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31 January 2025

What Is a Dalek?: Nicholas Briggs's Dalek Empire, Series One and Two (2001–03)

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Back before Big Finish became a Doctor Who content machine, spin-offs were a rare thing indeed. The very first of them came in 2001, a four...
29 January 2025

The Fourth Doctor Novelisations: The Talons of Weng-Chiang (1977) and The Horror of Fang Rock (1978)

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People tend to lump Terrance Dicks novelisations into three periods, is my understanding: his early period, where the idea of a Doctor Who ...
28 January 2025

Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son, Nos. XIII–XIV (Chs. 39-45)

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No. XIII (chs. 39-41) Towards his first wife, Mr Dombey, in his cold and lofty arrogance, had borne himself like the removed Being he almost...
27 January 2025

Black Panther: Klaws of the Panther by Jonathan Maberry, Gianluca Gugliotta, et al.

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In Doomwar , T'Challa destroyed all Wakandan vibranium worldwide in order to prevent Doctor Doom from using it for nefarious purposes. O...
24 January 2025

Star Trek Adventures: Playing "The Siege of Starbase Epsilon-12"... on Christmas!

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This summer, when I was running my Star Trek Adventures campaign, I was also watching season two of Strange New Worlds . (Me to my wife: ...
22 January 2025

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

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Every year, I participate in LibraryThing's Secret Santa program, "SantaThing." Members who pay in are matched with other memb...
21 January 2025

Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son, Nos. XI–XII (Chs. 32-38)

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No. XI (chs. 32-34) It’s entered on the ship’s log, and that’s the truest book as a man can write. (505) As I had kind of predicted, after ...
20 January 2025

The Fourth Doctor Novelisations: The Ark in Space (1977)

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This isn't the first novelisation of a fourth Doctor story to be written by someone other than Terrance Dicks (that would be 1977's ...
17 January 2025

Reading Toto of Oz Aloud to My Kid

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Gina Wickwar's second Oz book following The Hidden Prince of Oz is also the last one published by the International Wizard of Oz Club. ...
15 January 2025

Captain America / Black Panther: Flags of Our Fathers by Reginald Hudlin, Denys Cowan, Klaus Janson, et al.

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Once again, I went into a Black Panther miniseries with low expectations, and once again, I was pleasantly surprised . Captain America / Bla...