll be seeing Dicks' original books replaced en masse. But I do wonder if the potential is here for Audio Go to maybe commission the never-published novelizations for Eric Saward's two Dalek stories, or the three Douglas Adams-written stories (well, maybe not Shada as Big Finish already covered that one). As we've seen, there is a difference between publishing books and doing audio dramas. They could finally fill in these gaps.
Alex
