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I can't quite put my finger on what it was about Timewyrm:Revelation, Paul Cornell's first novel, that was so exciting, because I can completely understand the criticism that it is basically too wierd. But I think it was the first time official Doctor Who canon (even if this is a branch of canon that has since been side-lined) served up something that was from a fan of the show being explicitly fannish about the show.

I'm inclined to say this was the moment that the inmates began to take over the asylum. Although arguably that happened in 1988 when John Freeman took over DWM.

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Date: 2016-10-30 03:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daniel-saunders.livejournal.com
Agreed that Aaronovitch wasn't a fan at that stage, although he had a steep learning curve, but IIRC, the idea of a Dalek Emperor that looked like the one from the TV Century 21 comics that splits open to reveal Davros came from SFX man and card-carrying fan Mike Tucker (one of the relatively few people to work on both 20th and 21st century TV Who).

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