More Douglas Adams?
Douglas Adams, genius writer, altered thinker, documentarian, humanist and collector of left-handed guitars left this world over a decade ago. But like Asimov and others (not so much Frank Herbert, curse you Kevin Anderson!) death has not proven a hindrance to publication.
Adams great unfinished work, at least twice over depending what you consider the mish-mash of mediums he procuded as appropriate, has now found its way to publication. Shada, as a novel, has been published written by regular Doctor Who writer for page and screen Gareth Roberts. Recent Doctor Who fans would have seen his byline as the writer of:
The Shakespeare Code
The Unicorn and the Wasp
Invasion of the Bane
Planet of the Dead
The Lodger
Closing Time
And its good. As much as Douglas Adams would have liked to have finish it himself, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency should be proof enough of that, I think he would have liked Roberts' efforts.
Shada, for those who don't know was Douglas Adams' third Doctor Who script after The Pirate Planet and the sublime The City of Death. Shada was the climactic final story of Season 17, a season for which Adams had already written The City of Death as well as script editing the season's other four stories, writing The Resteraunt at the End of the Universe as well as sheppharding Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy into a TV series. As Roberts' notes Adams presumably ran out of time to finish the script to Adams regret and its abandonment halfway through filming due to a strike left Adams relieved although everyone else saddened as even half-finished script it was still a fascinating story.
Roberts fell into his own development hell writing the novel whichhe though could be done very quickly being essentially a novelisation, but being an Adams fan Roberts worked himself into his own nightmare attempting to do justice to his literary hero.
I'm finding the story immensely enjoyable. It is still a Doctor Who story first rather than a Douglas Adams story first, his trademark humour is toned down, but far from absent. It is an enhancement to the stories first role as a Doctor Who story.
I'm really enjoying it. I'm finally understanding the plot of Shada which in its previous iterations I'd found inaccessable.
Adams great unfinished work, at least twice over depending what you consider the mish-mash of mediums he procuded as appropriate, has now found its way to publication. Shada, as a novel, has been published written by regular Doctor Who writer for page and screen Gareth Roberts. Recent Doctor Who fans would have seen his byline as the writer of:
The Shakespeare Code
The Unicorn and the Wasp
Invasion of the Bane
Planet of the Dead
The Lodger
Closing Time
And its good. As much as Douglas Adams would have liked to have finish it himself, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency should be proof enough of that, I think he would have liked Roberts' efforts.
Shada, for those who don't know was Douglas Adams' third Doctor Who script after The Pirate Planet and the sublime The City of Death. Shada was the climactic final story of Season 17, a season for which Adams had already written The City of Death as well as script editing the season's other four stories, writing The Resteraunt at the End of the Universe as well as sheppharding Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy into a TV series. As Roberts' notes Adams presumably ran out of time to finish the script to Adams regret and its abandonment halfway through filming due to a strike left Adams relieved although everyone else saddened as even half-finished script it was still a fascinating story.
Roberts fell into his own development hell writing the novel whichhe though could be done very quickly being essentially a novelisation, but being an Adams fan Roberts worked himself into his own nightmare attempting to do justice to his literary hero.
I'm finding the story immensely enjoyable. It is still a Doctor Who story first rather than a Douglas Adams story first, his trademark humour is toned down, but far from absent. It is an enhancement to the stories first role as a Doctor Who story.
I'm really enjoying it. I'm finally understanding the plot of Shada which in its previous iterations I'd found inaccessable.