New TARGET books!
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doctorwhonews.net reports that the old Target books are getting reprints soo. Also, very excitingly ...
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BBC Books have announced that they are to publish a novelisation of the "lost" Doctor Who serial Shada.
Shada retells an adventure that never made it to the screen. Production of the planned finale to the 1979-1980 season of Doctor Who was halted part-way through due to industrial action at the BBC, and the story was never completed. Now, drawing on drafts of the script and production notes as well as original designs and the material that was completed, prolific Doctor Who TV script writer Gareth Roberts tells this unique story, featuring Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor, in full for the first time.
Published with the full support of the Estate of Douglas Adams and Adams' agent Ed Victor at Ed Victor Ltd, Shada will be the first ever novelisation of Douglas Adams’s work on Doctor Who.
The book will be published by BBC Books in March 2012 as a £16.99 hardback.
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BBC Books have announced that they are to publish a novelisation of the "lost" Doctor Who serial Shada.
Shada retells an adventure that never made it to the screen. Production of the planned finale to the 1979-1980 season of Doctor Who was halted part-way through due to industrial action at the BBC, and the story was never completed. Now, drawing on drafts of the script and production notes as well as original designs and the material that was completed, prolific Doctor Who TV script writer Gareth Roberts tells this unique story, featuring Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor, in full for the first time.
Published with the full support of the Estate of Douglas Adams and Adams' agent Ed Victor at Ed Victor Ltd, Shada will be the first ever novelisation of Douglas Adams’s work on Doctor Who.
The book will be published by BBC Books in March 2012 as a £16.99 hardback.
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I'm really excited about that. Do you know what order they will be released in? (Target Books)
I may be wrong but I think the first six are due in July. Amazon have them listed for £3.26 - I've not checked if they're the cheapest but that's a nice price.
RTD doing Auton invasion (Spearhead from Space) intro.
I have all of the Target books in a box in the attic, and they're precious, precious things. £3.26 is a gobsmackingly good price!
I also have all the books in the loft and I'm sure they're mostly first editions. The ones coming out in July seem to be the releases from back in the early 70's? I remember buying Troughton's Cybermen for about 40p!
Brings back great memories of keeping a look out in the bookshops for new releases!
Funny thing is, only a couple of nights ago I did some research on the internet, found and downloaded PDF copies of the New Zealand fanclub versions of the 'missing' 5 books - Shada, City of Death, Pirate Planet Resuurection of The Daleks and Revelation of The Daleks.:)
Oh nostalgia!:D
If you bought a Target Doctor Who novelisation for 80p in 1973 (first one published), then the equivalent cost now would be £7.77!
Ooh. URL please.
OK will do!
Eighty pence? I'm not sure that they were that price in '73.
I had four Target books in quick succession (Time Warrior, Tomb of the Cybermen, Revenge of the Cybermen, and The Tenth Planet) and I am certain that they were retailing at 60 pence or 65 pence circa 1979, but were older stock; i.e. sitting on the newsagent's shelf for a number of years.
(God, I used love raking around in that shop to find forgotten treasures!
Well, that would make it £4.20 now - so they are still cheaper, equivalently. So it's plus for us, yay!
It was about ten years before I saw The Masque of Mandragora, and I was surprised to find the title was not pronounced The Maskway of Mandrer-GOR-a. Oh happy, innocent days ...
He also said the plans are to re-release them all.
The books look great, bringing back a lot of memories reading these again.
I read them a lot in the '70s. My only 'memories' of the Troughton and Hartnell stories are from the books - I agree that imagining the stories gives a better experiance than watching the tv versions from back then. I can't think the Zarbi or Yeti were as realistic on screen as my 9 year old imagination had them:D
Sadly the books all went sometime in my Teens - probably when I went to Uni:( Pity - I'd re-read them now I'm not trying to be a 'cool kid'.:o
I liked the Targets that added ideas that weren't in the
TV versions, like the Myth Makers being narrated by
Homer (that's the Greek poet, not Bart's Dad
My first hardback (which I was given by the kind staff at WH Allen) was Invisible Enemy.
I remember getting the Target catalogues in advance to see the cover artwork then subsequently actually getting lots of the dummy book jackets.
Book I am proudest of finding: brand new hardback of the Cave Monsters, with green dust jacket. Still have it!
In the age pre-video, it was rereading the books which actually fixed stories in your head and so when a good book was written of a bad story ones memories were distorted.
I also remember reading the book of Destiny of the Daleks in the stockroom of a bookseller before it was officially published or the TV series was over!
There is a new book by Dan Abnett coming out at Christmas with the Doctor versus the Ice Warriors which seems to be independent of the main range, Stephen Baxter has a second Doctor book coming out next year and there is talk of Neil Gaiman writing a novelisation of The Doctor's Wife.
Also the BBC seem to be re-releasing some of the Eighth Doctor books. Amazon have about 8 Lance Parkin or Kate Orman books listed for a August release.
The Tenth Planet by Gerry Davis (intro by Tom McRae)
The Ice Warriors by Brian Hayles (intro by Mark Gatiss)
Day Of The Daleks by Terrance Dicks (intro by Gary Russell)
The Three Doctors by Terrance Dicks (intro by Alastair Reynolds)
The Ark In Space by Ian Marter (intro by Steven Moffat)
The Loch Ness Monster by Terrance Dicks (intro by Michael Moorcock)
The 6 books will be released 10th May
Just seen a load of them availible for pre-order on Amazon along with Shada which you can get now. Absolutley love TARGET to bitts, and the white covers! ah ha ha! Along with VHS from HMV etc, they were my first taste of Dr Who, growing up in the "wilderness years" Gosh that makes it sound depressing but it really isnt, one of best times of my life, picking an old wonder out, going to a second hand bookshop nearby to see if they had any. They dont sell them anymore. Dont get me wrong, so happy Who is back on air, also scared it means end of other good stuff to though. AAh well, I'm going on Amazon now to see which ones I havent got, I know I have Tenth Palnet, Ark in space, Zygons, the Ice Warriors. Hasnt the Yeti been released. I swear I used to have it but have lost it!:eek::(:cry::mad: