Doctor Who: A Time Lord For Change: in an Exciting Adventure with the Drabbles by Barnaby Eaton-Jones


Doctor Who: A Time Lord For Change: in an Exciting Adventure with the Drabbles
Title : Doctor Who: A Time Lord For Change: in an Exciting Adventure with the Drabbles
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ISBN : 1540336123
ISBN-10 : 9781540336125
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 190
Publication : First published November 14, 2016

A Time Lord for Change is a brand-new charity anthology that takes every single television Doctor Who story from 1963-2015 (from 'An Unearthly Child' to 'The Husbands of River Song') - covering all the Doctors, companions, adventures, and enemies - and responds to them re-imagines and re-interprets them as drabbles: stories, poems, letters, songs, vignettes and memoirs of exactly 100 words in length, no more, no less. And this book contains over 270 of them! Chinbeard Books - donating to mental health charity Mind - offers every fan of TV's Time Lord a new opportunity to take the Doctor's hand and step aboard the TARDIS to discover a whole new world of Doctor Who previously unseen, a world that's sometimes frightening, sometimes silly, sometimes irreverent and sometimes deliciously analytical; a world which features: The Twelfth Doctor choosing weapons and revealing more empathy cards; River Song telling us why she loves each Doctor; a trip behind the scenes with the Curator; the musings of a cat that likes kidney; the thoughts of a horse called Susan; Dalek/human parallels; another death for Rory; Monty Python's 'The Rings of Akhaten'; a 10-year-old re-watching a Christmas special; John Lumic stealing his big idea; what we might have had if we didn't have 'Blink'; the truth about that thing on Midnight; Donna's school report; what else got loose from Van Statten's collection; Adam's clever solution; the death-birth of Good Wolf; the War Doctor's many names; the Eighth Doctor's visit to HG Wells; a chance to save someone for old times' sake; Andrew Cartmel's Season 27; Kroagnon's other faux pas; the Master at the shops; the Sixth Doctor's final moments; the mind of a multi-coloured coat; what Chessene did next; Sil's involvement in Tranquil Repose; how the Earth's new name was chosen; Ibbotson on Facebook; the inter-galactic shipping forecast; the truth about Morgus; Sarah's kleptomania; Jano and the Sevateem; the famous Giant Prawn; the lie they told Adric; the Tenth Doctor at the Gateway; how the Daleks saved a child from depression; life on Dust or death on Earth for the Third Doctor; Zaroff's fishy secret; Ian Hendry as the leader of the Dominators; the creation of the Karkus; the Second Doctor's golden birth; the secret struggle of Sensorite women; how the Time War started; and the First Doctor's death amongst the Aztecs. All of that - and a lot more besides...

Doctor Who: A Time Lord For Change: in an Exciting Adventure with the Drabbles Reviews

  • Alex Sarll

    100 words plus title for each televised Who story up to Capaldi's first good one (plus a few extras). Pro Who writers and stars of the show (including a Doctor and a Davros) rub shoulders with fans, no category having a noticeably better or worse hit rate than any other. The brevity of the form obviously tends to favour certain approaches – the poetic, the squib, the deleted scene – with those who nevertheless try to reprise the whole story in brief, or else review it directly, generally coming off worst. Often, the least promising stories can make for the best responses; ’The Beast Below’ by way of Samuel Beckett and Monty Python’s ‘Rings of Akhaten’ are both far better than the originals, and not just because they’re shorter.

  • Somesuchlike

    Unfortunately, I didn’t love A Time Lord for Change as much as I expected to. My interest in Doctor Who is more in its characters than it’s stories; I’m a fanfiction person and while this anthology is definitely a transformative work created by fans I don’t know if it’s fanfiction as I’d define it!

    The drabbles are concerned more with the narratives and themes of individual Doctor Who serials and that’s not especially interesting to me. However, they are for the most part very strong. And the big upside of a drabble anthology is that when you don’t enjoy a piece, it’s over very quickly.

    It also does require a quite extensive knowledge of classic who – there’s one drabble for every serial and all of them will make sense only if you’ve seen the serial. Definitely a novella for the hardcore fans, which is a niche market. But if that’s you, definitely check it out – it’s an interesting read and for a good cause.