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Loading... Time, Unincorporated, Vol. 1: The Doctor Who Fanzine Archives (edition 2009)by Lance Parkin
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In Time, Unincorporated, the best essays and commentary from a range of Doctor Who fanzines are collected and here made available to a wider audience. In spirit, this series picks up the torch from Virgin's Licence Denied collection (1997), concentrating some of the most delightful, insightful and strange writings on Doctor Who into a single source. Volume 1 of this series collects 15 years of Doctor Who-related essays and articles by Lance Parkin, one of the highest-regarded Doctor Who novelists. The cornerstone of this edition is a year-by-year survey and analysis of Doctor Who that Parkin wrote for the 40th Anniversary of Doctor Who (updated to the present), as well as a myriad of Parkin's articles and columns from the fanzines Enlightenment and Matrix. Also included: Parkin's original pitch for the celebrated Doctor Who novel The Infinity Doctors (1998), his extensive advice on the art of writing and more. No library descriptions found. |
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Parkin's enthusiasm for the new show, however, is overwhelming, and justifiably so. The supplement to the 40-year overview covers some of this, as do his columns for the fanzine Enlightenment, where he tries to depict the significance of the show in Britain to his Canadian audience. It's a fascinating look at a phenomenon that we colonists only get glimpses of. Most of his columns reproduced here are quality work; I especially like his debunking of the notion that Quatermass had a strong influence on Doctor Who as well as his review of The Nth Doctor. Of especial interest are the entries from his blog about the writing of The Eyeless; I always appreciate getting insights into a novelist's process, and he has some good ones, though it feels like the blog cuts off abruptly, with the book not really all the way there and more to be said. The book closes out with his pitches for uncommissioned stories-- in most cases, I suspect we were better off without them (the Faction Paradox version of Warlords of Utopia is way better than the Doctor Who one here, and the original outline for The Infinity Doctors is awful), but I really do wish that To Hold Back Death had been commissioned; it would have washed out the taste of Escape Velocity nicely.
Overall, a smart collection of intelligent essays, well worth reading for the devoted Whovian.