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10th Dec 2010, 10:05 PM #1
Stephen Baxter writing a Doctor Who novel!
Sci fi author, Stephen Baxter is writing a Doctor Who novel next year, the most recent SFX Doctor Who special reveals.
Apparently it's a Second Doctor story.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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11th Dec 2010, 9:35 AM #2
Hah! He's always 'doing' something or other. Remember when he was going to write a Big Finish? Plus he's got a series of his own he's been working on.
I'll look forward to it if it does show up though!Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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11th Dec 2010, 2:35 PM #3
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11th Dec 2010, 4:21 PM #4
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Is Stephen Baxter any good? I'm especially cautious since Michael Moorcock's supposed to be good, and Stephen's supposed to be 'doing' a trilogy with Terry Pratchett about now as well, which doesn't sound like it's the best and most original idea in the world to me.
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12th Dec 2010, 1:43 PM #5
Aside from a nice article on home-made Doctor Who memorabilia, there's nothing much exciting in the SFX special.
Stephen Baxter is a great sci-fi novelist with some fantastic big ideas. His characterisation is often a little sidelined, but the joy of Baxter are the concepts. He recently did a very good thriller about the whole world being slowly flooded (in the book Flood, well worth a read). He's done historical novels too and a series of books about a tribe of woolly mammoths (!) but his most groundbreaking work was his early sci-fi books such as 'Time' and 'Space'. My favourite of his novels was something else again, a book called 'Titan' which imagined how the first space mission to Mars would pan out if it was carried out in the next few decades. A very passionate and fascinating read.Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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12th Dec 2010, 1:56 PM #6
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He's one of those authors I've heard generalisations said, and alas, there aren't enough hours in the day to read everyone. I think the only other project I'd heard him connected with was a sequel to The Time Machine.
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