Next in the sequence of Black Archive monographs about individual Doctor Who stories, this time it's the 2003 webcast which briefly promised to be a new start for the show, and was then blown out of the water by BBC Wales. I rewatched the actual story again, having been underwhelmed on first watching in 2012 when I wrote:Scream of the Shalka is the ( Read more... )

Second paragraph of third story (“The Terror Of The Umpty Ums", by Steven Moffat):“Did you hear me?” emitted the Human from its flapped aperture. “Did you understand? Do you understand what I’m saying?” The encoded sound stream was accompanied by a fresh flow of smells also emanating from the aperture. Karpagnon’s sensory filter began processing ( Read more... )

Two new-ish Who comics that I picked up on one of my London trips last year - I have now read almost every Doctor Who novel (there are a couple of recent releases I haven't caught up with yet) but I am much further behind in the world of Who comics, especially Titan who keep pumping them out.

Heralds of Destruction, by Paul Cornell and Christopher ( Read more... )

Ood

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Second paragraph of third chapter: It was a decision that meant that he no longer had to bear the burden of hope.
So, we come to the latest novelisation of the latest Doctor Who episode. (For the record, the shortest ever interval between the broadcast of a new episode and the novelisation being published was The Five Doctors, where Terrance Dicks ( Read more... )

Second page of Part 3:

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(From the 2002 anthology A Life of Surprises, ed. Paul Cornell ( Read more... )

Second paragraph of third story ("The Light that Never Dies" by Eddie Robson):Unfortunately, a couple of days later, he died again. And again. And again. Eventually, he lost count of how many times it had happened. The period of consciousness that he was afforded each time - perhaps only a minute, perhaps only thirty seconds - didn't allow for a ( Read more... )

The deadline is coming up, and I still haven't finished Glorious Angels (which maybe says something in itself), but I have re-read all the short fiction on the BSFA list, and will vote as below. I'm expanding my second-paragraph-of-third-chapter-or-section approach to include the short stories not separately published, with a little difficulty in a ( Read more... )

This is one of this year's Hugo nominees - the first I have read in the Best Graphic Story category - and it is utterly lovely. The Eleventh Doctor slips through a gap between universes and finds himself in a world where "Doctor Who" is a TV show and he himself is portrayed by a bloke called Matt Smith. Among other things, he discovers fan-fiction ( Read more... )