Book #174 of 2025: Doctor Who: Love and War by Paul Cornell (Virgin New Adventures #9) The New Adventures series of Doctor Who novels, put out by Virgin Publishing after the TV show went off the air in 1989, has until now played somewhat safe with its core premise. The Seventh Doctor and Ace were …
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Book #64 of 2025: Doctor Who: Timewyrm: Revelation by Paul Cornell (Virgin New Adventures #4) The year is 1991, and the newly-canceled Doctor Who — what we now call “Classic” Who, to distinguish it from the post-2005 version — has been limping on in the form of these licensed novels continuing the story of the …
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Book #221 of 2021: Doctor Who: Adventures in Lockdown edited by Steve Cole This 2020 publication is a lovely collection of short fiction, all either written during the COVID-19 pandemic or at least unreleased until then. Only three of the sixteen entries are brand-new for this title; most were posted free online over the course …
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Book #77 of 2019: Doctor Who: Human Nature by Paul Cornell (Virgin New Adventures #38) This Doctor Who novel was first published in 1995, back during the wilderness years when the television show had been canceled and the franchise was only continuing through such works on paper. These days it’s more famous for having been …
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Book #21 of 2016: Rogues edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois Rogues took me forever to read, partly because it’s a really long book and partly because I had to share custody of the library copy with two or three other people, so there were weeks at a time when I couldn’t …
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