My bad, it was a bootleg novelisation lol. In my defence, I merely glanced at it when exploring this folder months ago and they did a decent job making it look somewhat official
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Thank goodness for that. I thought my all-encompassing fan knowledge had let me down!
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Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight due the same day.
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house not a creature was stirring…
But something must be stirring. Something hidden in the shadows. Something which kills the servants of an old Edwardian mansion in the most brutal and macabre manner possible. Exactly on the chiming of the hour, every hour, as the grandfather clock ticks on towards midnight.
Trapped and afraid, the Doctor and his companion, Charley, are forced to play detective to murders with no motive, where even the victims don’t stay dead. Time is running out.
And time itself might well be the killer…
Featuring the Eight Doctor as played on TV by Paul McGann and Charley Pollard as played on audio by India Fisher, The Chimes of Midnight is the second novelisation of a Big Finish audio drama after Jubilee – also by prize-winning playwright and short story writer Robert Shearman.
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I have to read these two
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whattttt is happening… my mind is literally about to explode
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I’m really interested in the idea of Big Finish adaptations, plus they’re of audios I’ve always wanted to listen to, so I’ll make sure to get round to Jubilee and Chimes before these books come out!
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This feels too good to be true!
They have to be trolling us!
April 1st is three months from now!
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Oh that seems amazing, I really want to read that one! (I’ll probably really want to read jubilee too as soon as I get around to listening to it)
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Well Mr Shearman has obviously been busy!
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I’m not the biggest fan of Doctor Who novels personally. I’ve read a fair few considering they were once upon a time the primary medium of the show’s continuation, and some are genuinely brilliant. I’ve just never found them my favourite medium for Doctor Who stories. (Same with comic strips).
Novelisations even less so because the stories exist elsewhere. Again, there are some exceptions given that there are novelisations which re-interpret a TV story so freshly that they almost become new stories.
HOWEVER, that they’re even doing this makes me incredibly happy. Folding in Big Finish stories into the novelisation range alongside TV stories just gives Big Finish even more legitimacy and I love that.
So when things get announced in areas of Doctor Who I tend not to dip my toe in, I still have the capacity to be excited by it, which is great.
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Lovely! Makes me wonder if they might do two more on the same day (feels like they are looking at early Main Range Stories, so that would leave 5 and 7 out with no Novelizations so far, perhaps a bit far stretched, but who knows?)
Very excited reading either of those two Novels when they come out! ‘New’ Rob Shearman Material in the Whoniverse is always lovely!
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They seem to release books in blocks. For the 9th October, there are already 3 books being released.
So my answer is; Maybe.
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I can’t decide how to feel about these. Curious, at the very least, I guess. Not really excited, but likely to get them anyway.
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If you’re on the fence, see if your local library will purchase a copy for their collection. Then you can see if it’s worth purchasing for yourself.
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Clearly, Darth, you don’t me at all. For me, with Doctor Who books, it’s at least as much about having as it is about reading.
If I’m gonna read it, there’s gonna be evidence on my bookshelf!
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Fair enough.
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Don’t get me wrong, good suggestion. Though TBH I don’t know if there’s much chance of US libraries getting Doctor Who books per request. In my life I’ve never asked a library to get a book they didn’t have. Don’t have a clue! But still a nice suggestion.
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Ask the librarians they would know. My library has a “Can’t Find It” request form where you can request items that aren’t in the catalog. I can make ten of these a month. The requests then go to the Inter-library Loan department. They review the requests. If an item is ten years old or newer it’s considered for purchase. If it’s older, they look for a library somewhere in the USA (since that’s my home country) who has a copy and request it from there. This feature is how I’ve gotten a large selection of Big Finish, all the Doctor Who novels and comics I’ve read and lots more non-Who items. My use of the Can’t Find It request is why my library system has a collection of Big Finish, as well as the 60th Anniversary novelizations. It doesn’t hurt to ask.
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If I’ve got a Doctor Who novel completed on my Guide profile, I got it through my library.
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