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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2016 23:10:32 GMT
You'll need to have a sturdy working knowledge of what exactly is going on in the Doctor's life at the moment, so as much as fun as it is I'd really recommend reading The Adventuress of Henrietta Street first, which introduces Sabbath and deals with a lot of the consequences not covered in the Stranded on Earth arc running from The Burning to Escape Velocity. I'd also recommend knowing that Death was a semi-recurring adversary whom the Seventh Doctor never defeated in the New Adventures. Which now you know, so never mind then.  I'd really, really recommend Kate Orman's The Year of Intelligent Tigers as well, simply because it is one of the most beautifully written books I have read and slots right down into this era with little issue. This period before the Alternate Universes arc is a renaissance of sorts for the Eighth Doctor in novels, so any book picked up after Escape Velocity and before Camera Obscura should be good. Good hunting.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2016 23:30:46 GMT
You'll need to have a sturdy working knowledge of what exactly is going on in the Doctor's life at the moment, so as much as fun as it is I'd really recommend reading The Adventuress of Henrietta Street first, which introduces Sabbath and deals with a lot of the consequences not covered in the Stranded on Earth arc running from The Burning to Escape Velocity. I'd also recommend knowing that Death was a semi-recurring adversary whom the Seventh Doctor never defeated in the New Adventures. Which now you know, so never mind then. I'd really, really recommend Kate Orman's The Year of Intelligent Tigers as well, simply because it is one of the most beautifully written books I have read and slots right down into this era with little issue. This period before the Alternate Universes arc is a renaissance of sorts for the Eighth Doctor in novels, so any book picked up after Escape Velocity and before Camera Obscura should be good. Good hunting. Interesting. I think maybe I'll just keep going with my readthrough and get to it in the original context. It sound like that's the best way to enjoy it.  Absolutely.  |
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Post by omega on Apr 8, 2016 0:04:36 GMT
Interesting. I think maybe I'll just keep going with my readthrough and get to it in the original context. It sound like that's the best way to enjoy it. That would be recommended. The Doctor Who Book Club Podcast covered The Last Resort, a rather labyrinthine novel and part of a complicated alternate worlds story arc, a couple of months ago and because they don't read each range in published order they found it difficult to comprehend. The Virgin New Adventures were able to avoid that confusion for the most part, you could pick up a random title and odds are you could pick up the context for character and plot arcs without much trouble. Unfortunately that 2003 era of the Eighth Doctor novels wasn't so lucky, so the complexity of the story arc and the novels starting to be released once every two months could easily have contributed to the declining sales. |
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