Dr Who and the Daleks
Obverse Books charity novel
The first voyage of Dr Who’s space and time machine, Tardis, takes the inventor and his young companions spinning out of control to the dead planet of Skaro, where a nuclear war has left the planet devastated and the mutated the survivors into monsters.
In their metal city, the Daleks are waiting for Dr Who.
Notes:
The Peter Cushing Dr Who movies tend to get short shrift with a lot of Doctor Who fans, but I have a tremendous affection for them. Jon Pertwee was my first Doctor but one of my earliest memories of the franchise - of anything really - is watching the second Dalek movie on TV in our old flat in the 1970s.
Thankfully, I am not the only one with a fondness for these movies. When the Doctor Who and Beano writer Tommy Donbavand became ill with cancer, I did a short story for Obverse's A Target For Tommy. That led to a discussion with Stu at Obverse and from that came a set of novels featuring Peter Cushing's Dr Who. I had novelised the two movies for a friend who was quite seriously ill, but expanding that out to add "what if there were more movies?" allowed me - and other writers - to explore an era of Doctor Who - or more accurately Dr Who - we didn't really know existed.
Of course, the most important thing with these books - and Stuart Douglas at Obverse was really the spark for everything by publishing the two A Target For Tommy anthologies - is that the money raised helped Tommy and his family at a really tough time. He was a lovely, lovely bloke. nobody deserves to be struck by cancer, but for it to hit someone as genuinely nice and as beloved as Tommy just feels cruel and unfair. A bunch of people were involved in getting these books out, and if they helped Tommy in any way, then we achieved what we set out to do.
In their metal city, the Daleks are waiting for Dr Who.
Notes:
The Peter Cushing Dr Who movies tend to get short shrift with a lot of Doctor Who fans, but I have a tremendous affection for them. Jon Pertwee was my first Doctor but one of my earliest memories of the franchise - of anything really - is watching the second Dalek movie on TV in our old flat in the 1970s.
Thankfully, I am not the only one with a fondness for these movies. When the Doctor Who and Beano writer Tommy Donbavand became ill with cancer, I did a short story for Obverse's A Target For Tommy. That led to a discussion with Stu at Obverse and from that came a set of novels featuring Peter Cushing's Dr Who. I had novelised the two movies for a friend who was quite seriously ill, but expanding that out to add "what if there were more movies?" allowed me - and other writers - to explore an era of Doctor Who - or more accurately Dr Who - we didn't really know existed.
Of course, the most important thing with these books - and Stuart Douglas at Obverse was really the spark for everything by publishing the two A Target For Tommy anthologies - is that the money raised helped Tommy and his family at a really tough time. He was a lovely, lovely bloke. nobody deserves to be struck by cancer, but for it to hit someone as genuinely nice and as beloved as Tommy just feels cruel and unfair. A bunch of people were involved in getting these books out, and if they helped Tommy in any way, then we achieved what we set out to do.