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Jan. 4th, 2007 01:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
To help with my Big Finish Benny novella, All Mimsy Were the Borogoves, I'm re-reading my 1996 Doctor Who novel Return of the Living Dad. There's too much repetition, too many in-jokes, too many characters, and far too many POV shifts, but the prose is generally holding up all right. There are certain similarities with the new show: the emphasis on relationships, the self-awareness - and it's tempting to think that the NAs influenced RTD's thinking, but I suspect that more than anything both books and show are products of their times.
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Date: 2007-01-04 03:02 am (UTC)As I recall, that's the one where the soldier called Tiller puts Chris Cwej in a headlock. :-). You really made this fangrrl's day with that one.
(Has it really been 10 years since it was published? Wow. It doesn't seem that long, and yet when I think about it, so much has happened since then...).
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Date: 2007-01-04 04:08 am (UTC)I enjoyed RotLD (looks like someone made a typo for Lord of the Rings, doesn't it?), but it's not my favourite of your books. Like most artists whose work I enjoy, you've only become better over time. Man, now I realise I still haven't read two of your books... I'd better get on to that as soon as I finish The Loved One. One of the locla libraries'll have 'em, no doubt.
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Date: 2007-01-04 05:45 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-01-07 09:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-04 08:00 am (UTC)Are you doing anything for Craig Hinton's anthology?
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Date: 2007-01-04 08:02 am (UTC)Tell me more about this antho.
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Date: 2007-01-04 09:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-05 02:41 am (UTC)Details are in my own LJ, and I cross-postd to a few of the LJ groups, but I stopped short of mentioning it to every Who writer I had a link to.
Its at http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_fanthology/ and the deadline is just for title, indicative word-count, one-paragraph pitch and some context about the story or the author link to Craig/his writing.
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Date: 2007-01-08 06:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-08 01:44 pm (UTC)The editors are myself, David McIntee and Jay Eales.
If you can forward a 1 paragraph description plus title plus wordcount (2000 is fine) to jptales@gmail.com, we'll confirm in the next few days.
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Date: 2007-01-04 12:36 pm (UTC)Only realised recently, some of my best experiences of Who have been through the books, both Target and NA. But I love the new series, and I do really believe it owes a lot to the books. I think most importantly, the NA's cut through to some of the core ideas and themes of the TV series, and then either explored them or played with them. RTD's reinvention avoids referring back to an individual era of the TV show, but builds its characters and story arcs out of aspects of the show that have come to be taken as read. The Paul McGann failed-comeback does the opposite. I really believe RTD's understanding of the series (as something passionate, moving, about loneliness and alienness) comes out of the work done by the NA's.
What a loooong comment! I am sorry.
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Date: 2007-01-07 09:26 am (UTC)I had to stop reading it for a bit to recover from the endless character POV switches. Every time I start a scene, I start in media res with a different character, so I must spend half the bloody word count trying to explain what the heck is going on.