Now, a confession: As I moved to pick up this series, I realized that I completed the next novel long ago, but failed to post about it at the time. But today, we’re making a course correction, so, welcome back! I should point out that this is one of the hazards of tracking the Doctor Who universe: There’s so much material to cover, in so many ranges and media, that it’s easy to let a series lapse for far too long. It’s been awhile since our last visit here-almost two years, in fact, when we examined the thirteenth entry, series editor Peter Darvill-Evans’s 1993 novel, Deceit. If that makes sense.We’re back, with another Doctor Who novel review! Today we’re picking up an older thread from this series: The New Adventures line of Seventh Doctor novels, published by Virgin Publishing (series sometimes abbreviated as “VNAs”). I have a feeling they’ll all connect in a sort of quantum-ey way, even if they’re all different. I have a plan for the DCs… it’s a bit wacky though. Perhaps the Director’s Cut will go some way towards redressing the balance … when I finally get round to it … :0) Bex nixed the idea in a heartbeat (and probably quite rightly so!) of course however I was always left with a skanky aftertaste of fake-out-ery … so … if it helps at all … at least you’re not alone. I do remember very clearly thinking that regenerating the Doctor in would be a perfect fit for the storyline and what was happening to everyone else. Parasite really felt a lot like a regeneration story, but, in the end, nothing happened. Parasite was another Mortimore VNA, and when it was written, there were rumors that 7 was going to regenerate into an 8th Doctor designed after David Troughton. His “Flux Doctor” is my favorite Doctor incarnation in fiction. To avoid copyright issues, he made this super cool collapsing-universe concept and reinvented a lot of the mythos in really interesting ways. He started his Director’s Cut series to put the deleted scenes back into the stories and make them thematically more interesting etc etc the first story to get this treatment was Blood Heat. Jim Mortimore said some very interesting things on GallifreyBase about his Director’s Cut series! To catch people up: Jim Mortimore (author of Natural History of Fear and Campaign) wrote a few Seventh Doctor novels in the 90s, but they were extremely limited by the range editors.
0 kommentar(er)
