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James Goss

Author of Almost Perfect

137+ Works 3,706 Members 159 Reviews

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Works by James Goss

Almost Perfect (2008) 314 copies
Dead of Winter (2011) 240 copies
City of Death (2015) 229 copies
Risk Assessment (2009) 214 copies
The Shakespeare Notebooks (2014) 212 copies
The Blood Cell (2014) 179 copies
Scratchman (2019) — Ghostwriter — 174 copies
Summer Falls (2013) — Author — 108 copies
Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen (2018) — Author — 103 copies
Dead Air (2010) 96 copies
First Born (2011) 93 copies
Doctor Who: The Dalek Handbook (2011) — Author — 87 copies
Doctor Who: City of Death (2018) 49 copies
The Hounds of Artemis (2010) 40 copies
Torchwood: Golden Age (2009) 36 copies
Being Human: Bad Blood (2010) 32 copies
Fall to Earth (2015) — Author — 26 copies
Death and the Queen (2016) — Author — 23 copies
The Torchwood Archive (2016) — Author — 23 copies
Torchwood: Department X (2011) 23 copies
The Art of Death (2012) 22 copies
Torchwood: Ghost Train (2011) 22 copies
The Time Museum (2012) 21 copies
The Scorchies (2013) 19 copies
Haterz (2015) 19 copies
Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures, Volume One (2016) — Author; Author — 17 copies
Ghost Mission (2016) — Author — 17 copies
Doctor Who: The Giggle (2023) 16 copies
The Last Post (2012) 16 copies
Torchwood: The Lost Files (2011) 16 copies
Corpse Day (2017) — Author — 16 copies
The Lives of Captain Jack (Doctor Who) (2017) — Author — 16 copies
Mask of Tragedy (2014) — Author — 15 copies
The Office of Never Was (2017) — Author — 15 copies
The Diary of River Song: Series Seven (2020) — Author — 15 copies
The Gods of Winter (2015) 12 copies
The Sins of Winter (2015) 12 copies
The Lives of Captain Jack, Volume Two (2019) — Author — 11 copies
The War Master: The Master of Callous (2018) — Author — 11 copies
No Place (2019) — Author — 10 copies
Goodbye Picadilly (2018) — Author — 10 copies
Torchwood: Aliens Among Us 1 (2017) — Author — 10 copies
Donna Noble: Kidnapped! (2020) 9 copies
Instant Karma (2018) — Author — 9 copies
Deadbeat Escape (2018) — Author — 8 copies
Smashed (2019) 8 copies
Torchwood: Aliens Among Us 3 (2018) — Producer; Contributor — 8 copies
The Silent Scream (2017) — Author — 8 copies
Ghost Walk (2018) — Author — 7 copies
The Hope (2019) — Author — 7 copies
The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield: The Unbound Universe (2016) — Script Editor; Contributor — 7 copies
Missy Series 3: Missy and the Monk (2021) — Author — 7 copies
Masterful (2021) — Author — 7 copies
Lady Christina (2018) — Author — 7 copies
Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Chronicles (2018) — Author — 7 copies
Red Base (2020) — Author — 6 copies
Bernice Summerfield: The Story So Far, Volume One (2018) — Script Editor; Contributor — 6 copies
Torchwood: God Among Us 3 (2019) — Author — 6 copies
Torchwood: God Among Us 1 (2018) — Author — 6 copies
Gooseberry (2021) — Director — 5 copies
Blood and Sand (2013) 4 copies
Lady Christina: Series 2 (2021) — Author — 4 copies
Fortitude (2020) — Author — 4 copies
Torchwood: The Red List (2022) 4 copies
Coffee (2021) — Author — 4 copies
Three Monkeys (2020) — Author — 4 copies
Once and Future: The Artist at the End of Time (2023) — Author — 3 copies
Death in Venice (2022) — Author — 3 copies
Empire of Shadows (2021) — Author — 3 copies
Torchwood One: Nightmares (2022) — Author — 3 copies
Torchwood: 54: Curios (2021) 2 copies
Oodunnit (2024) — Author — 2 copies
Madam I'm (2021) 2 copies
Rogue Encounters (2024) — Author — 1 copy

Associated Works

Summer Falls and Other Stories (2013) — Contributor — 168 copies
The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who (2015) — Contributor — 122 copies
Doctor Who: The Brilliant Book 2012 (2011) — Contributor — 91 copies
The Diary of River Song: Series One (2016) — Author — 43 copies
Time Lord Victorious: Defender of the Daleks (2020) — Story — 39 copies
Short Trips: Snapshots (2007) — Contributor — 38 copies
The Diary of River Song: Series Two (2017) — Author — 26 copies
Doctor Who: Classic Doctors New Monsters, Volume One (2016) — Contributor — 24 copies
Short Trips: Indefinable Magic (2009) — Contributor — 22 copies
Doctor Who: The Legacy of Time (2019) — Contributor — 20 copies
Technophobia (2016) — Script Editor — 20 copies
The War Master: Only the Good (2018) — Contributor — 14 copies
Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Chronicles (2017) — Author — 14 copies
Doctor Who and the Library of Time (2021) — Contributor — 13 copies
Torchwood Archives Volume 2 (2017) — Author — 12 copies
Jago & Litefoot: Series Seven (2014) — Contributor — 10 copies
Gallifrey VI (2013) — Contributor — 10 copies
Jago & Litefoot: Series Eight (2014) — Contributor — 9 copies
Counter Measures: Series 2 (2013) — Contributor — 9 copies
Iris Wildthyme: Wildthyme Reloaded (2015) — Contributor — 6 copies
Jago & Litefoot: Series Ten (2015) — Contributor — 6 copies
Bernice Summerfield: Missing Persons (2013) — Contributor — 6 copies
In Time (2018) — Contributor — 5 copies
Vienna: Series Two (2015) — Contributor — 3 copies
Torchwood: Among Us Part 1 (2023) — Author, some editions — 2 copies
Torchwood: Among Us Part 3 — Author, some editions — 1 copy
Torchwood: Among Us Part 2 — Author, some editions — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate
1974
Gender
male
Nationality
UK
Places of residence
London, England, UK
Education
Oxford University (BA|English Literature)
Occupations
writer
editor
producer

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Reviews

https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-fourteenth-doctor-novelisations-the-star-bea....

It’s no secret that I rate James Goss as one of the best Doctor Who writers currently in business (eg here, here and here), so I awaited his novelisation of The Giggle with eager anticipation.

I have to say that my high expectations were more than exceeded. Goss tells the story from the perspective of the Toymaker (first-person Doctor Who books are very rare and not always successful), smooths off the edges, throws in some extra pinches of emotion and also some shifts of genre and format – at one point the book becomes a choose-your-own-adventure for Donna, and there are other puzzles throughout. I suspect that the paper version will be even nicer and it’s the only one of the three that I plan to get in hard copy. It’s a real tour de force.
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nwhyte | Jan 7, 2024 |
I'm giving this a 2.5 The narration was great, and most of the story was interesting but overall it just didn't strike me as much as some of the others. Kai Owen should be used more!
 
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Kiri | 2 other reviews | Dec 24, 2023 |
Good book, though as we all know by now, viruses mutate more when they are actually spreading, not when they lack hosts to spread through.
 
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JBarringer | 22 other reviews | Dec 15, 2023 |
As a longterm Doctor Who fan who enjoyed Tom Baker's stories until the later ones which became rather hammy I was keen to read this. At first, it was interesting, and it was charming to see Harry Sullivan and Sarah Jane Smith accompanying the Doctor on a visit to a remote island with a beseiged community. Sinister scarecrows are stalking the island and, it seems, turning people into scarecrows like themselves. The story is told in a framing structure, where the Doctor is having to defend himself against the Time Lords accusations as he is on trial, something that cropped up a few times in the series and was here, I thought, a bit unnecessary and irritating.

In the second half of the book, where the Doctor confronts the force behind the happenings on the island, a thing that labels itself Scratchman (Old Scratch being a name for the Devil), things become rather more fantastical, taking place in a nightmarish world. I found this dragged a bit. There is a nod to the current Doctor who makes a couple of cameo appearances.

I believe the core of this story was an idea that Tom Baker and Ian Marter, who played Harry, had discussed in the 1970s as a possible film idea. The book is dedicated to Marter who died tragically young, though not to Elizabeth Sladen who also sadly died more recently. It appears to have been ghost written or maybe co-written with someone called James Goss. It is competently written but I found the whole fantasyland aspect rather over extended and it became a bit boring. The first half I could quite envisage being a Doctor Who story of the time. One irritation was the non grammatical use of 'sat' instead of 'sitting', as in "I was sat....".

One aspect that did not work for me was the omniscience of the Doctor who could describe in detail, including dialogue, what was happening to his companions when he wasn't present. This was necessitated by the clunky trial frame - if it had just been written in third person this would not have been necessary. I also don't think the first person narrative of the Doctor himself quite works: by necessity it can't be as alien as the Doctor really should be and makes him just seem human. So given these reservations, I can only award it an OK 2 stars.
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Statistics

Works
137
Also by
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Members
3,706
Popularity
#6,841
Rating
3.8
Reviews
159
ISBNs
242
Languages
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