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Written up at last at The Event Library.
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No considered review this time, but some quick reflections and links to some other reviews, set out at The Event Library
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Another Series Eleven review from me, back at The Event Library. Compassionate ethics and the shadows of Malcolm Hulke, Robert Sloman and Eric Saward, and a project manager in the time machine trade.
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A new season, a new Doctor, a new showrunner, and lots of newness. So it's no surprise that there was a touch of light familiarity to this new season. I've written more about the symbolism and more at Space-Time Telegraph.
Two other reviews with different opinions:
James Cooray Smith at Hero Collector
J.R. Southall at Starburst
Two other reviews with different opinions:
James Cooray Smith at Hero Collector
J.R. Southall at Starburst
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I have a book out, in Obverse's series of Doctor Who monographs The Black Archive. For more details and a link to download a sample, see the publisher's website.
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This is not the last time that I will be promoting this book here, for transparent reasons. "Explore Gothic castles, ghosts in armour, amphibious landings and a heroine who already knows her own mind, as the gargoyles of the Gothic aesthetic merge with the bogeymen of Britain's imperial decline," says the author on Facebook about his contribution to Obverse Books' series of Doctor Who monographs.
On Twitter, he reports "My entry in @theblackarchive series of monographs on individual Doctor Who stories can now be ordered from the publisher. This 1973 story dwelt in currents of Gothic literature and film, feminism and post-imperial consciousness, and potato-headed aliens."
Here, he urges you to go to The Black Archive website and place an order for the print edition of The Black Archive 24: The Time Warrior. Ebook ordering to follow on publication day or thereabouts.
On Twitter, he reports "My entry in @theblackarchive series of monographs on individual Doctor Who stories can now be ordered from the publisher. This 1973 story dwelt in currents of Gothic literature and film, feminism and post-imperial consciousness, and potato-headed aliens."
Here, he urges you to go to The Black Archive website and place an order for the print edition of The Black Archive 24: The Time Warrior. Ebook ordering to follow on publication day or thereabouts.
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Farewell to an extraordinary actor. Maximum power, always.
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I've posted one of my ventures into fan fiction to AO3:
Umbrella (3191 words) by SirGuinglain
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who, Giles cartoons
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Third Doctor, Zoe Heriot
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Umbrella (3191 words) by SirGuinglain
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who, Giles cartoons
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Third Doctor, Zoe Heriot
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In an alternative timeline where Zoe was exiled to Earth with the Doctor (as was intended at one point), Zoe has difficulty blending in to twentieth-century London - and it looks as if twentieth-century London might have its own ideas. First published in issue 20 of 'The Terrible Zodin', Fall 2017.
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Some blatant fanzine plugging:
The latest issue of The Tides of Time, number 41, was published by The Oxford Doctor Who Society in June 2018. It's printed in colour throughout its 80 pages and is edited by James Ashworth, who is studying biology at Worcester College, and society veteran, its historian Matthew Kilburn.
Copies of the print edition can be ordered within the UK for £3.50 via PayPal. Contact us for information about overseas orders.
A PDF of the issue (compact, just over 5Mb in size) can be downloaded from this link.
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The latest issue of The Tides of Time, number 41, was published by The Oxford Doctor Who Society in June 2018. It's printed in colour throughout its 80 pages and is edited by James Ashworth, who is studying biology at Worcester College, and society veteran, its historian Matthew Kilburn.
Copies of the print edition can be ordered within the UK for £3.50 via PayPal. Contact us for information about overseas orders.
A PDF of the issue (compact, just over 5Mb in size) can be downloaded from this link.
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Over at The Event Library, some thoughts by me on what Doctor Who readers were expecting from David Whitaker, why they were expecting it, and whether their wishes were realistic.
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My review from Goodreads:
Philip Pullman has returned to the world of Lyra, nearly two decades after completing the trilogy His Dark Materials - but the events narrated are set about ten years before those of the books which illuminated children's literature in the 1990s. This isn't a backward-looking story; more light and plenty of shade is cast over Lyra's world, with details of stratification of class, income and education which resonate in the era of Trump and Brexit. Pullman's concerns over the natures of knowledge and consciousness are perhaps even more acute in his storytelling, enriched here by Thames lore which calls back to the age of Kipling and Grahame and toasts the modernity of Aaronovitch. Characters are spun carefully and unpredictably and we get to know a few old friends better. Perhaps, now, we have a clue why Lyra is surnamed Belacqua; and perhaps the Silent Commonwealth had to prefigure the Republic of Heaven.
Philip Pullman has returned to the world of Lyra, nearly two decades after completing the trilogy His Dark Materials - but the events narrated are set about ten years before those of the books which illuminated children's literature in the 1990s. This isn't a backward-looking story; more light and plenty of shade is cast over Lyra's world, with details of stratification of class, income and education which resonate in the era of Trump and Brexit. Pullman's concerns over the natures of knowledge and consciousness are perhaps even more acute in his storytelling, enriched here by Thames lore which calls back to the age of Kipling and Grahame and toasts the modernity of Aaronovitch. Characters are spun carefully and unpredictably and we get to know a few old friends better. Perhaps, now, we have a clue why Lyra is surnamed Belacqua; and perhaps the Silent Commonwealth had to prefigure the Republic of Heaven.
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The Oxford Doctor Who Society still has a number of copies of Tides of Time available, and they can now be bought via eBay.
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I mentioned issue 40 of Tides of Time, the Oxford University Doctor Who fanzine, in an earlier post. It's now free to download from http://tidesoftime.wordpress.com .
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There is a new issue of The Tides of Time, magazine of the Oxford University Doctor Who Society, now published, and there are a limited number of print copies available. For more details see the magazine's website.
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"The vicissitudes of old books furnish a romantic chapter in the history of literature. About the end of the eighteenth century, the library of an old Lincolnshire house was overhauled by someone who weeded out a lot of what he no doubt considered rubbish. These were destroyed, except for a few which were begged by the gardener, who probably wanted them to use as stands for plant-pots, or to give a false air of literary distinction to his cottage."
--- J. Arthur Hill, 'Old Books and their Printers', The Imprint, 17 June 1913, p 407.
This periodical celebrated the beauty of good craft for its own sake as well as for the benefit of the businesses of its readers, but it seems the appreciation of good printing could not be expected from all. (in this case 'The Book of St Albans', which came into the possession of Thomas Grenville a few steps after the gardener, and is now in the British Library.)
--- J. Arthur Hill, 'Old Books and their Printers', The Imprint, 17 June 1913, p 407.
This periodical celebrated the beauty of good craft for its own sake as well as for the benefit of the businesses of its readers, but it seems the appreciation of good printing could not be expected from all. (in this case 'The Book of St Albans', which came into the possession of Thomas Grenville a few steps after the gardener, and is now in the British Library.)
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Thoughts from the Oxford Doctor Who Society on the most recent series, condensed from several weeks of discussion on Facebook Messenger, are now available in one document downloadable from The Tides of Time blog.
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