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William Emms (1930–1993)

Auteur van Doctor Who: Galaxy Four

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Werken van William Emms

Doctor Who: Galaxy Four (1985) 244 exemplaren
Mission to Venus (1986) 43 exemplaren
Doctor Who The Scripts: Galaxy 4 (1994) 35 exemplaren

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Officiële naam
Emms, William John
Geboortedatum
1930-01-29
Overlijdensdatum
1993-05
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
UK
Plaats van overlijden
Merton, Surrey, England

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http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2274954.html

This was apparently based on ideas that Emms (who wrote Galaxy 4 had put together for a Second Doctor story to be called The Imps. I fear it may be one of those cases where we should be rather glad it wasn't made. The plot, such as it is, is about a rather tedious effort to manage dangerous plants on a vital spaceship run. The next sentence of this paragraph is not an opinion I shall often have cause to express, but in this case it is true. Terror of the Vervoids did it better.

The structure of the book is much the laziest of any of the six: at every turn, you are presented with three choices, of which in every single case the first two lead to failure and the third to success. From both section 14 and section 23, the two wrong options are section 8 and section 16, while sections 12 and 22 are fatal snippets which are not attached to any preceding text. I couldn't actually be bothered to work out which ending was meant to go with which previous section. The one mildly saving grace is that a couple of the false turns are so silly as to verge on gonzo surrealism: one option, for instance, has "you" gobbled up by Dracula and his brides (who are somehow occupying a cabin in a spaceship to Venus), and another leaves "you" trying to emulate the Scarlet Pimpernel in revolutionary France. But this is lazy stuff, contemptuous of the reader.
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nwhyte | May 3, 2014 |
I'm not very good with audio-only, as I yet again discovered when I settled to listen to this - I'm sure it's well worth listening to but I struggle to just listen.
 
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queen_ypolita | Nov 9, 2008 |
Its a Target Novellisation, give it a break.
A very simple tale of goodies versus baddies in a very black and white world. But the Doctor, Steven and Vicki come across well and it occupies a couple of hours easily enough.
 
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munchkinstein | 1 andere bespreking | Jul 21, 2008 |
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Galaxy Four was the first story from the third season, shown in 1966 (odd to think of it as the Classic Who equivalent of Smith and Jones). It's the only one from that year I haven't yet seen/heard, but I got the novel for free yesterday with the SFX Doctor Who special and read it pretty quickly. It's actually rather good, up there with the average Missing Adventure of the Virgin series. with Emms (who wrote nothing else for Doctor Who) letting us inside the mind of the Doctor very convincingly, and also attempting to flesh out his rather one-dimensional villain, Maaga, leader of the female Drahvin warriors. Must try and catch up with the actual series now, though I have a suspicion this may be one of the cases where the novel is better than the story.

https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/galaxy-four-the-newish-dvd/

Coming back to it fifteen years on, I remain favourably impressed. Emms was clearly a fan, and fills out the narrative not only with scenes that he would have liked to include in the actual show, but also with subsequent Who lore – most of the references to the TARDIS crew being from Earth are removed, and there are several mentions of the Doctor having two hearts, which of course wouldn’t become TV canon for another five years. We also find out that the Rills don’t share our concept of time. It’s well done.
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