Doctor Who: The Deviant Strain - Justin Richards

There is one thing that fiction has over TV and film that they will never be able to emulate and that is imagination. Even if you are Spielberg at some point you are going to run out of money needed and you will have to compromise your vision. This is not the case in fiction as the budget for a book is the same no matter if it is about a quiet meeting between two people in a dingy flat or a space battle that spans ten years. This is why science fiction works so well on the page as authors can truly put down what they want and never have to stop for reshoots or special effects budgets. I find that the biggest gap is between TV shows and their tie ins. Budget ...

Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket - Justin Richards

There are certain things that make small boys smile with glee such as; ninjas, dinosaurs, superheroes and sea creatures. If I was a movie exec I could easily come up with some cynical method of exploiting this youthful enthusiasm by combining more than one group. Imagine a film about ninja fighting dinosaurs that set off to fight a superhero race of giant sea creatures. Are you trying to tell me that wouldn’t make at least $500,000,000 in box office receipts? Two areas that have been particularly popular for kids recently have been Doctor Who and Pirates. Therefore, it was no surprise to an old cynic like myself that I happened to come across a book that combined ...