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Post by bobod on Jan 18, 2019 9:53:26 GMT
Oh yeah, I saw Facebook posts about that a while back.
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Post by bobod on Jan 19, 2019 3:45:21 GMT
Hardbacks of both Resurrection and Revelation up for pre-order on Amazon.
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Post by constonks on Jan 19, 2019 4:03:17 GMT
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Post by agentten on Jan 19, 2019 6:22:36 GMT
I'm glad this is finally happening. It felt like a gap that would never end. Dare I hope for a Dimensions in Time novelization to follow?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2019 11:41:10 GMT
Hardbacks of both Resurrection and Revelation up for pre-order on Amazon. There has been some complaints on Twitter that they are unimaginative and that the Dalek is a cut and paste from the 1978 Dalek annual. That they don't look like 'Doctor Who'. I quite like the though as hardbacks - they look quite classy. Would like to see the paperbacks fit in with the Target look though, just for old times sake.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2019 11:51:23 GMT
Hardbacks of both Resurrection and Revelation up for pre-order on Amazon. There has been some complaints on Twitter ... It doesn't matter what the covers look like, there would still be complaints on Twitter!
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Post by fitzoliverj on Jan 19, 2019 16:03:11 GMT
As I recall, the novelisations planned for the 1990s fell through because Virgin wanted Gareth Roberts and Paul Leonard to do them as full-length Missing Adventures but Saward insisted on writing them himself in the old short Target format. I wonder how these 21st century editions will read.
(Gareth Roberts was subsequently recommisioned and wrote "The Plotters", perhaps the best of the MAs. I can't remember if or what Paul Leonard wrote instead).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2019 17:32:11 GMT
Sourced from the internet (apologies that i haven't author credits - but they are freely available and esp useful as a thumbnail, for those who have the NZ Fan Club novelisation) THIS is the sort of thing I would love to see on the paperback, rather than an anachronistic Chris Achilleos pastiche. Pigs might fly....
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Post by mark687 on Jan 21, 2019 21:17:32 GMT
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Post by bobod on Jan 22, 2019 14:21:02 GMT
Try 35...
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You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Jan 22, 2019 15:19:22 GMT
I see the old 1970s/80s Target policy of not showing the Doctor on the cover if it is not the current Doctor is alive and well!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2019 20:34:04 GMT
I see the old 1970s/80s Target policy of not showing the Doctor on the cover if it is not the current Doctor is alive and well!!! I'd rather have a Dalek anyway!
(Even if I do need to wear my glasses to see it!)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2019 7:36:12 GMT
Sourced from the internet (apologies that i haven't author credits - but they are freely available and esp useful as a thumbnail, for those who have the NZ Fan Club novelisation) THIS is the sort of thing I would love to see on the paperback, rather than an anachronistic Chris Achilleos pastiche. Pigs might fly.... Can help you with the one on the left in blue-and-gold. Apparently it's been done by Lee Binding, the chap behind a tonne of wonderful official art for the series: So, pigs may indeed get their chance to fly. I'll certainly be using that as a dustcover when the copy arrives. I see the old 1970s/80s Target policy of not showing the Doctor on the cover if it is not the current Doctor is alive and well!!! I'd rather have a Dalek anyway! (Even if I do need to wear my glasses to see it!)
Every man should have a sign reading: "If you can see this Dalek, you're standing too close."
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Post by coffeeaddict on Jul 29, 2019 22:49:24 GMT
Just finished reading Resurrection of the Daleks - I've read better. This is not one of Saward's better efforts. At times it seemed to me like he was trying to be Douglas Adams when trying to expand upon the source material. The end result is the weakest of the TARGET novelizations. I'm not holding our much hope for Revelation being any better.
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Post by frisby78 on Aug 1, 2019 12:40:23 GMT
Just finished reading Resurrection of the Daleks - I've read better. This is not one of Saward's better efforts. At times it seemed to me like he was trying to be Douglas Adams when trying to expand upon the source material. The end result is the weakest of the TARGET novelizations. I'm not holding our much hope for Revelation being any better. I too was underwhelmed.
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Post by coffeeaddict on Aug 1, 2019 20:54:43 GMT
Just finished reading Resurrection of the Daleks - I've read better. This is not one of Saward's better efforts. At times it seemed to me like he was trying to be Douglas Adams when trying to expand upon the source material. The end result is the weakest of the TARGET novelizations. I'm not holding our much hope for Revelation being any better. I too was underwhelmed. I think some of the twitter reviews calling it bad fan fic are going a little far, but yeah it was not that great. It is the only book this year that I seriously considered not finishing.
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Post by stcoop on Aug 1, 2019 21:35:56 GMT
So this a dilemma; do I buy Revelation knowing how poor it's going to be or do I leave that one last gap in my novelisations?
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Post by coffeeaddict on Aug 1, 2019 23:26:57 GMT
So this a dilemma; do I buy Revelation knowing how poor it's going to be or do I leave that one last gap in my novelisations? It is less than 200 pages. Reviews tend to be highly subjective, hence why I only look at them after so as to avoid reading a book / watching or listening to something without being pre-conditioned to hate or love it. That said, you might enjoy the book more than I did - and the hole in your collection might drive you nuts.
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Post by iainmclaughlin on Aug 29, 2019 10:33:55 GMT
I really, really wanted to love this - or even to like it. In the end I struggled to finish it. I've never abandoned a Who novelisation part way through but I came very close with this one. It's all subjective but I really didn't enjoy it at all.
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Post by coffeeaddict on Nov 22, 2019 1:51:30 GMT
Provided you can make it past the first chapter (good god it was painful), Revelation is marginally better than Resurrection.
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