Review: Queers Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the LGBTQ Fans Who Love It

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Queers Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the LGBTQ Fans Who Love It
Queers Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the LGBTQ Fans Who Love It by Sigrid Ellis
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Most of the pieces in this collection deal with growing up with the Doctor (or Captain Jack, who features a whole lot in the first part of the book). There’s nothing wrong with writing an essay as your personal life story, but when they make up the majority of your book they all tend to … (Read more)

Review: Shada

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Doctor Who: ShadaDoctor Who: Shada by Gareth Roberts

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Three stars veering towards a fourth.

This book is a late novelization of a six-parter story that Douglas Adams wrote for Doctor Who, but which never got fully filmed because of a strike. Since then Shada has had a troubled history and nearly as many incarnations as the Doctor: bits of it were used in The five Doctors, Adams himself recycled some of his own ideas in Dirk … (Read more)

Time to rest

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Ultimamente il tema della morte e del sonno appare spesso nelle letture e nei film che mi passano davanti; o forse, più probabilmente, sono solo io che me ne accorgo di più in questo periodo.

Dato che non è bene scrivere un post per punti:

  • Sleeping in light, l’ultimo episodio regolare di Babylon 5 non contando i film, è di una poesia sorprendente, segno che se si vuole si può ancora fare della buona fantascienza televisiva
  • The machinist (L’uomo
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