aztec
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Post by aztec on Jan 2, 2017 15:43:24 GMT
Have you read or seen any of the various unofficial or charity Who books, or video productions? and what did you think of them?
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Post by mbt66 on Jan 2, 2017 16:04:47 GMT
After listening to Big Finish War Doctor I was pleased to see that The Seasons of War charity collection is back on sale - yesterday I ordered the paperback book.
This will be my first taste of unofficial Doctor Who at has a lot of well known writers, so I am sure it will be excellent, but even if it isn't at leas it's for charity, so I won't mind!
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Jan 2, 2017 16:12:06 GMT
Shameless plug ahoy!I contributed to one: Time Shadows. My own story is a fun little sci-fi western called Iron Joe, starring temperamental old Six and his steadfast American companion, Peri. Naturally I won't spoil much, just give you the little blurb: The Sixth Doctor and Peri are aboard the recently inaugurated Transcontinental Railroad in 1869. However, the train is soon assailed by bandits, including one whose legend has spread all over the west. An unstoppable man of metal known only as “Iron Joe”. The proceeds went, and are still going, to the Enable Community Foundation, a really good cause for the physically impaired and disabled. Every penny counts and we are beyond grateful for it and the lives you help make a difference to: www.lulu.com/shop/matt-grady-and-samuel-gibb/time-shadows/paperback/product-22750801.htmlThanks again to everyone who has chipped in thus far.
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aztec
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Post by aztec on Jan 2, 2017 16:14:35 GMT
Anyone read Seasons Of War? How does the portrayal of the War Doctor differ to BF's?
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Post by constonks on Jan 5, 2017 16:08:42 GMT
I paid for the digital copy of Seasons of War back when it was first released but I've barely touched it. I loved that video trailer they made.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Jan 6, 2017 12:55:28 GMT
After listening to Big Finish War Doctor I was pleased to see that The Seasons of War charity collection is back on sale - yesterday I ordered the paperback book. This will be my first taste of unofficial Doctor Who at has a lot of well known writers, so I am sure it will be excellent, but even if it isn't at leas it's for charity, so I won't mind! I ordered The Final Edition yesterday, so am looking forward to it. I assume its paperback, well it would have to be really lol One I'm also looking to get is Jim Mortimore's Campaign. The First Doctor book he wrote, which BBC then decided they werent gonna release, so he did it himself lol
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 13:42:59 GMT
Anyone read Seasons Of War? How does the portrayal of the War Doctor differ to BF's? Rougher, angrier, more like a soldier. In some stories, he feels like a killer. One I'm also looking to get is Jim Mortimore's Campaign. The First Doctor book he wrote, which BBC then decided they werent gonna release, so he did it himself lol Oh, I think you'll find it really special. Jim's always enjoyed playing around with formats and Campaign is one of his best attempts at bending everything you know about Doctor Who backwards over itself like an origami tesseract while still making it feel like the show. Phew. Okay, where to begin... I rather enjoyed BBV's The Stranger stories on video, even when they decided to forego the pretence and instead have their Doctor become a terrorist called Solomon. Credit to Nick Briggs, the Protectorate and the Preceptors are a set of ideas I would love to have adapted for the post-Time War Doctor Who universe. Auton, Downtime and Shakedown were all pretty fun too, adding a new time-specific dimension to preexisting monsters. Not a reinvention, per se, but something equally as intriguing. The TSV novelisations done by the New Zealand Club were really nice as well, I actually prefer their version of City of Death to the one that you can find on bookshelves today. Rich Morris's long epic of The Ten Doctors was the reunion special I didn't even know I wanted, but got and was delighted by anyway. Time's Champion is my personal favourite de facto regeneration story for Sixy. The Audio Visuals stories done by proto-Big Finish during the 1980s and early 1990s are some of my favourite stories period, I like to think of Nick Briggs's portrayal as a far-flung future Doctor we haven't got to yet. I need to buy a copy of Time Shadows, I really, really like the premise.
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Post by sailorhaumea on Jan 7, 2017 18:15:59 GMT
I agree that the Audio Visuals are in the Doctor's future. The DWM comic Party Animals even has its Doctor and Ria meet Seven!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2017 1:09:14 GMT
I agree that the Audio Visuals are in the Doctor's future. The DWM comic Party Animals even has its Doctor and Ria meet Seven! And Frozen Time acts as a pseudo-sequel to Nick Briggs's epic Endurance (minus the Silurian metropolis). Valhalla is one of those audios that strikes me as something that could have been done for his Doctor immediately after Justyce really, it has a very similar atmosphere to those stories.
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Jan 8, 2017 11:21:11 GMT
By the by, if anyone here has managed to read Time Shadows, let me know how you liked it.
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