purplecat

A dark green boxout from The Essential Doctor Who Science and Technology Magazine. It has the headline Existential Threat. A photo of me showing a small child how to use the Lego Rovers in the top left. A circular picture of the Third Doctor being mind-programmed by BOSS is in the middle and a black and white photo of the First Doctor and Dodo in front of WOTAN is in the bottom left. The text is blurred out because I have some morals.

sir_guinglain wrote a piece for The Essential Doctor Who:Science and Technology on Artificial Intelligence in Doctor Who and he thought it might be fun to get me to provide some discussion of the actual science. As a result I got not one, but two boxouts in the article!! The Teenager is immensely impressed and B. has purchased Prosecco (though, to be fair, it takes very little to provoke B. into purchasing Prosecco).

It isn't quite appearing in Doctor Who Magazine which would be beyond awesome, but its pretty close "From the makers of Doctor Who Magazine" runs the byline. I have been mentioned in DWM before: once because I won twenty miniature plastic Daleks and twenty miniature plastic Cybermen in a competition and once because I wrote in to inform them that my logic textbook had mentioned Doctor Who, but I've never had my photo in the magazine let alone boxouts all to myself.

I believe you can purchase The Essential Doctor Who:Science and Technology in W.H.Smiths though the Lime Street Station branch did not have it when I looked (fortunately

sir_guinglain kindly managed to get me sent a complementary copy).

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sir_guinglain

I still haven't seen these! Andrew Pixley sent me a note this morning to say how much he enjoyed the boxouts in particular.

purplecat

Hopefully you will get the full thing soon. The rest of the article looks good too (I'll confess I've only skimmed the rest of the mag as yet).

Praise from Andrew Pixley is high praise indeed!