Which novels should become Big Finish audio dramas?

[Marc]

Speaking of, the Nazi Germany time travel antics of "Timewrym: Exodus" would make for an interesting audio story. You might need to excise the Timewyrm from the story but that wouldn't be too hard.

Spoiler: Timewyrm: Exodus

And the War Chief would need to be recast but that's not a problem since it's supposed to be a new regeneration anyway, albeit a botched one.

Boy the books have the 7th doctor busy in that particular period - Illegal Alien, Timewyrm: Exodus and Just War (which was turned in a Bernice Summerfield audio).

 

[Nightowl1701]

The lost 2nd heart's not a big deal. If I remember right (it was in a Missing Adventure somewhere), the Doctor didn't get a 2nd heart until he regenerated for the first time (from Hartnell to Troughton). So when he regenerated from McGann to Hurt, the 2nd heart would've simply grown back anyway. Fitting since he was rededicating himself to the Time Lords/Gallifrey. But I reckon Repercussions renders that moot.

Beyond "Lungbarrow," are there any other New Adventures that are explicitly contradicted by the new series? I'm not aware of any, although I admittedly have only read a handful.

Human Nature, for obvious reasons. (If what I've heard about the original version was true, Bernice better pray she never runs into River Song...)

 

[VDCNI]

As good as the episodes were the book Human Nature is much better so I always think of that as the true story.

I can't remember Benny doing anything in the book that would upset River Song though?

 

[ClayinCA]

I can't remember Benny doing anything that River might find objectionable in Human Nature either--but The Dying Days is quite another matter!

 

[Stevil2001]

The 8th Doctor BBC novels are definitely not canon! In those novels Gallifrey gets destroyed in a completely different way and the Doctor ends up losing his 2nd heart. Those are some major plot points that are frequently referenced throughout the BBC novels.

Yeah, but he grows a new second heart seven books later. And the stage is set for Gallifrey's restoration in the last book of the series. Neither of those events contradicts anything in the new series.

 

[ClayinCA]

I think it's Lance Parkin, in AHistory, who even postulates a way that the EDAs' destruction of Gallifrey could be the same one as referenced in the New Series. I think that theory was contradicted by "The Day of the Doctor," though.

 

[diankra]

That's slightly separate (I'm guessing this is in the latest edition of AHistory, I'm an edition or two back); but in the last mainline 8th Doctor book, Lance's The Gallifrey Chronicles, he sets up the clues as to how the Doctor can bring Gallifrey back just in time for it to be destroyed by whatever leads up to Russell T's new series (basically, the Time Lords' minds were stored in the Matrix which was stored in the Doctor's head; recreating the planet and their bodies is just a minor matter of molecular reconstruction, the sort of thing they got on top of when the universe was less than half its present size).
So no contradiction there.
Lots of contradictions elsewhere by now, but not there!

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

^Like what?

The 8th Doctor BBC novels are definitely not canon! In those novels Gallifrey gets destroyed in a completely different way and the Doctor ends up losing his 2nd heart. Those are some major plot points that are frequently referenced throughout the BBC novels.

Yeah, but he grows a new second heart seven books later. And the stage is set for Gallifrey's restoration in the last book of the series. Neither of those events contradicts anything in the new series.

Oh. OK. I've been reading those books sporadically and way out of order. And I kinda quit the 8th Doctor for a while after the long, confusing slog that was "The Adventuress of Henrietta Street." (My biggest beef with it: Although the entire thing is written as if it's a history book, there's no explanation as to who wrote it or what their perspective or agenda is.)

BTW, I still haven't gotten an answer to my question: What are "Gary Russell-isms"?

 

[Stevil2001]

I'm not Emperor-Tiberius, but I find that Gary Russell has a tendency to drown his stories in continuity references, so perhaps that was what he meant.