A joyful celebration of fan love. Unofficial episode guides don’t come much more engaging than this” Benjamin Cook, co-author of Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale. Its hero, its monsters, and even its theme song have become pop culture icons. As neil gaiman complained to the authors, “I have just lost four hours to your blasted book.
And i only meant to glance at it. Allons-y! In this volume covering six seasons of the new series, including Daleks, Cybermen, and the eight Classic Series Doctors, two Doctor Who experts provide insights into everything from the history of the show, to a detailed episode guide.
The Doctors Are In: The Essential and Unofficial Guide to Doctor Who's Greatest Time Lord
And yet the questions about him remain the same: who is he? why does he act the way he does? What motivates him to fight evil across space and time? The Doctors Are In is a guide to television’s most beloved time traveler from the authors of Who Is the Doctor and Who’s 50 Get to know the eccentric alien known as the Doctor in this “out-of-this-world read for both Classic and New Who fans” Library Journal.
And why he’s a hero to millions.
Who's 50: The 50 Doctor Who Stories to Watch Before You Die
Like being thrown the keys to the tardis with a temporal map to visit all those not-to-be-missed adventures in time and space” Phil Ford, Doctor Who writer.
Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas adams’s “six-part trilogy, ” the hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy grew from a blip of a notion into an ever-expanding multimedia universe that amassed an unprecedented cult of followers and became an international sensation. Idiosyncratic. . . In don’t panic, films, gaiman celebrates everything hitchhiker: the original radio play, record albums, one-man shows, the Great One himself, the books, comics, video and computer games, television series, stage musicals, and towels.
The #1 new york times–bestselling author’s “hilarious. . . Part biography, part tell-all parody, part pop-culture history, part guide to a guide, Don’t Panic “deserves as much cult success as the Hitchhiker’s books themselves” Time Out. Delightful” and definitive companion to a global phenomenon Publishers Weekly.
And as douglas adams himself attested: “It’s all absolutely devastatingly true—except the bits that are lies.
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor Target Collection
Driven by demons and despair, this battle-scarred Doctor is set to take a devastating decision that will threaten the survival of the entire universe… a decision that not even a Time Lord can take alone. And one other – the man they used to be but never speak of – is fighting the Daleks in the darkest days of the Time War.
The tenth doctor is hunting shape-shifting Zygons in Elizabethan England.
Doctor Who: The Target Storybook
Each story expands in thrilling ways upon aspects of Doctor Who’s enduring legend. We’re all stories in the end…in this exciting collection you’ll find all-new stories spinning off from some of your favourite Doctor Who moments across the history of the series.
Doctor Who: The Missy Chronicles
So please try to keep up.
Mathematics Minus Fear: How to Make Math Fun and Beneficial to Your Everyday Life
Along the way you’ll also discover who invented numbers, whether animals can count, and what nuns have to do with multiplication. Using fascinating puzzles and surprising examples, from how the VAT works to why weather forecasts are wrong, he shows us how math is connected with the world we encounter every day, from winning at Monopoly to improving your mental arithmetic.
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Count Belisarius
Loosely based on procopius’s history of the justinian Wars and Secret History, this novel tells the Belisarius’s story through the eyes of Eugenius, a eunuch and servant to the general’s wife. Eminent historical novelist and classicist Robert Graves presents a vivid account of a time in history both dissolute and violent, and demonstrates one again his mastery of this historical period.
This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures the sixth century fall of the Byzantine Empire as seen through the eyes of a servant Kirkus Reviews. Threatened by invaders on all sides, the Eastern Roman Empire of the sixth century fought to maintain its borders. Leading its defense was the byzantine general Belisarius, a man who earned the grudging respect of his enemies, and who rose to become Emperor Justinian’s greatest military leader.
It presents a compelling portrait of a man bound by a strict code of honor and unrelenting loyalty to an emperor who is intelligent but flawed, and whose decisions bring him to a tragic end.
Snow White, Blood Red
Mckillip, jack dann, and others, all paying a revisit to our favorite fairy tales in ways you’ve never dared to imagine. A boy is haunted through adulthood by a soul-eating creature that lies forever in wait under neil gaiman’s “troll bridge”; a melancholy amphibian shares his most private fantasies with a therapist in Gahan Wilson’s “The Frog Prince”; in Tanith Lee’s “Snow-Drop, ” a lonely artist invites seven circus performers into her home to satisfy an obsession; in Steve Rasnic Tem’s “Little Poucet, ” a band of lost brothers find refuge and terror with a hungry family in the woods; and Wendy Wheeler delves into the deviant psyche of the predatory male in “Little Red.
Also featuring nancy kress, Charles de Lint, Melanie Tem, Patricia A. Nightmarish. . .
Tales from the White Hart
One of the most astounding imaginations ever encountered in print. The new york Times. Inspired by the jorkens collections by lord dunsany, this anthology combines elements of comedy and horror, with “sly wit and inviting prose style” and a distinctly English flavor AV Club. A consummate storyteller, harry is joined by the actual writers Samuel Youd, all under pseudonyms, John Wyndham, and Clarke himself, and all trying to outdo each other with their outlandish tales of science and invention.
A compendium of science fiction stories filled with “high diversion, amusement and amazement” from the legendary creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey Los Angeles Times.