Major Geek-y Dr Who question

[KatyMac]

Sad but true

I NEED to know what the little circles/shapes/hexagons are on the spines of the Dr Who books

Do they have a meaning?

Are they a form of numbering

Am I really sad?

[UnquietDad]

Ker-ching! All sales gratefully accepted...

[PandaG]

went to the Dr Who exhibition in Manchester last weekend, as a post Christmas trip for the DC - and we both like Dr Who too, DS had several of the new books for Christmas, I wil examine the spines next time I go into his room!

UQD - have realised that we own, and I have read one of your non-fiction books (good loo reading KM!), and quite fancy your latest fiction, sounds up my street

[cornsilk]

Damn I'm going to have to read the whole bleeding thread to work this out now!

[Nymphadora]

Just worked out who you are I think!

[UnquietDad]

Two Dr Whos, but the rest not.

[cornsilk]

I am being really thick here and trying to get that penny to drop but it's stuck. So UQD has written some popular books, were they Dr Who books or do I really have to read the whole thread to work it out?

[UnquietDad]

This week was the 100th anniversary of the birth of William Hartnell. He was only 55 when he took on the part - not as old as people might think! (Younger than Peter Davison and David Bowie are today, and about the age Pierce Brosnan and Anthony Head are!!)

[partsky]

I remember the first Dr Who being broadcast. Every Saturday after that at teatime the entire street cleared of kids, clutching sherbet flying saucers, black jacks, mo jos, and in my saddo best friends case, floral gums (terrible tiny hard scented gums; yuk) We still talk about it forty years after we first started watching and I still associate those sweets with Dr Who. Lived in terror of the Daleks. This is even sadder; does anyone remember the Monoptra, who were moth like types on Gallifrey? God, since retiring I have to much time on my hands. I am soooooo sad

[UnquietDad]

I have written two or three great "loo books"

[KatyMac]

[KatyMac]

Actually I am reading non-fiction atm "How to fossilize your Hamster" or something like that which is admittedly fab

I am not a fan of information books either - my brother always loved them

My uncle writes politics texts books they are supposedly non fiction

I went through a stage of reading real stuff (mainly history) but read such a lot of conflicting info I went back to sci-fi

My main times for reading are on the loo or in the bath - real doesn't come across well in that situation

[UnquietDad]

Not bodice-rippers I'm afraid...
Non-fiction is a broad church, katymac! I can't say what they are without giving the actual titles but they are more... interesting and humorous than the genre might suggest...

[KatyMac]

As for 'non-fiction' yuk....not my thing at all - why read 'real' stuff it kinda spoils the whole reason for reading iyswim

[KatyMac]

Oh what I shame - I prefer Sci-fi (well & historical romances - but I assumed (perhaps wrongly) hat you didn't do them )

Never mind - I'm sure you will live up to your previous Dr Who aspirations are write some lovely stuff with the new Dr's? Or alternatively a good bodice ripper?

[UnquietDad]

[RustyBear]

Like your website btw - and I got the 'jingo' joke

[UnquietDad]

nah! But thanks for the offer.
If anyone can be bothered to put the clues together and look it up they probably deserve to know who I am. And a few people on here do anyway.

katymac - my other stuff is more "normal". Fiction and non-fiction.

[RustyBear]

UQD - I think my 21:56 post may make it a bit too easy to identify you, would you like me to get it deleted?

[KatyMac]

Is your other stuff Sci-Fi or more normal?

[RustyBear]

Quick Google....

Seems to be a certain omission from your 'favourite sites' links UQD

[RustyBear]

Umm - have to admit I haven't actually read those .... we only ever had about a dozen of the New Adventures - I got the numbers off Wikipedia.
Will now have a look on my favourite 2nd hand book site though...

[UnquietDad]

I'm more famous for my subsequent work... my DW stuff is a bit.. well... They're not my best!

[KatyMac]

[RustyBear]

Oh, you posted that while I was sorting my spread sheet!

Got it!

[UnquietDad]

They are DR & IR