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Jan 04, 2007 13:41

To help with my Big Finish Benny novella, All Mimsy Were the Borogoves, I'm re-reading my 1996 Doctor Who novel Return of the Living Dad. There's too much repetition, too many in-jokes, too many characters, and far too many POV shifts, but the prose is generally holding up all right. There are certain similarities with the new show: the emphasis on ( Read more... )

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zeusgirl January 4 2007, 03:02:17 UTC

I always loved Return of the Living Dad. Of your books, it's one of my favourites.

As I recall, that's the one where the soldier called Tiller puts Chris Cwej in a headlock. :-). You really made this fangrrl's day with that one.

(Has it really been 10 years since it was published? Wow. It doesn't seem that long, and yet when I think about it, so much has happened since then...).

barrington January 4 2007, 04:08:32 UTC

Wait wait wait. You're writing something new that I might be able to get my hands on and read? Why wasn't I informed?

I enjoyed RotLD (looks like someone made a typo for Lord of the Rings, doesn't it?), but it's not my favourite of your books. Like most artists whose work I enjoy, you've only become better over time. Man, now I realise I still haven't read two of your books... I'd better get on to that as soon as I finish The Loved One. One of the locla libraries'll have 'em, no doubt.

kateorman January 4 2007, 05:45:47 UTC

Arak: " Pay attention." ;-)

cassiphone January 4 2007, 07:42:33 UTC

I have to say, I always liked your NA books best because of the way you handled relationships - as in, actually made the characters feel like real people? I kind of loved that.

kateorman January 7 2007, 09:28:31 UTC

*grin* The Roz/Chris stuff in Return is very cute (especially Chris's boxer shorts. :-)

alawston January 4 2007, 08:00:04 UTC

In-jokes in an NA? Perish the thought!

Are you doing anything for Craig Hinton's anthology?

kateorman January 4 2007, 08:02:12 UTC

The in-jokes get really intrusive in places, especially all the namechecks!

Tell me more about this antho.

alawston January 4 2007, 09:03:24 UTC

It's being set up by Adrian Middleton and it's a charity anthology called Shelf Life. Adrian's trailed it in a few of the Doctor Who communities, but I must admit I got the nod through mutual friends. The deadline to get a proposal in is tomorrow, I've just got into work but I shall post with more details later.

adrian_middle January 5 2007, 02:41:38 UTC

My bad.

Details are in my own LJ, and I cross-postd to a few of the LJ groups, but I stopped short of mentioning it to every Who writer I had a link to.

Its at http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_fanthology/ and the deadline is just for title, indicative word-count, one-paragraph pitch and some context about the story or the author link to Craig/his writing.

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dinosaurcostume January 4 2007, 12:36:45 UTC

I read Dad ages ago, but I remember it as an intensely pleasurable read - a sort of "Why can't they all be like this?" thing. (Argh, I mean the NA's, not the Orman-oeuvre). Two things stick in the memory - Nestene spatula, and an incredibly moving Benny-Doctor scene toward the end of the book ( ... )

kateorman January 7 2007, 09:26:14 UTC

Yay!

I had to stop reading it for a bit to recover from the endless character POV switches. Every time I start a scene, I start in media res with a different character, so I must spend half the bloody word count trying to explain what the heck is going on.