Doctor Who Target Novelisations

[realdoctor]

@JustAsPlanned

I will say that for this particular story I’d prefer a POC to be adapting it (or at least to be present in the creative process). Multiple POVs means looking at the world through the perspective of a finetimer, which in and of itself would need to be done very, very sensitively for it to work

I agree. Getting feedback (and potentially proper input too) from a person of colour would be an excellent idea.

As for the perspective of a Finetimer? Yes, but you’re right about it needing to be sensitive. It IS s a rich topic to explore. One of the lovely things about the novelisations is that they can push boundaries and go to places that the TV episodes need necessarily be more cautious about. I think a novelisation could expose the unpleasant nature underlying all of Finetime much more overtly than on screen. It would be a very different novelisation, but that’s no bad thing.

[Jamie]

three new targets coming january 2026 titles tbc

https://x.com/whomerchandise/status/1922352204461097335?s=46

[DontBlink]

please be more thirteen please be more thirteen please be more thirteen please be more thirteen

[nyssaoftraken]

Joseph Lidster Whichever episode that is, I’ll be getting it!

[Tian]

Interesting. I must mean that they still are selling great! I would guess that it is three different modern Doctors.

[DontBlink]

Oh wait Jenny Colgan is writing one…

Please keep her far away from Thirteen as possible!

/hj /lh

[TrakeniteAdventuress]

Matt Jones?
Please be Satan Pit, that’d be lovely

[MrColdStream]

Maybe she has turned the tide on her writing?

[Tian]

I was just going to write that

[DontBlink]

The Turning of the Tide is not a laughing matter

[Tian]

I think that would be a great book! It is always best when the TV writer writes the book.

[DontBlink]

Ooh yes please

[Tian]

Could Amy make her Target debut?

[timeywimeythespian]

I’m hoping that one day “The Story and the Engine” is adapted into a novel by Inua Ellams.

[Tian]

@nyssaoftraken

Joseph Lidster Whichever episode that is, I’ll be getting it!

What has he done to deserve an instant buy? /gen

[MrColdStream]

Nothing.

100 grader nåjaa

[DontBlink]

Didn’t he write Master and Broken?

Two highly regarded audios AFAIK

[nyssaoftraken]

Master and Broken yes, I like those a lot, but they don’t even crack top 10 Lidster for me! He’s a fantastic BF writer and has done lots of fantastic work across Who, Torchwood and Benny.

[Tian]

I have listened to some of his work (not those) and seem to have rated them kind of good. Now I am excited for him too!

[nyssaoftraken]

I’d recommend the Short Trip A Full Life for an example of why I love Jo Lidster. It’s short and cheap and so heartbreaking!

Edit: I kinda want to make a Top 10 Jo Lidster stories now…