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The Laughing Gnome: Fear of the Web
Written by Alyson Leeds
Cover by Martin Baines


Dame Anne Bishop learned a long time ago that for every fixed point in time, this a fracture point, an event that is susceptible to catastrophic changes in the timeline. And when she is catapulted back in time, she discovers first hand that February 1969 is one such point.

Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart is on manoeuvres with the Scots Guards in Libya. Only, he’s about to receive a call from his old commanding officer, Colonel Spencer Pemberton. A call that will drag him to London, and set him on a direct course for destiny!

The London Event, the trap set for the Doctor by the Great Intelligence, changed the course of human history, and for Anne Travers it set into place a series of events that would see the death of her father barely a year later.

Now, waking up in the body of a woman she barely knows, Dame Anne is faced with the idea that perhaps she can change things – not enough to damage the timeline, but enough to save her father.

Future and past are set to collide, which could have irrevocable consequences for the timeline...
 
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What are you afraid of?

In his first-ever Doctor Who novel, Tom Baker’s incredible imagination is given free rein. A story so epic it was originally intended for the big screen, Scratchman is a gripping, white-knuckle thriller almost forty years in the making.

The Doctor, Harry and Sarah Jane Smith arrive at a remote Scottish island, when their holiday is cut short by the appearance of strange creatures – hideous scarecrows, who are preying on the local population. The islanders are living in fear, and the Doctor vows to save them all. But it doesn’t go to plan – the time travellers have fallen into a trap, and Scratchman is coming for them.

With the fate of the universe hanging in the balance, the Doctor must battle an ancient force from another dimension, one who claims to be the Devil. Scratchman wants to know what the Doctor is most afraid of. And the Doctor’s worst nightmares are coming out to play…


Product details
  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: BBC Books (24 Jan. 2019)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1785943901
  • ISBN-13: 978-1785943904
  • Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 22.9 cm
 
Doctor Omega

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Yes Folks, Tom Baker’s Doctor Who Fought Alongside Captain Kirk


https://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/0...ers-doctor-who-fought-alongside-captain-kirk/


It was seen by some as a hoax. A cover unrepresentative of its interior. A variant cover even, showing a kind of “what if”? But in this week’s Star Trek/Doctor Who: Insurrection Squared, we got a flashback to Tom Baker fighting alongside the crew of the classic Star Trek crew against the older styled Cybermen.
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The cover to Star Trek: Doctor Who/Assimilation Squared #3 featuring Captain Kirk facing off a Cyberman with The Fourth Doctor, is not only a scene in the comic, a long scene at that, but also portrayed differently from the painted likenesses of the main book, but in a manner closer to the Star Trek animated series…


What’s next? William Hartnell and Captain Janeway? Make it so…
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See also.....

THE TREK FRANCHISE......

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/the-trek-franchise.78/
 
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Volume 9 of this series focuses on Series 4 (2008) of the revamped Doctor Who starring David Tennant, as well as the 2009 Specials that finished out his era, with bonus write-ups on Music of the Spheres, the animated adventure Dreamland and The Sarah Jane Adventures story "The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith." Essays in this volume include: "Should Doctor Who be Appointment Television?," "How Can Anyone Know About the Time War?," and "Why Can't Anyone Just Die?"


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Product details
  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Mad Norwegian Press (23 April 2019)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 193523420X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1935234203
  • Product Dimensions: 2.5 x 15.2 x 22.9 cm
 
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I can, at last, contain myself no longer.

I can now grandly claim that I am part of the publishing legend that is Doctor Who, with a teensy claim to quasi-fame. (On this forum at least.)

I was the anonymous/ghost freelance proof-reader on this book.....


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....... correcting grammatical errors and gently reshaping the layout of the text, without hopefully offending the author.

It was in no way to be compared with retrieving missing episodes from war zones... and in fact the entirety of my contribution was a case of the author e-mailing the text of the book to me, whereupon I then sifted through the text carefully, before e-mailing it back.

Hardly Robert Holmes or Terrance Dicks, but there you go. Although there was a dash of Terry Nation's "take the money and fly like a thief!" ethos involved.

But unless the Mandela Effect erases me tomorrow (and who could blame it), it is my small, albeit anonymous, contribution to - at last - something creative in the annals of Doctor Who literature....

Oh, and I have a friend who knows Steve Lyons.

That's about it.

I am now hoping that this leads to script editing duties on all the scripts of series 12, as soon as I can find the delete button;.

I bring keyboard's gift of death to all New Who......
 
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ant-mac

ant-mac

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Doctor Omega said:
I can, at last, contain myself no longer.

I can now grandly claim that I am part of the publishing legend that is Doctor Who, with a teensy claim to quasi-fame. (On this forum at least.)

I was the anonymous/ghost freelance proof-reader on this book.....


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....... correcting grammatical errors and gently reshaping the layout of the text, without hopefully offending the author.

It was in no way to be compared with retrieving missing episodes from war zones... and in fact the entirety of my contribution was a case of the author e-mailing the text of the book to me, whereupon I then sifted through the text carefully, before e-mailing it back.

Hardly Robert Holmes or Terrance Dicks, but there you go. Although there was a dash of Terry Nation's "take the money and fly like a thief!" ethos involved.

But unless the Mandela Effect erases me tomorrow (and who could blame it), it is my small, albeit anonymous, contribution to - at last - something creative in the annals of Doctor Who literature....

Oh, and I have a friend who knows Steve Lyons.

That's about it.

I am now hoping that this leads to script editing duties on all the scripts of series 12, as soon as I can find the delete button;.

I bring keyboard's gift of death to all New Who......
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Can I have your autograph? :emoji_heart_eyes:
 
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You can indeed guys. :emoji_alien:

Free to you of course, though I usually charge £95 at comicons, when I can jostle Eccleston out of the way and nick his table. He's had his chance. :emoji_angry:

I usually have a panel of course, where I regale the crowd with tales of how the publishers lied to me about the amount of ink involved - and of how I decided to quit after only proof-reading one book, whereupon I was blacklisted. :emoji_disappointed:


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ant-mac

ant-mac

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Doctor Omega said:
You can indeed guys. :emoji_alien:

Free to you of course, though I usually charge £95 at comicons, when I can jostle Eccleston out of the way and nick his table. He's had his chance. :emoji_angry:

I usually have a panel of course, where I regale the crowd with tales of how the publishers lied to me about the amount of ink involved - and of how I decided to quit after only proof-reading one book, whereupon I was blacklisted. :emoji_disappointed:


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Is that advertising pamphlet... "real"?
 
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Apparently, what actually happened was that the convention organiser kept making bigger and bigger offers to Eccleston, When he finally accepted an astronomical fee for appearing, the organiser's money had to be then recouped from - you guessed it - the poor sods who had turned up to see him. :emoji_head_bandage:

So Eccleston was indeed ripping his fans off. Just indirectly. :emoji_nerd:
 
ant-mac

ant-mac

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Doctor Omega said:
Apparently, what actually happened was that the convention organiser kept making bigger and bigger offers to Eccleston, When he finally accepted an astronomical fee for appearing, the organiser's money had to be then recouped from - you guessed it - the poor sods who had turned up to see him. :emoji_head_bandage:

So Eccleston was indeed ripping his fans off. Just indirectly. :emoji_nerd:
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Well, I never thought much of his contribution to DOCTOR WHO...

And I think a whole lot less of it and him now.
 
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