The books on ebay usually average like $20 (USD) when i go looking, but the first few have ballooned in price like crazy. Especially Vampire Science and Alien Bodies from what I’ve seen. I’ve known people who found them for cheap in person at used book stores, and I’ve seen ads for stores selling them in DWM. But if you’re not in the UK it’s harder to find them.
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Tough to find in the US.
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Done and looks cool! Thx!
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There is books for Sam and there is books for Sam. War of the Daleks for me is a clear example of how having a male writer dealing with a young girl with such struggles as Sam has can be a really tough spot. Sam is really consistent in some ways, every writer kinda agree about her personality, her insecurities and her flaws, but how it comes across depends wildly on who is writing. And John Peel is no Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum.
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I finished Vampire Science last night and my exact thoughts were how good the story was for Sam, she just seems a lot more like a real teenager in this story, compared to ones like War of the Daleks where she sort of just stands at the side and gets jealous
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Okay, I’ve been reading the EDW books in order, BUT I did skip #1.
I started with Vampire Science and am now to Alien Bodies.
Last night I actually started Alien Bodies and POOF!!! ---- Sam has now turned into Sarah…!
Hmmm… What happened to Sam? 
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The beginning of the book is actually set in the past, it’s not Eight with Sarah but Three with Sarah. It all makes sense in the end, I promise.
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Finished Vanderdeken’s Children, after having to hunt for the final pages that were missing from my ebook lol. I liked it because it was very good scifi. Sadly, it’s not very good Doctor Who, though. A bit too dry, not fun or scary or weird enough.
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An excellent review, I agreed with a lot of what you said. It’s not a bad book, it just desperately doesn’t want to be a DW one
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That’s a very good way to put it. I always find it weird when it’s a Doctor Who story, but no-one is having fun at any point. The Doctor is not even excited about exploring the derelict. He kinda ‘has to’, as it’s a weird time ship and therefore it’s his duty as a Time Lord to check it out. Even in scary stories we have some fun times, at least in the beginning, like in Midnight. Or, if it’s very f***ed up and depressing, it’s emotionally intense for the Doctor+Companions (like Scherzo, for instance), which keeps things interesting.
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@NobodyNo-One, Excellent! Thx! I’ll stick with it!
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Quick follow up, you were right, it has already gotten WAY cooler and more understandable (the timeline, etc).
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I love that prologue. Laika makes me so sad.
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Yeah, it was kind of sad and a bit touching!
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The prologue and epilogue ties the main ideas of the book beautifully, just you wait.
Plus Alien Bodies as a whole is cool as hell. WAR IN HEAVEN BABY.
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Sounds great, I’m really looking forward to that tie in and am enjoying the book a lot.
I’m impressed with each DW book I read, they’re just really quite good, with a great mixture of scary (sometimes), fun and sci fi.
I always found it strange that the whole show was aimed at kids (I mean that is what I thought you all said?). To me the closed equivalent in US would be Star Trek (at least for me growing up)
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The books, esp the EDAs and VNAs are definitely not aimed at kids, and I wouldn’t call the TV show exactly a ‘kids show’ but certainly one for the whole family and designed to capture the imaginations of children
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It is and it isn’t? It certaintly was educational in the beginning, that was the show motto in alternating between historicals and sci-fi in the First Doctor era. It remains a “show for the family!” for most of classic, but it starts losing a bit of that reputation when they supposedly up the violence during the Fifth Doctor era.
Supposedly because I don’t think that happened at all and the show has always been violent to that extent (The Dalek’s Master Plan has the most horrific death of the series to date, for me), but oh well. The books were part of a really experimental phase of the Doctor Who universe tho. There is no TV series airing anymore, whatever is happening is being done and being listened/read by “hardcore” fans and you just have lots of creative freedom that I don’t think we’ll ever get again.
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If I may do some propaganda: my favorite corner of the wilderness years is the Eighth Doctor’s comic strips at DWM. Breathtaking.
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So is there not a current DW series going anymore?
It seems like new books are being kicked out often enough, so that’s cool!
And if I stick with the EDA books, I’ll have at least 3+ years of reading to go before I actually have to “pick” a different book series to read from…
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