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]

Are the newish ones with Ace in them the New Adventures, katymac? (Published by Virgin?) They didn't have numbers, no.

(I wrote two of them!)

[KatyMac]

The ones I have???

How exciting - actually I have 2 out of a 3 parter witch's something or other I think - they didn't make that much impact (sorry - he wasn't my DR)

I didn't really do McCoy, or Davidson, or that other pratt (Baker - seems sacrilege to call him a 'Baker' )

Tho' I have rather liked the most recent Dr's blush possibly from a different perspective

[UnquietDad]

Witchmark by Andrew Hunt? That was one of the earliest.

Mine are (I think) no.20 and no. 36!

[UnquietDad]

I know, they don't have numbers, but I'm sure you can count...

[KatyMac]

Not this late I am tired

[RustyBear]

Ok - that seems to narrow it down to 8

Or if they both actually had Ace in them, even further...

[UnquietDad]

They are DR & IR

[RustyBear]

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

Got it!

[KatyMac]

[UnquietDad]

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

[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...

[RustyBear]

Quick Google....

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

[KatyMac]

Is your other stuff Sci-Fi or more normal?

[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?

[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]

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

[UnquietDad]

[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?

[KatyMac]

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

[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]

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

[KatyMac]

[UnquietDad]

I have written two or three great "loo books"

[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]

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!!)