Three spinoff books this evening, one featuring Erimem and two from the Lethbridge-Stewart sequence.

Second paragraph of third chapter of Prime Imperative, by Julianne Todd:‘Well?’ Alan demanded. ‘What did they say?’
I think I've reached the end of my patience with the books featuring Erimem, the Fifth Doctor's audio companion; they just aren't ( Read more... )

Second paragraph of third chapter:Petrol.
I confess that I am losing faith in the series of books about spinoff Doctor Who companion Erimem. Here she and her gang end up in a sealed crime-ridden near-future city which is the subject of a reality TV show. It's pretty obvious what's going to happen, and in due course it does. I'll give another couple ( Read more... )

Second paragraph of third chapter:A bomb had flattened a factory in the heart of the territory the Drofen had been spotted in most often. We made our way there just before the sun went down. Not that you could actually see the sun through the cloud. As we left, just outside her house, Isabella gave Erimem a huge hug. Not me or Tom, you understand, ( Read more... )

Second paragraph of third chapter:The dull stinging sensation of a numb arm woke Tom Niven. He glanced at his watch. It was still stupid o’clock. What the hell was going on? His head was still fuzzy from last night’s trip to the Students’ Union. Cheap booze, Ronnie’s jazz fags and Freshers… ah. That explained the dead arm. And the blonde head on ( Read more... )

Two spinoff series of books about Doctor Who companions have started this year - one is a secret history of the Brigadier between The Web of Fear and The Invasion, the other is a "What Happened Next" set of stories about audio companion Erimem, a young woman who was rescued from the fate of being a forgotten Egyptian pharaoh by the Fifth Doctor and ( Read more... )

This is an interesting literary project for the Whoniverse: a prequel to the career of one of the Doctor's companions. While I'm sure fanfic has produced speculation on Sarah Jane Smith's student days and early journalism career, and there is canonical evidence of the Doctor's encounter with Rose Tyler as a baby, this is the only example I can ( Read more... )

Abraham Lincoln's first appearance in Doctor Who is a brief extract from the Gettysburg Address in a First Doctor story, The Chase, in which the Doctor and friends are trying out the Space-Time Visualiser which they liberated from the Space Museum in the story of the same title. (They also use the machine to watch the Beatles performing live, and ( Read more... )