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Post by constonks on Mar 29, 2016 2:24:25 GMT
Hey everyone! What's your favourite Doctor Who novel and why?
My top two so far are The Cabinet of Light by Daniel O'Mahony and The Witch Hunters by Steve Lyons.
With Cabinet, I love the pacing and the style and it was just a whole lot of fun. If I were in charge of Doctor Who, I'd want to adapt this story.
The Witch Hunters represents its TARDIS team spectacularly, while taking chances and risks that the show never could have. Lyons tells a strong, intelligent tale that keeps you guessing and makes you feel every gutwrenching emotion alongside the characters. It's great.
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Post by Hieronymus on Mar 29, 2016 4:48:11 GMT
Theatre of War is by far my favorite. Hands down. Of all of them.
A few others that have stuck with me, and I would read again are:
* The Plotters
* The Face of the Enemy
* Superior Beings
* Mission: Impractical
* Lungbarrow
* The Infinity Doctors
* Engines of War
* Only Human
* Beautiful Chaos
* The Silent Stars Go By
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Post by agentten on Mar 29, 2016 4:54:11 GMT
Fear of The Dark by Trevor Baxendale is probably my favorite. It's a really difficult situation for the Doctor to navigate effectively. The nature of the evil he comes into conflict with is such that it truly may not be possible to win. A gothic and somewhat bleak book that pushes Five as far as I've seen him pushed. Hoping that Big Finish will do an adaptation of this someday soon.
I also like Prisoner of The Daleks by Trevor Baxendale, Touched by an Angel by Johnathan Morris, Dead of Winter by James Goss, Goth Opera by Paul Cornell, and Shada by Douglas Adams and Gareth Roberts.
Adaptations of any of these would make my day.
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Post by seeley on Mar 29, 2016 5:37:52 GMT
My top three (in chronological order) are Human Nature, Alien Bodies, and Interference, with the Left-Handed Hummingbird following close behind. All are wonderfully written, wildly inventive, and all-around mind-blowing. Managra (which I suspect was an inspiration for Rob Shearman's My Own Private Wolfgang) also holds a special place in my heart. I read it immediately after Human Nature, and it managed the impressive task of not paling in comparison. A criminally forgotten book.
After that, there's Nightshade, Conundrum, the Banquo Legacy, the Infinity Doctors, the Eye of Heaven, the Witch-Hunters and Blood Heat.
EDIT: Oh, I forgot to mention the Burning. It's a smashing reboot of Doctor Who with the Doctor arguably at his most alien. Had Marc Gatiss' plan for a more Doctor-centric reboot gone ahead, he could have done worse than adapting this.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2016 6:56:53 GMT
Let's see...
Lungbarrow was what made me want to become a writer;
Alien Bodies showed what could truly be done with Doctor Who when you pushed it to its very limits;
The Man in the Velvet Mask for much the same reason;
And Killing Ground for what it was able to do with the Sixth Doctor, who appears very little over the course of the actual novel.
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Post by CookieMaster on Mar 29, 2016 8:23:54 GMT
First Frontier is probably my favourite out of all of them.
Others that i really like include-
*Engines of War
*Harvest of Time
*Face of the Enemy
*The Dark Path
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Mar 29, 2016 8:29:30 GMT
Engines of War because it was our first non-TV look into what went on during the War Doctor's time fighting the Time War.
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Post by constonks on Mar 29, 2016 12:23:19 GMT
In the wake of so many titles, I feel the need to expand my list now, so the rest of my favourites (many of them already listed here) are...
- The Dark Path
- What I consider to be the Master In Prison trilogy (Harvest of Time, Face of the Enemy & Who Killed Kennedy) even if it was released over 17 years.
- Spiral Scratch
- Timewyrm: Revelation
- Blood Heat
- The Left-Handed Hummingbird
- Conundrum
- No Future
- Vampire Science
- Alien Bodies
- Touched by an Angel
Every one of these books did something interesting and every one I would recommend.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Mar 29, 2016 13:03:30 GMT
Alien Bodies. because it pushed the envelope and is just fantastic
Dreams of Empire. Its just a fantastically told tale and really captures the second Doctor
Fear of the Dark. Was really sad with a couple of character deaths and that doesnt happen often in books
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Post by aztec on Mar 29, 2016 20:25:24 GMT
I've only read Engines of War (which I loved) and the EDA's through to The Burning so far, I've enjoyed the majority of the EDA's very much, but these were particular standouts for either just being very fun reads, or genuinely great books in their own right:
Vampire Science
The Bodysnatchers
Alien Bodies
Seeing I
The Scarlet Empress
The Taint
Demontage
Dominion
The Shadows Of Avalon
The Blue Angel
The Ancestor Cell
The Burning
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Post by newt5996 on Mar 30, 2016 0:49:20 GMT
I've read the VNA's to Warlcok and VMA's to Romance of Crime and have loved Timewyrm: Exodus, Love and War, Nightshade, Conundrum, Blood Harvest, All-Consuming Fire, Goth Opera and State of Change
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Post by omega on Mar 30, 2016 0:49:55 GMT
Bad Therapy, because it's great character stuff for the Seventh Doctor and Chris, has a great setting that isn't often used in Doctor Who and the very nature of some of the characters is extremely fascinating.
Bullet Time, The Quantum Archangel (despite being a Time Monster sequel by Craig Hinton stuffed to the gills with superfluous continuity references it just works somehow), Imperial Moon, Millennial Rites, Wolfsbane, EarthWorld, The Tomorrow Windows, The Gallifrey Chronicles, Happy Endings. I've got loads that are favorites, it really depends on what I'm in the mood for.
Others I like that others have mentioned:
Alien Bodies
Timewyrm: Revelation
Nightshade
Fear of the Dark
There are others I haven't mentioned, so I haven't done an exhaustive list.
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Mar 30, 2016 7:25:06 GMT
All Consuming Fire.
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Post by chrism1999 on Mar 31, 2016 11:11:02 GMT
The Romance of Crime, which I luckily managed to find a decent copy of about a year or so ago, having not read it since I was a child taking it out at the local library.
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