This arrived, The DNA of Doctor Who: The Philip Hinchcliffe Years, a kickstarter from the people behind Cutaway Comics. A really nice book full of essays on the era.
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Brought scratch man with me as my holiday reading. Really enjoying it so far. Hits the hammer horror vibe of the era well. Properly creepy.
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Oooh, this was mentioned in a podcast I listened to a week or two back and it sounded interesting. Please let us know if it’s worth getting!
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Continuing through Fifteen Doctors, Fifteen Stories and I’m enjoying it, though I’m jumping between Doctors now.
The Dalmatian Terrain was fun, lovely to have a little bit more of Fifteen.
Spore was okay. I liked the general idea, but found this to be very generic Eighth Doctor with not much characterisation that we’ve come to love him for. The american setting is a suitable follow up to the TV movie though.
Time Lapse was a great little Thirteen story. Just a fun little adventure and the time aspects were great.
Not sure which Doctor I’ll pick next but aside from the First Doctor story I have found them all to be good.
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Started The Knights of Atlantis, the most recent Wilde & Chase novel from Andy McDermott on Thursday.
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About halfway through Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters and am finding it immensely enjoyable. Malcolm Hulke is a charmingly practical writer who doesn’t do a lot of faffing about and absolutely lays into the big beefy British Empire bastard in this story about who has a particular claim on some land (OK, Earth, but that’s semantics), so that’s another big scratch in the column for “Doctor Who has always been political!”.
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Looks stunning, have a good holiday!
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I thought Grease was the word? 
Looks fantastic 
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Yup, me too. I don’t get the hate. I can get around the continuity issues. it’s not as if there aren’t plenty of continuity issues in Dalek history and in Doctor Who in general. That’s what happens, I guess, when an extradimensional God of games makes a jigsaw of your life!
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Yes, I really enjoyed this too. Read it when it first came out and just thoroughly enjoyed the ride.
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Finished Book 1 - this was really good. Some good body horror that makes the best of being unconstrained by the limits of CGI. Fleshes out Sarah and Harry’s character a bit too. Strong antagonist. Starting book 2 after lunch!
Spoilers for book 1 - I think this would’ve worked better without revealing the cyber man were behind it all. They won’t really do anything and I think it preserves the sense of mystery a bit better if the beginnings of the virus are left a bit more vague. The postmistress is already a great antagonist for the story with Scratchman behind the scenes. Didn’t really need the tinpot middlemen. Only impacts about a 5 pages though.
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After a break I started the Dooms Day book again yesterday. Almost done with the next hour.
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Just finished the excellent Beautiful Chaos.
Now, what to read next?
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How about Shining Darkness? It also features Donna and gosh how I loved it!
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I took a headstart on The Resurrection Casket. It’s pretty interesting so far!
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I’ve finally admitted defeat with the Black Archive on Marco Polo. It’s full of academic terminology (half of which sounds made up) that just makes me feel stupid. It also seems to repeating the same points over and over again and at halfway through I’m not sure I can be bothered being beaten round the head with the same linguistically obfuscated theories.
It has also not made me appreciate Marco Polo any more and if anything makes me like the story less.
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Finished Scratchman with a couple of hours to spare. Now in the hotel lending library for the next Whovian to check in.
Without spoiling anything the second part/book is a very different beast but equally excellent.
It took me stupidly long to realise the ‘northern woman’ was the 13th Doctor.
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There’s a hotel library somewhere that has Scratchman in it??!??!? Wow!!!
There IS hope left for the human race!!!
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I’ve never heard of a hotel library, sounds cool!
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I started the second volume of Tenth Doctor IDW comics.
Not to get too of topic, but if a hotel library gets people excited, imagine the thrill of staying in the Library Hotel. I’ve never stayed there (Probably outside my budget), but wouldn’t it be great if I had all the money in the world?
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