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Post by omega on Aug 15, 2017 8:24:14 GMT
Before video tapes these were the only way to experience stories all over again. Freed from the restrictions of wobbly sets, dodgy effects and underwhelming acting, we could read about earlier drafts, backstory and the internal thoughts of characters.
My favorite one are the Seventh Doctor novelisations, specifically Remembrance of the Daleks, Ghost Light and The Curse of Fenric. This was at a point where the original writers were brought on board to novelise their stories, making them richer in content than much of the Terrance Dicks ones from the middle of the range.
Another point to consider is that before Big Finish produced The Lost Stories range, the novelisations of Nightmare Fair, Ultimate Evil and Mission to Magnus were the most complete we got of the what could have been stories.
What's really nice is that you can sit down and read one in a couple of hours if you're so inclined. I whiled away a couple of train journeys with Warriors of the Deep last weekend.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2017 2:08:33 GMT
I found a whole slew of them in a secondhand bookshop when I was young, I think the very first Target novelisation I ever read was Philip Hinchcliffe's The Seeds of Doom with its virulent, carnivorous plant life, thuggish goons, geonocidal botanist and his composting method. That more than anything else stuck in my brain, I think. My twelve-year-old(?) self went way further with the imagery in prose than they ever really could on television.
Every so often I used to go in and just pick up a few here and there for about $3.00 or $5.00 a piece. Everything from The Ark to The Deadly Assassin to The Three Doctors. I have a very soft spot now for the novelisations by John Lucarotti, Ian Marter and David Whittaker. They and the late Seventh Doctor stories (which were sort of proto-NA stories) always tried to inject just that little bit more fantasy and wonder into their stories.
Earthshock's archaeological expedition enter through a cave shaped like a skull, the glass Dalek who coordinated life in the City, Ian's devilry with a penlight that defeats his opponents in Amaztec Mexico, the pseudo-cyberpunk/steampunk technology of Battlefield and it's mysterious future Doctor.
It's all terribly clever.
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