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Doctor Who is not just one of the world's longest-running science fiction TV shows, but it's also generated a prolific amount of tie-in books, often with strong literary merit. Join Jason from the Trap One Podcast on a solo journey through the Target novelizations, in publication order.

Doctor Who Literature Jason Miller

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Doctor Who is not just one of the world's longest-running science fiction TV shows, but it's also generated a prolific amount of tie-in books, often with strong literary merit. Join Jason from the Trap One Podcast on a solo journey through the Target novelizations, in publication order.

    Episode 112 - Black Orchid (with Steven B. from New to Who); Boom

    Episode 112 - Black Orchid (with Steven B. from New to Who); Boom

    For this week we are going back to the Jazz Age, with Doctor Who-specific musical accompaniment by Jim Sangster.

    Our Doctor Who Literature guest this week is Steven B., who you can find at the New To Who podcast, The Three-Handed Game: An Avengers Podcast, and Reimagining Doctor Who.

    Among several other Doctor Who podcast episodes cited in this week's episode, you can find:

    --Steven B.'s appearance on The Library of Impossible Things;

    --Jason's Black Orchid appearance on the Doctor Who Target Book Club Podcast; and

    --Jason's appearance on A Kettle and some String;

    And please enjoy the following two linked articles, both relevant to this week's DWLit episode:

    --James Cooray Smith discusses Paradise Towers and the casting of Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor; and

    --A Nerdist interview with Steven Moffat on the writing of the newest Doctor Who episode at the time that this episode was released: Boom.

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    "Doctor Who – Black Orchid" features cover art by Tony Masero.

    Doctor Who Literature is a member of the Direction Point Doctor Who podcast network.

    Please e-mail the pod at DrWhoLiterature@gmail.com.

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    Episode 111A -- Slipback (with Keith Say); Space Babies & The Devil's Chord

    Episode 111A -- Slipback (with Keith Say); Space Babies & The Devil's Chord

    Please give a warm Doctor Who Literature welcome to Keith Say, a first-time guest here but a long-time guest on Trap One.

    One of the two of us really enjoyed the novelization of Slipback, the first radio-only episode of Doctor Who.

    The other one of us hated this book. Hated, hated, hated this book. Calling to mind one particular review by the great Roger Ebert.

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    "Doctor Who – Slipback" features cover art by Paul Mark Tams.

    Doctor Who Literature is a member of the Direction
    Point Doctor Who podcast network.

    Please e-mail the pod at DrWhoLiterature@gmail.com.

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    DWLit Presents: The Star Beast (with Gary Russell); The Doctor Who Subway Train

    DWLit Presents: The Star Beast (with Gary Russell); The Doctor Who Subway Train

    Doctor Who Literature presents:

    This week, as we are in between the 1986 and 1987 slates of Doctor Who novelizations, please enjoy this following bonus content, all recorded live:

    --Jason and Callie explore the Doctor Who-branded subway car in New York City.

    --Gary Russell sat down with Jason at Gallifrey One in Los Angeles in February to discuss his novelization of The Star Beast.

    --Jason speaks with Dale Santos in the Gally dealer's room.

    --David Barksy, Mark McManus (from Trap One), Bill Evenson (from The Frankenstein Minute), and Stacey Smith?, discuss Gally One, and there's a new round of limericks.

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    Episode 111 - The Seeds of Death (with Mark from Trap One -- LIVE)

    Episode 111 - The Seeds of Death (with Mark from Trap One -- LIVE)

    It's late April 2024, but Doctor Who Literature takes us back to mid-February, and to the Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles, where Mark from the Trap One Podcast joined me over dinner for a My Dinner With Andre-style conversation about the 1969 Doctor Who serial The Seeds of Death, and its 1986 novelization by Terrance Dicks.

    You can view My Dinner With Andre in full here.

    The Proclaimers appeared on Late Night With David Letterman in March 1989.

    Big Blue Marble was a long-running 1970s/'80s PBS series produced in part by Rick Berman (yes, that Rick Berman). You can view an episode here. The opening theme (sampled in this episode) features lyrics by Berman, music by Paul Baillargeon, and vocals by Whitney Kershaw.

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    "Doctor Who – The Seeds of Death" features cover art by Tony Masero.

    Doctor Who Literature is a member of the Direction Point Doctor Who podcast network.

    Please e-mail the pod at DrWhoLiterature@gmail.com.

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    Episode 110A -- Find Your Fate: Mission to Venus (with Tony Whitt)

    Episode 110A -- Find Your Fate: Mission to Venus (with Tony Whitt)

    This week Doctor Who Literature is NOT covering a Target book. 1986 was a bumper year for Doctor Who fiction, and, in the States, Ballantine Books got in on the action with both the man in the blue box, AND the still going-strong Choose Your Own Adventure craze, with a series of six books in the Find Your Fate series.

    Joining me to read through -- and play -- this book is my old friend Tony Whitt of the Doctor Who Target Book Club Podcast, without which this show might not exist. Tony never holds back on his opinions, and we both have a lot to say. And not just about Doctor Who.

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    "Find Your Fate... Doctor Who: Mission to Venus" features cover art by Romas Kukalis.

    Doctor Who Literature is a member of the Direction Point Doctor Who podcast network.

    Please e-mail the pod at DrWhoLiterature@gmail.com.You can catch all past episodes at
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    Episode 110 Part I -- The Celestial Toymaker (with James Goss)

    Episode 110 Part I -- The Celestial Toymaker (with James Goss)

    Welcome to the first of two planned episodes about the 1966 Doctor Who serial The Celestial Toymaker. The episode eventually spawned a TV sequel ... in 2023, The Giggle. The novelizations of both stories were released in 1986 and 2024 respectively.

    Joining me this week is James Goss, author of the Giggle novelization, and we spend about 90 joyous minutes talking about both books.

    Links to other podcasts or posts or websites discussed today:

    --James Goss recently appeared on Trap One.

    --Shannon Patrick Sullivan's A Brief History of Time (Travel).

    --James Cooray Smith's Psychic Paper looks at Trial of a Time Lord.

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    "Doctor Who – The Celestial Toymaker" features cover art by Graham Potts.

    Doctor Who Literature is a member of the Direction Point Doctor Who podcast network.

    Please e-mail the pod at DrWhoLiterature@gmail.com

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