Faction Paradox originally appeared in Alien Bodies, a Dr Who book released by the BBC in the lean years between the Paul McGann movie and Russell T. Davies' new series. They are a time-travelling voodoo cult set up in reaction to Time Lord culture. In recent years, with the increasing fragmentation of the Who spin-off market, the Faction has ( Read more... )

I'd almost forgotten I was working through Time and Relative Dissertations in Space a section at a time however I thought I ought to at least try to finish the reviews even though my recollections of the essays have become rather hazy.

( The Filipino army's advance on Reykjavik: world-building in Studio D and its legacy )

I bet you all thought I'd forgotten about Time and Relative Dissertations in Space, in fact, I've just been very busy and, mostly, away.

( The empire of the senses: narrative form and point-of-view in Doctor Who )

I've been scratching my head over how to cover Time and Relative Dissertations in Space in more detail, since I wanted to talk about several of the essays but didn't really want to make 18 more posts about it. I've opted for discussing each of its four parts in turn. These are not so much reviews as comments and thoughts I had while reading the ( Read more... )

The About Time series are reference works providing a story-by-story guide to Dr Who. Where these differ from the half dozen or so other story-by-story guides I have on my bookshelves, is that they seek explicitly to analyse the Dr Who stories in the wider context of the culture, specifically the media culture, of the time. They started out with ( Read more... )

bunn asked about the Faction Paradox novels in a reply to my last post and my comment in return was too long so I'm putting it here as a new post

( Notes on the Faction Paradox (and related) Novels )