Hello, Sweetie! A whole crossword dedicated to yours truly… I keep meeting with Him Indoors in the wrong order, so perhaps a crossword is the only way to make sense of our lives. Or perhaps a flowchart? I keep a handy little diary myself, but he’s had so many faces, I need the spotter’s guide. However, this crossword is about me, not him. Within these clues, you will find references to people, places, and monsters Read more…
For me, the Eleventh Doctor can be grouped together with the Second and Seventh Doctors as a particular side of his personality – a scruffy little academic who is much cleverer than he lets on. In fact, he’s a genius. I loved the Eleventh Doctor as he really embodied that Target Books description of being old and young at the same time. It’s hard to believe that the Eleventh Doctor era is so long ago Read more…
The thing about mad scientists in Doctor Who is that they have a habit of unleashing all kinds of nasties on the world. Some are cast-offs and some are everything they hoped for. From Daleks to Vervoids, the Whoniverse is full of unintended – and fully intended – scientific consequences. Most of the time, this spells danger for anyone who happens to be nearby at the time. This week, we are writing up those weird Read more…
Speaking as a (social) scientist myself, it always strikes me as obvious how the Whoniverse is completely devoid of ethics in science. Trust me, in our universe, ethical science is a very big thing, and ethics applications take a long time. Not so for our favourite mad scientists – and thank goodness really, or we’d never have had had the Daleks, Cybermen, Vervoids, killer robots… red tape is a lot less exciting than being shot Read more…
SPOILERS, SWEETIE! Do spoilers apply to decades-old books? In this quick crossword, you will find friendly and not-so-friendly faces encountered by the Doctor during The New Adventures era. Don’t worry if your memory is a little hazy as many of them are friends and foes who originated on TV. Doctor Who does so love its returning characters. One question remains – is it pronounced Cwej… or Cwej? – Code Nine x
Picture it! Sicily, 1912! No, not really. It’s 1990 and Doctor Who is being “rested”, ushering in what is now known as The Wilderness Years. This is a title I would dispute because those long years off the television allowed Doctor Who to venture into new territories, never more so than in the Virgin New Adventures book range, which continued the Seventh Doctor’s adventures far into the future. They were a lifeline back then, but Read more…
