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BBC Books recently published an anthology of the stories that were produced during the lockdown this year, including those published on the Doctor Who website and the briefly animated stories that were released alongside the watch-alongs organized by Emily Cook, as well as the scripts that Jodie Whittaker and Arthur Darvill performed.
In addition to that, three new stories were written specifically for the collection, including one by Neil Gaiman which features The Corsair stealing a familiar ancient artifact...and it has left me wanting so many more stories about The Corsair written by Gaiman!
You can get the book at the Book Depository and a portion of the proceeds go to Children in Need.
I got the book last month from Book Depository as well. I've been told, by someone who worked on the book, that it wasn't supposed to be sold outside of the UK, so way to be on top of that, BD.
I received Adventures in Lockdown, a collection of the short fiction and some new pieces (fiction and artwork), from the first "Lockdown" in the spring, yesterday. The thing that it's missing that I wish were collected is the text of Russell T. Davies' "Farewell, Sarah Jane."
For people who care about such things, Adventures in Lockdown smells amazing. The paper and ink smell bring back good memories, memories of childhood and the Scholastic Book Fair. If you don't have that memory of being eight, and having a ten dollar bill your dad gave you in the morning, and seeing all the tables in the school gym, and buying a Little House book, and knowing how it feels and how it looks and how excited you are, then the comparison may not make much sense. But it does for me. That's how this book makes me feel. Just holding it, I feel happy.
As for the contents, if you followed the Lockdown material online, you're going to be familiar with about ninety percent of this. While some of the text stories I built into an ebook for myself, some of the other stuff, like the videos, I couldn't do that with, so it's nice to have them all (minus, of course, "Farewell, Sarah Jane") in one package. Steven Moffat's "The Terror of the Umpty Ums" is wonderful and different -- think Gaiman's "One Life, Furnished with Early Moorcock" or my own "Make-Believe" -- and he writes the thirteenth Doctor very well.
There are three original stories, one from Neil Gaiman, one from Vinay Patel, and one from Mark Gatiss.
Gaiman's story, "One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes," which he talked a little bit about in his podcast with David Tennant a few weeks ago, centers on the Corsair. I'm not sure which Corsair this is meant to be -- I think it's a new incarnation we've not seen or knew of before -- and Gaiman seems to suggest that whatever happened before "The Doctor's Wife" was not the death of the Corsair. The story is surprisingly fanwanky -- it's a prequel to a seventh Doctor story, and there's a Cartmel Masterplan reference. Gaiman has some lovely turns of phrase -- like when the Corsair's TARDIS enters the Vortex. It's little slight, but it's nice and feels Gaiman-y. I'd kinda like a story with Iris Wildthyme and Panda teaming up with the Corsair and Parrot now.
Gatiss' original story, "Fellow Traveller," is about an old woman encountering the thirteenth Doctor on a rainy and cold night, and they take shelter together in an old, abandoned farmhouse.
Gatiss never names the old woman, nor the Doctor for that matter, but midway through it becomes obvious who the old woman is and what this is a sequel to.
Patel's story, "The Tourist," is about an older man, just moved to the city, having not lived a life of his own for various reasons, who the thirteen Doctor helps in various ways by providing a nudge here and there.
It's a nice little book. It's not essential, if I didn't have it I wouldn't feel I missed it, but I'm glad to have it.
I used to work for The Book Depository in the customer services team and used to read some lovely emails from customers who had just received their book and were very pleased. There could also be some unhappy emails because the website says dispatched within 48 hours and it would be misread as delivered within 48 hours. You can't expect free worldwide delivery within 48 hours but when it eventually arrived they were happy. Some people really love their books.
I got the book last month from Book Depository as well. I've been told, by someone who worked on the book, that it wasn't supposed to be sold outside of the UK, so way to be on top of that, BD.
Oh, damn, I didn't think about its inclusion. I recently watched that segment again last week and left me in tears all over once more. Perhaps it works best with the performances anyways.
For people who care about such things, Adventures in Lockdown smells amazing. The paper and ink smell bring back good memories, memories of childhood and the Scholastic Book Fair. If you don't have that memory of being eight, and having a ten dollar bill your dad gave you in the morning, and seeing all the tables in the school gym, and buying a Little House book, and knowing how it feels and how it looks and how excited you are, then the comparison may not make much sense. But it does for me. That's how this book makes me feel. Just holding it, I feel happy.
Yes! Exactly. I hadn't thought of it in that terms but I definitely noticed that smell and feeling. Thanks for helping me associate that with those memories. I really loved those book fairs as a kid, too.
Gaiman's story, "One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes," which he talked a little bit about in his podcast with David Tennant a few weeks ago, centers on the Corsair. I'm not sure which Corsair this is meant to be -- I think it's a new incarnation we've not seen or knew of before -- and Gaiman seems to suggest that whatever happened before "The Doctor's Wife" was not the death of the Corsair. The story is surprisingly fanwanky -- it's a prequel to a seventh Doctor story, and there's a Cartmel Masterplan reference. Gaiman has some lovely turns of phrase -- like when the Corsair's TARDIS enters the Vortex. It's little slight, but it's nice and feels Gaiman-y. I'd kinda like a story with Iris Wildthyme and Panda teaming up with the Corsair and Parrot now.
Oh, my, I would love to see that team-up, too. But really, I just want more Gaiman stories featuring The Corsair. Or even just more Gaimain writing Doctor Who. Or just more Gaiman. There's never enough!
Gatiss' original story, "Fellow Traveller," is about an old woman encountering the thirteenth Doctor on a rainy and cold night, and they take shelter together in an old, abandoned farmhouse.
Likewise and not just for the Gaimain stories. I also really loved the Paul Cornell entries and their relation to The Family of Blood, as well as The Thirteenth Doctor's Douglas Adams-esque inner monologue just after regeneration.
I actually had a back-up plan for getting a copy -- order it and have it sent to my company's UK offices, and then have the UK office send it to me. Fortunately, I did not have to go to that extreme.
Oh, damn, I didn't think about its inclusion. I recently watched that segment again last week and left me in tears all over once more. Perhaps it works best with the performances anyways.
Jacob Dudman's performance on that is so good. I don't mean his reading, which is wonderful. I mean his reactions. I think half the emotion of it comes from Dudman reacting to the text in real time.
I'm hoping it turns up on a DVD as an extra. Maybe on Revolution of the Daleks?
Yes! Exactly. I hadn't thought of it in that terms but I definitely noticed that smell and feeling. Thanks for helping me associate that with those memories. I really loved those book fairs as a kid, too.
Oh, my, I would love to see that team-up, too. But really, I just want more Gaiman stories featuring The Corsair. Or even just more Gaimain writing Doctor Who. Or just more Gaiman. There's never enough!
Have you read Titan's Corsair/Thirteen story? It's by Jody Houser, not Gaiman, though I believe Gaiman had to sign off on it. It's actually kinda touching -- what if you can have one more adventure with your best friend from college who died long, long ago? It's amusing to see the Doctor as "the sensible one" in that relationship.
Declan May wrote a "War" Corsair story for his Seasons of War anthology, which I've not read in years and can't remember a thing about the story.
I also really loved the Paul Cornell entries and their relation to The Family of Blood, as well as The Thirteenth Doctor's Douglas Adams-esque inner monologue just after regeneration.
Seems like every time Cornell announces that he's done with Doctor Who, he does something else...
Seriously, though, his epilogues to "The Family of Blood" were nice. The mercy of the of the Time Lord can be just as devastating as the fury of the Time Lord.
Jacob Dudman's performance on that is so good. I don't mean his reading, which is wonderful. I mean his reactions. I think half the emotion of it comes from Dudman reacting to the text in real time.
And I'm glad you did! Always good to know someone else who appreciates the physicalness of a book while reading it. Seems like there aren't that many of us left.
Have you read Titan's Corsair/Thirteen story? It's by Jody Houser, not Gaiman, though I believe Gaiman had to sign off on it. It's actually kinda touching -- what if you can have one more adventure with your best friend from college who died long, long ago? It's amusing to see the Doctor as "the sensible one" in that relationship.
Seems like every time Cornell announces that he's done with Doctor Who, he does something else...
Seriously, though, his epilogues to "The Family of Blood" were nice. The mercy of the of the Time Lord can be just as devastating as the fury of the Time Lord.
