I hadn't realised that the PDF of the current issue of Tides of Time is downloadable now. The current issue of the Oxford (University) Doctor Who Society fanzine, published at the end of June this year, features lockdown reflections, views on Revolution of the Daleks, Sisterhood of Karn/Cyberman fiction, Time Lord Victorious, Doctor in Distress, and the 2020 Varsity Quiz, among much else. For more details see here, and download the actual issue in PDF here
I'm no longer the editor of The Tides of Time, magazine of the Oxford (University) Doctor Who Society, having left it to younger hands in the shape of recent graduate [twitter.com profile] jamesashworth98, but have contributed to this latest issue, 104 pages on everything from Revolution of the Daleks to Gangsters via Time Lord Victorious. Details of the issue's contents can be found here. The society is collecting orders through this form - please complete if you are interested.
Back at the end of May, the locked down and locked out Oxford (University) Doctor Who Society published a double issue, 45&46, of our fanzine, The Tides of Time. We didn't expect printing it would be possible, so it was released online as a pdf. With matters being a bit more flexible in the present state of Covid-19 affairs in England, we have now been able to print the issue, with corrections from the pdf, and copies can be ordered on eBay from the page linked below. This is the first issue to be perfect bound, with 172 colour pages including a card cover.

Tides of Time 45&46 on eBay
The latest issue of Oxford University's Doctor Who fanzine is a double issue of 172 pages. More details behind this cut ).
We have been busy at Tides of Time towers (a block of flats outside Oxford as much as a student room in an ancient college) and have published a special pdf-only issue reporting from Doctor Who conventions at Aldbourne, Banbury, Bedford and Derby as well as appearances in the recent past by Russell T Davies and in the more remote past by Sophie Aldred. To find out more and download the special (no charge), see this post.
Issue 43 of The Tides of Time, first published at the end of April 2019, is now available as a free PDF download. See this page for contents and links to the download and (still available) print editions.
Copied directly from website of said zine, published by the Oxford (University) Doctor Who Society:

The Tides of Time #43 for Trinity Term 2019 is now available in print to discerning readers everywhere! The issue is 80 pages of full A5 colour, and print copies of this issue are available through this link

Features include:

Reviews of Series 11

  • ‘Perhaps I’ve thought everything I’ll ever think’ – Ian Bayley discusses the Society’s predictions for Series 11

  • The Victoria Line – Society President Victoria Walker reviews each episode of Series 11

  • ‘If I was still a bloke, I could just get on with the job and not have to waste time defending myself’ – Georgia Harper discusses the response to the Thirteenth Doctor’s debut

  • Team, gang, fam? –  Francis Stojsavljevic summarises the collective views of the Society on the episodes, characters and features of Series 11

  • ‘I’ve lost track of what’s actually happening’ – Georgia Harper relays the reactions of Time and Relative Dimensions in Shitposting

  • Say you want a Resolution – Matthew Kilburn reviews the New Year’s Special


Poetry

  • Haiku for The Woman Who Fell To Earth by William Shaw

  • Haiku for The Witchfinders by William Shaw

  • Haiku for Resolution by William Shaw


Books

  • Timewyrm Tales – James Ashworth reviews the first four novels of the Virgin New Adventures

  • Bookwyrm Reviewed – Stephen Brennan reviews Bookwyrm, the new novel exploring the New Adventures in their entirety, from Robert Smith? and society alumnus Anthony Wilson

  • You all right, Hun? – Georgia Harper reviews the new Thirteenth Doctor novel, Combat Magicks


Features

  • Wise Men Say – Andrew O’Day discusses the allegories of Kinda andSnakedance

  • As Time Goes By – Oli Jones defends The Time of the Doctor

  • Top or Flop: The Capaldi Conundrum –  James Ashworth and Ian Bayley debate the relative merits of the Capaldi-era titles

  • Hail to the Chief – Rory Salt shines light on the work of Big Chief Studios

  • Hmm? – Ian Bayley discusses David Bradley’s work on Doctor Who, after his visit to the Oxford Union

  • Equilibrium by Philip Holdridge, featuring the new TARDIS crew on a mission to another universe


Again, here's the link to buy through!
My review, this week at the Doctor Who News Page's reviews section.

Afterword on my review, at The Event Library

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Also, news on the publication of issue 42 of the Oxford-based Doctor Who fanzine, The Tides of Time.
sir_guinglain: (Pertwee_TVAction)
( Jul. 30th, 2018 09:42 pm)
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
Summary:

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.

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.

More details )
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.
The Oxford Doctor Who Society still has a number of copies of Tides of Time available, and they can now be bought via eBay.
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 .
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.
I was asked last week to review The Power of the Daleks for Timelines, the Doctor Who blog of longstanding fan and prolific fanzine editor John Connors, which is worth checking out for its reviews and its material from John's rich archive of fan memories such as convention reviews and photographs from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The review was published a few hours ago and can be found here.

However, when preparing the link from my own review blog, The Event Library, I realised I'd not mentioned Patrick Troughton specifically, which was something of an omission when covering Troughton's first story. So there can be found a couple of paragraphs on Troughton at that post.
More musings on Doctor Who and national identity from me have been published at John Connors's Time Lines blog. I've written an introduction with more ideas at The Event Library, and the posts themselves are available at part two and part three.
The first part of a series of musings on Doctor Who and British identity, at John Connors's Timelines blog, originally commissioned by John for the fanzine Plaything of Sutekh which he co-edited with Richard Farrell. A short introduction can be found at The Event Library, too.
Now available for download from The Terrible Zodin website, issue 18 of the said The Terrible Zodin includes within its ninety-eight pages a look at the career of Valentine Dyall, reviews of series nine (where I get to review a story a second time), a look back at the Missing Adventures series published in the 1990s by Virgin, fiction, artwork, and other Whoish items.
No essay from me this week, but negatives first. There aren't many of them, and are largely personal in that there's always an awkwardness to me in the Doctor revelling in pop culture or being a rock musician, and yet here I can see it was the right choice. I'm not sure where the Doctor's audience in 1138 went either...

Otherwise, superlatives. Steven Moffat and company projected their most coherent vision of the Doctor Who universe so far; though I did find myself wondering if the Shadow Architect's hairdresser (probably a Judoon, come to think of it) had been killed in action since The Stolen Earth. The Maldovarium is a sorrier place for the loss of Dorium. Clara's confidence as schoolteacher and UNIT's contact radiated and Jenna Coleman's authority in the part was more than a match for Michelle Gomez's calculating tricksiness. The traps within traps were sprung and the Daleks depicted as more detached from human or Gallifreyan values while justifying their fond parent's description of them as children. Barry Norman's comparison of fifty years ago, that they are devices through which children imagine killing grown-ups, was made plain here; as was the realisation most fans have had at some time, that the Daleks are tanks (and I'll link to John Wilson's article on the subject as soon as I've identified the relevant issue of Tides of Time - [ETA it's issue 23, but I can't manage the link at present - search for "Tides 23" at tidesoftime.wordpress.com for the pdf]). Taking up the convincingly-performed but sidestepped 'Do I have the right?' speech from Genesis of the Daleks is a dangerous exercise and we'll only find how well it works next week. Otherwise, a sense of the programme trying something new and Peter Capaldi's most moving and enthralling performance in the role.

Also posted at The Event Library
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