Two New "Adult" Doctor Who Novels On The Way!!

[StCoop]

First up Dan Abnett (who seems to write books as quickly as many people read them) is bringing back the Ice Warriors in September.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Doctor-Who-...r_1_24?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1310148443&sr=1-24

Then in 2012 we get the one I'm really excited about, as multi-award winner Stephen Baxter gets to write the first new novel to feature an Original Series Doctor since 2005!

http://www.stephen-baxter.com/news.html#who

And I know it's probably been mentioned before but 2012 will also see "Shada" finally novelised by Gareth Roberts. (And hopefully more Target reprints to go alongside the six that have come out this week.)

 

[Allyn Gibson]

BBC Books is billing Abnett's book as a "Christmas special," hence the title and the winter theme.

 

[ClayinCA]

I was really hoping this would be news that Neil Gaiman is going to novelise his script of The Doctor's Wife (as he's mentioned recently on his blog), but this news is also most welcome.

 

[StCoop]

I was really hoping this would be news that Neil Gaiman is going to novelise his script of The Doctor's Wife (as he's mentioned recently on his blog), but this news is also most welcome.

I think people have been taking his talking about a hypothetical novelisation a bit too seriously. The BBC couldn't afford to pay him the kind of money he gets for writing a book.

 

[Starkers]

Dear lord, when does Abnett sleep?

 

[Stevil2001]

Don't let me down Stephen Baxter! I'm still sad we got 100 instead of Earthstorm.

 

[StCoop]

Don't let me down Stephen Baxter! I'm still sad we got 100 instead of Earthstorm.

We should have had both! "100" has the hilarious 'My Own Private Wolfgang' and the incredibly dark 'Bedtime Story' on it.

The most exciting piece of the news for me is that they've opened the door on doing Original Series novels again.

 

[The Wormhole]

Wasn't Stephen Baxter's novel announced a while back? I seem to remember hearing something about a new Second Doctor novel being discussed.

I'm really pumped for Dan Abnett's Ice Warriors novel.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Wasn't Stephen Baxter's novel announced a while back? I seem to remember hearing something about a new Second Doctor novel being discussed.

I'm really pumped for Dan Abnett's Ice Warriors novel.

Baxter's wasn't officially announced though he'd said he was doing one.

"Wheel Of Ice" sounds like it'll also be an Ice Warriors thing, maybe

 

[Stevil2001]

Don't let me down Stephen Baxter! I'm still sad we got 100 instead of Earthstorm.

We should have had both! "100" has the hilarious 'My Own Private Wolfgang' and the incredibly dark 'Bedtime Story' on it.

The most exciting piece of the news for me is that they've opened the door on doing Original Series novels again.

Yeah, I liked 100. I'm just grumbling.

 

[Skellington]

A Stephen Baxter Who novel will have been a long time in coming by the time it gets released. Wasn't The Time Ships originally going to be one?

It's welcome news, though. Troughton is Baxter's favourite Doctor, if I recall, and it'll be interesting to see what he can do with the characters and the premise in terms of narrative and scientific verisimilitude.

 

[Newspaper Taxi]

I'd really like to see the Ice warriors return to the screen. So while this book is cool in that at least they're returning it probably also portends that the Ice Warriors are going to stay in the toy box for the time being.

 

[23skidoo]

I was really hoping this would be news that Neil Gaiman is going to novelise his script of The Doctor's Wife (as he's mentioned recently on his blog), but this news is also most welcome.

I think people have been taking his talking about a hypothetical novelisation a bit too seriously. The BBC couldn't afford to pay him the kind of money he gets for writing a book.

It's been reported that Gaiman is in talks with BBC Books, so I would say it's gone beyond hypothetical. Whether it happens has yet to be seen, however Gaiman was hired by BBC Books to write a foreword to one of the Target Books reprints that was published a couple days ago, so the connection has been made.

Excellent news about Stephen Baxter - I'm surprised this hasn't been reported on the news sites yet.

Alex

 

[VDCNI]

Baxter's also written the introduction for Doctor Who And The Abominable Snowmen, one of the recently re-released Target books.

 

[timothy]

well since this a novel disscussion. does anyone know if or when they will be in e form? and I do mean all dr.who novels.

 

[diankra]

A Stephen Baxter Who novel will have been a long time in coming by the time it gets released. Wasn't The Time Ships originally going to be one?

Yes and no. Steve wanted to use an existing time machine rather than having spend half the book establishing a new one, so he automatically thought of Who before the possibility of making it a Wells follow-on took over. I did an interview with him about it where he ran through how the Who version would have worked (a lot more dareing-do with Guy Gibson's time squadron back in prehistory, ISTR), but would have to check how much was in the interview and how much in bar chats at other times!

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

"Wheel Of Ice" sounds like it'll also be an Ice Warriors thing, maybe

Sounds like a Robert Jordan thing.

 

[Sci]

I was really hoping this would be news that Neil Gaiman is going to novelise his script of The Doctor's Wife (as he's mentioned recently on his blog), but this news is also most welcome.

I think people have been taking his talking about a hypothetical novelisation a bit too seriously. The BBC couldn't afford to pay him the kind of money he gets for writing a book.

I completely understand if you decide to take this with a grain of salt -- goodness knows I take everything I hear from someone on the Internet about something they say they saw in person with a grain of salt. But. Neil Gaiman had an appearance at the National Press Club here in D.C. that I attended last month, and while there, he announced that he is planning on writing a novelization of "The Doctor's Wife."

 

[Allyn Gibson]

BBC Books is making an announcement of something at Noon today.

ETA: And, that wasn't the news I was expecting. Alistair Reynolds is writing a third Doctor and Jo novel, due to be published in 2013. Title, The Harvest of Time.

What was I expecting? News about the next Brilliant Book...

 

[23skidoo]

And so we have another major SF writer doing DW - excellent. And it pretty much confirms that BBC Books is getting back into the past Doctors game again. Methinks this is only the first of a number of such 2013 releases.

Alex