In a break from my usual practice, here’s the entry for today, 20 September: The Doctor Meets Two Loch Ness Monsters

The group of Zygons whose spaceship crash-landed in Loch Ness lived beneath the loch for centuries before they discovered their home planet had been destroyed and decided to conquer Earth in Terror of the Zygons (1975). They ( Read more... )

Second paragraph of third chapter: Stung by the criticism and scepticism of his colleagues and peers, Travers accepted Walters' challenge. Together with John Mackay, he went in search of the Abominable Snowman - the fabled Yeti. And in the foothills of the Himalaya Mountains in Tibet, he found it.
I grumble sometimes that Justin Richards is either ( Read more... )

Second paragraph of third letter: I'm sure that even you will soon notice that I have removed your TARDIS's Dimensional Controller. I hope that will be a lesson to you about your tiresome meddling.
This is a spinoff anthology of 128 letters that might have been written to or about the Doctor up to 2015 (so up to the first third of the Capaldi era ( Read more... )

I read four of the books in this series soon after they first came out, and have been hanging onto these three for some time. They are cheerful pieces. Each consists of about two thirds recounting TV Who lore about the subject of the book, and then a relevant short story. Justin Richards (who, as I repeatedly point out, is the most prolific author ( Read more... )

These six audios were released in 2012 and 2013, and I actually bought and listened to them then, but did not get around to writing them up in the press of Worldcon and other business. My revisiting The Talons of Weng-Chiang prompted me to go back to these as well. Unusually for the Jago and Litefoot narrative, they all take place outside Victorian ( Read more... )

One of my vague ambitions for the year ahead is to get back into Big Finish again. There are a load of Big Finish audios which I did listen to a few years back, and never got around to writing up here; I haven't gone into it systematically, but I'll listen again to all those I haven't yet posted about.


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Second paragraph of third story: It had been a terrible accident: a whole section of the tunnel roof had collapsed suddenly, without any warning. Diggin a new subway under New York City was always going to be dangerous, but Pete never expected it to be this dangerous. He never expected three of his fellow workers to be killed in the process - and ( Read more... )

Second paragraph of third chapter:Not that in the event this mattered. The incoming ship he was meeting was itself three hours late. And that was on top of the four hours late he already knew about from the spaceport arrivals bulletin site. So he had a bit of a wait.
Again, a book by an author I generally like but this Bernice Summerfield story with ( Read more... )

Second paragraph of third chapter: The angel was actually a collection of data equations and mathematical emulations that had once been a Ship. Probably. Now it was reborn as Gabriel, though he preferred to go by the name given him by Professor Bernice Summerfield over sherry: Clarence. And God was the supercomputer that, for want of a better ( Read more... )

Maisie Williams' Ashildr didn't turn out to be Susan as I had once hoped; she did turn out to be a very interesting character in her own right, whose future and past histories are now open to all kinds of speculation. I had high hopes for this collection of novellas, since James Goss and Justin Richards, on form, are the best regular Who writers ( Read more... )