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I'm Sorry, Sir, You Have No Clearance (First Frontier)
I'll Explain LaterWe skipped the largely disliked Strange England by Simon Messingham. He gets better in the BBC Books line.First Frontier, David McIntee’s second novel, mashes up American UFO myths...
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Roundsomely Layered on the Bone (Warlock)
I’ll Explain LaterWe have skipped St. Anthony’s Fire, Falls the Shadow, and Parasite, all of which are in the bottom third of New Adventures in Sullivan’s rankings.Warlock is the second part of Andrew...
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Like I Could Run Forever (Set Piece)
I’ll Explain LaterKate Orman’s second New Adventure, Set Piece, is first and foremost notable for seeing Ace’s departure to become “Time’s Vigilante” and patrol a two hundred year period of Earth’s...
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Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 43 (Independence Day, Sliders,...
I’ve been batting around the phrase “cult television” for a while, but have managed so far to avoid talking about it in any depth or detail. I mean, we did Star Trek: The Next Generation, but the whole...
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Your Researches Have So Little Regard for Human Life (Sanctuary)
I’ll Explain LaterWe’ve skipped Infinite Requiem by Daniel Blythe. If one were to make a list of the most skippable novels in the New Adventures line, it would easily make the top ten.Sanctuary, David...
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Has it Taught You Wonderful Things? (Human Nature)
I’ll Explain LaterHuman Nature is possibly the New Adventure needing the least introduction: it’s the book from which Paul Cornell’s two-parter in Series Three is adapted. As one might expect, it’s...
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Time Can Be Rewritten 33 (Continuity Errors)
Back in the dark days of the wilderness years, when I mistakenly thought I had either talent or inclination to write fiction, I had a fiction teacher who cautioned me off of being clever. Cleverness,...
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Eighth Doctor Adventures/Big Finish Draft List for Discussion
Since we're about to enter what can fairly be called the end game of the New Adventures, I figure it's a reasonable time to start the discussion of how things are going to go for the next phase of...
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I'm Not Paid to Have Opinions, Sir (Original Sin)
I'll Explain LaterOriginal Sin, by Andy Lane, introduces Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej, the final two original companions of the Virgin line. It serves as a semi-sequel to Lucifer Rising, in that it...
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Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 44 (Red Dwarf, Discworld)
Oh, come now, did you all really think I wasn’t going to cover these two? What’s next, being surprised by the Queer as Folk post? It was just a matter of timing. And with Sky Pirates! Coming on...
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He's Slipped in the Bilge Water (Sky Pirates!)
I’ll Explain LaterSky Pirates!, Dave Stone’s first New Adventure, is a novel in the comedic sci-fi style of Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams, albeit with a bit of a dark tinge. It’s not hugely popular....
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What More Could A Renegade Wish For? (Head Games)
I’ll Explain LaterWe’ve skipped the perfectly serviceable Zamper and Toy Soldiers. Head Games is a doozy - the sequel to Conundrum as well as part of a paired release alongside the Missing Adventure...
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The Greatest Specialist in Time-Space Exploration (The Also People)
I’ll Explain LaterThe Also People is Ben Aaronovitch’s second New Adventure, and features a murder mystery in a utopian technologically advanced society modeled on the works of Iain M. Banks. It also...
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Outside the Government 5 (Downtime/The Airzone Solution)
Part of the story of Doctor Who’s return is the story of a generation of fans steadily establishing themselves in the television industry and, to varying extents, remaking it in their own image. From a...
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Some Planet Called America (Warchild)
I’ll Explain LaterWe’ve skipped Shakedown, Terrance Dicks’s novelization of his direct-to-video project with added framing story featuring the Doctor, and Just War, which is absolutely phenomenal and...
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Let Your Mind Wander When You're Handing It Over (SLEEPY)
I’ll Explain LaterKate Orman’s SLEEPY is the book that actually kicks off the Psi-Powers series in any meaningful sense. Which is still not all that meaningful, as the Psi-Powers arc is infamous for...
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Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 45 (Babylon 5)
There is a moment familiar to everyone who has ever enjoyed Babylon 5 in which they make the cataclysmically dumb mistake of trying to get someone else to watch it. It goes like this: “It’s a huge...
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Time Can Be Rewritten 33 (Happy Endings)
Technically, actually, everything until Boxing Day should either be a Pop Between Realities or a Time Can Be Rewritten post, but we’re not going to do that. Still, it’s worth starting by making this...
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The First Settlers Called it the Crystal Feast (Christmas on a Rational Planet)
Speaking of Christmas, and the general season of gift-giving it implies, have you considered just how much all of your friends and family want copies of the first two volumes of TARDIS Eruditorum in...
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Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 46 (Our Friends in the North)
We’ve alluded a couple of times to the changing nature of the BBC in the late 1980s and early 1990s. If you start from 1984, when Michael Grade took over at BBC1, and go to 1995 there are only two...
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