purplecat: Hand Drawn picture of a Toy Cat (books)
I just went back and re-read my review of Wildthyme on Top before setting out to write this. I remembered that short story collection fondly but, on re-reading the review, I discover that I picked out two really good stories and thought the rest were fine but all a bit samey, especially since most of them were literary pastiches of one kind or another.

This collection of short stories, from new publisher Obverse Books, is a less coherent and distinctive collection and (and I fear I may lose friends here) a slightly inferior one though I think, on the whole, it is broadly comparable.

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Novelcon

Oct. 14th, 2009 08:49 am
purplecat: Hand Drawn picture of a Toy Cat (doctor who)
I'm fairly sure I haven't attended a Dr Who convention in about 20 years, but when a convention was announced dedicated to the Doctor Who novels, which was going to take place in B's favourite Manchester pub, I didn't feel I had much excuse not to go.

Novelcon, including a half-remembered Primeval anecdote in the sixth paragraph )




Who Daily HTML: <lj user=louisedennis> < a href="http://louisedennis.livejournal.com/128119.html">discusses Novelcon</a>
purplecat: Hand Drawn picture of a Toy Cat (benny)
I know I keep saying I'm going to stop buying the Bernice Summerfield books but they keep putting ones out with strong author line ups: in this case Mags L Halliday, Kelly Hale and Philip Purser-Hallard. I remain unconvinced by the three novella format. I would have welcomed more depth and complexity to each of the three stories here. But I think this is, nevertheless, the strongest Benny book I've read for a while.

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purplecat: Hand Drawn picture of a Toy Cat (doctor who)
I've been scratching my head over how to cover Time and Relative Dissertations in Space in more detail, since I wanted to talk about several of the essays but didn't really want to make 18 more posts about it. I've opted for discussing each of its four parts in turn. These are not so much reviews as comments and thoughts I had while reading the essays - some of these comments probably arise because I'm approaching them from a computer science direction (my general notes about this in my original review of the book).

How to pilot a TARDIS: audiences, science fiction and the fantastic in Doctor Who )

The child as addressee, viewer and consumer in mid-1960s Doctor Who )

'Now how is that wolf able to impersonate a grandmother?' History, pseudo-history and genre in Doctor Who )

Bargains of necessity? Doctor Who, Culloden and fictionalising history at the BBC in the 1960s )

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