Two New "Adult" Doctor Who Novels On The Way!!
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Third Doctor, Jo, the Master and (if I'm reading between the lines correctly) UNIT? I already think this book is awesome.
Ho. Lee. Crap.
So, Alastair Reynolds is writing a 3rd Doctor/Delgado Master book for 2013, eh? Definitely cool, but I do think it's a bit... dismaying, say, that the return of previous Doctors is being hived off to special guest star writers from the world of big-name SF (i.e. Reynolds and Stephen Baxter). The book line has a pool of talent to draw from, so why can't, say, Una McCormack or Jim Swallow get a go with a Doctor other than the current one...?
That said, there is an adult (in the pornographic sense) Doctor Who novel, The Stranger by Portia da Costa. It fits into the "Earth Arc" of the EDAs, shortly before Father Time.
Still, after Torchwood, you can forgive us for being unsure what the word means.
I would be a happy person if Gary Russell never wrote Doctor Who fiction ever again. Instruments of Darkness was a masterclass in writing a book I would hate.
Perfect! One of my favorite modern authors and the best Doctor.
OMG. There's at least *two* Gary Russell Sixth Doctor novels? Hadn't heard of these! I must look for them!
And I loved "The Glamour Chase" and all the Big Finish audioplays Gary's worked on, so I'm game for anything by him.
There are several Russell sixth Doctor stories: Business Unusual, Instruments of Darkness, and Spiral Scratch. I haven't read any of his NSAs, though I wasn't very taken by the audiobook of Beautiful Chaos.
As a whole, I love the Big Finish audios Russell produced, but the ones he co-wrote (Minuet in Hell, Zagreus, and The Next Life) are all varying degrees of meh.
As a whole, I love the Big Finish audios Russell produced, but the ones he co-wrote (Minuet in Hell, Zagreus, and The Next Life) are all varying degrees of meh.
I'm glad to see the return of PDAs even if it is taking too long.
This is the sort of comment I don't understand. Why would you want Russell to never write a Doctor Who novel again, when (a) you wouldn't be required to buy it if he did, and (b) there are lots of fans out there (me included) who really like his Doctor Who prose and would welcome the chance to buy more of it? I've never understood the "I-don't-like-it-so-no-one-who-does-like-it-gets-a-vote" attitude.
I can't speak for Steve, but my two word answer would be Divided Loyalties. Isn't that enough?
I'm not saying you don't get a vote. I'm saying I'd be happier if fewer bad stories existed in the world. Which I would be.
Yes, and you seem to have just voted it perfectly fine.
I don't get why you're taking this personally. It's a mildly hyperbolic way of saying, "I don't like Gary Russell's writing at all." No one's taking anyone's vote, because no one has any actual vote here.
I don't get why you're taking this personally. It's a mildly hyperbolic way of saying, "I don't like Gary Russell's writing at all." No one's taking anyone's vote, because no one has any actual vote here.
