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Dec 05 2009

Paperback Book Club

Posted by Dorian in Doctor Who, PBBC

The Also People, 1995, Ben Aaronovitch
One of the better Who novels, and one of the few that really feels like it lives up to that promise of using the novels to tell stories too “big” for television. You’ve got a fully realized and engaging alien culture, all the companions getting along instead of squabbling or angsting for dramatic purposes, and a well-crafted central story, involving the possible murder of a sentient computer.
There is also Dalek poetry.

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7 Responses to “Paperback Book Club”
  1. TeamSmithy says:
    December 5, 2009 at 3:00 AM

    This was my favourite book when I was 12. It blew my mind.

  2. die Giesthander says:
    December 5, 2009 at 10:24 AM

    ODE TO A DAF-FO-DILL:

    A-HEM.

    EX-TER-MIN-ATE DAF-FO-DILL!

  3. Lucy Anne says:
    December 5, 2009 at 11:58 AM

    exterminate! ex
    terminate! exterminate!
    exterminate! ex-

    Crap.

    (Why Daleks do not write a lot of haiku)

  4. Martin Wisse says:
    December 5, 2009 at 12:30 PM

    Is this the one with the thinly disguised version of Iain M. Banks’ Culture in it?

  5. Ben says:
    December 6, 2009 at 12:30 PM

    Yes.

  6. Ben says:
    December 6, 2009 at 1:35 PM

    Want to make something of it?

  7. Mitchell Craig says:
    December 8, 2009 at 8:27 AM

    Dalek poetry, Gracie?
    Is it Vogon-grade bad or just lousy?

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