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Simon Guerrier

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Werken van Simon Guerrier

The Pirate Loop (2007) 377 exemplaren
The Slitheen Excursion (2009) 209 exemplaren
The Time Travellers (2005) 132 exemplaren
Being Human: The Road (2010) 49 exemplaren
Short Trips: Time Signature (2006) 48 exemplaren
Short Trips: Dalek Empire (2006) — Redacteur — 41 exemplaren
Shadow of Death (2013) 38 exemplaren
Fire and Water (2009) 34 exemplaren
A Life Worth Living (2005) — Redacteur — 32 exemplaren
The Key 2 Time: The Judgement of Isskar (2009) — Auteur — 31 exemplaren
Irregularity (2014) — Medewerker — 30 exemplaren
Something Changed (2006) 29 exemplaren
The Settling (2006) — Auteur — 26 exemplaren
Home Truths (2008) 26 exemplaren
The Drowned World (2009) 26 exemplaren
The Key 2 Time: The Prisoner's Dilemma (2009) — Auteur — 25 exemplaren
The Guardian of the Solar System (2010) 24 exemplaren
Doctor Who: The Boxset (2008) 22 exemplaren
The Perpetual Bond (2011) 22 exemplaren
Shadow of the Past (2010) 21 exemplaren
The Cold Equations (2011) 20 exemplaren
Re:Collections: The Best of Short Trips (2009) — Medewerker — 19 exemplaren
The First Wave (2011) 18 exemplaren
The Library of Alexandria (2013) 17 exemplaren
The Wake (2007) 17 exemplaren
Summer of Love (2005) 17 exemplaren
The Anachronauts (2012) 16 exemplaren
The Empty House (2012) 16 exemplaren
Graceless: Alone in Time and Space... (2010) — Auteur — 16 exemplaren
The Companion Chronicles: The First Doctor, Volume One (2015) — Auteur — 15 exemplaren
The Memory Cheats (2011) 15 exemplaren
The War to End All Wars (2014) 15 exemplaren
The School (2006) 14 exemplaren
The Mega (Doctor Who: The Lost Stories) (2013) — Auteur — 13 exemplaren
The Uncertainty Principle (2012) 11 exemplaren
Doctor Who: Paper Dolls (2017) 11 exemplaren
The Sontarans (2017) — Auteur — 10 exemplaren
The Black Hole (2015) — Auteur — 10 exemplaren
The Yes Men (2015) — Auteur — 9 exemplaren
Time War: Susan's War (2020) — Auteur — 9 exemplaren
Dark Shadows: The Creeping Fog (2011) 9 exemplaren
Rebel, Traitor, Liberator (2008) — Auteur — 9 exemplaren
The Two Irises (2009) 8 exemplaren
Shadow of the Daleks 1 (2020) — Auteur — 7 exemplaren
The end of the end (2016) 6 exemplaren
The Outliers (2017) — Auteur — 5 exemplaren
Time Lord Victorious: Master Thief / Lesser Evils (2020) — Auteur — 5 exemplaren
Doctor Who: The Daily Doctor (2023) 5 exemplaren
The Siege (Robin Hood) (2009) 4 exemplaren
Many Happy Returns 3 exemplaren
The Worlds of Blake's 7 - - Allies and Enemies [MP3] (2023) — Auteur — 3 exemplaren
The Home Guard (2019) 2 exemplaren
The Coup 1 exemplaar
The Coup / Silver Lining (2004) 1 exemplaar
Lesser Evils 1 exemplaar
The Switching (2002) 1 exemplaar
The Uncertain Shore 1 exemplaar

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Geboortedatum
1976-06-24
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
UK
Geboorteplaats
Romsey, Hampshire, England, UK
Relaties
Challis, Debbie (wife)

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Dalek Empire is a 2001-08 audio spin-off series from Big Finish (its first, actually, I believe), chronicling a Dalek invasion of the galaxy, focusing on the humans caught up in it when the Doctor's not around to save anyone. I picked it up in a sale a few years ago, but have never actually gotten around to listening to it; there is always too much new Big Finish to listen to first! The range engendered a tie-in of its own, the sixteenth volume of Big Finish's Short Trips series of anthologies, which was released between the third and fourth series.

I haven't heard Dalek Empire, but I know the broad outlines of the plot; probably there's stuff here I'd get better having heard it, but I felt okay for the most part. Most of the stories here fall into two buckets. The first is made up of character studies of Dalek Empire's three human leads: "Kalendorf" by Nicholas Briggs and "Alby" and "Suz" by Sharon Gosling. "Kalendorf" takes place at the very beginning of the series, during the initial Dalek assault, while "Alby" and "Suz" take place later on, delving into the thoughts of those characters. They were all decent stories (I liked the horror of the Daleks in "Kalendorf") best, but also the ones that I suspect would most benefit from actually having heard the series.

Most of the rest of the stories are side stories to the Dalek invasion of the Milky Way, many of them including the Doctor in some capacity. But in these stories, he doesn't go around defeating dastardly plans; because the events of Dalek Empire already proceed without him, they're kind of what you might call "future historicals," featuring the Doctor on the fringes of future history, helping the little people, but not making any significant changes. My favorites among these included Ian Farrington's "Hide and Seek," where the third Doctor and Jo help a group of refugees evacuate; Farrington captures the Doctor and Jo particularly well.

The best of them as definitely Joseph Lidster's "Natalie's Diary," which is about a young woman named Natalie trying to stay alive during the Dalek assault on her planet, aided by the seventh Doctor, Ace, and Hex. As usual for Lidster, the strength of the story is in its characterization, as Natalie slowly discovers the hardness of the world she has come into. Ace and Hex aren't focal characters, but are deftly drawn, recalling one of Big Finish's best runs. The story is framed by a history student reading Natalie's diaries sometime later, which I think is set during the events of Dalek Empire III (when the Daleks return). The other ones are fine enough, though I found Ian Farrington's "Private Investigations" and Justin Richards's "Mutually Assured Survival" kind of pointless and dull.

There are two stories that break from this format. One is Simon Guerrier's "The Eighth Wonder of the World," which isn't a Dalek Empire tie-in at all, but a follow-up to the first Doctor serial The Daleks' Master Plan, featuring the sixth Doctor and Evelyn investigating what happened to a Dalek left behind in ancient Egypt during that adventure. Guerrier does his usual clever and interesting work, but it feels too fanciful in this context; Dalek Empire just isn't this kind of Dalek story.

The other is the volume's definitely standout, "Museum Peace" by James Swallow. Long after the events of Dalek Empire II: Dalek War, Kalendorf is retired and visiting a museum devoted to the Dalek War, contemplating how time has moved on. The Doctor is there, too (who he already knows; more on that in a minute), in his eighth incarnation, contemplating some terrible action against the Daleks. It's a deftly written, powerful story about grief and anger and moving on. Clearly when it was written, Swallow intended the eighth Doctor to be thinking about obliterating the Daleks, though subsequent revelations in "The Day of the Doctor" mean that can't be the case. But it holds up regardlessā€”you can imagine the Doctor is at some terrible low during the Time War. (Or, in a very tenuous pet theory of mine, it takes place between To the Death and Dark Eyes, with the Doctor driven to despair.)

The book also includes the script for The Return of the Daleks, a 2006 audio drama that crossed the seventh Doctor into the events of Dalek Empire, as well as a sequel to the tv story Planet of the Daleks. (Hence, how Kalendorf knows the Doctor.) It wasn't a particularly great audio (I have actually heard it; it was a freebie for subscribers to Big Finish's main Doctor Who range), and reading a script is honestly never really that interesting. It feels like it's there to pad the book outā€”a whole forty pages! Given how many authors contribute two stories, one wonders if the volume was put together in a hurry.

(Despite the cover, the first, second, fourth, and fifth Doctors do not appear in this book.)
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Stevil2001 | 1 andere bespreking | Jan 27, 2024 |
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This really is one of the best Black Archive volumes that I have read so far, and also I think the longest. Some earlier ones went rather far into the literary origins of particular Who stories, perhaps because there wasnā€™t all that much to say about the actual stories in question. Guerrier looks at that a little, but doesnā€™t waste too much time on it, and is much more interested in telling the story of Evil of the Daleks ā€“ both production and reception ā€“ as a social process, carried out in real time by real people. As Iā€™ve done before, Iā€™ll list out the (few and long) chapters in summary:

London, 20 July 1966: Looks at the difficulties of analysing a story that is mostly lost, and at the production background and influences on the fist episode and a half (no woman appears in the 1966 scenes; originally Ben and Polly would have been in the first two episodes, and the Samantha Briggs character from The Faceless Ones would have been the new companion);
Outside Canterbury, 2 to 3 June 1866: looks at the Victorian setting of the middle episodes and Victoriana in general, but also at the character of Maxtible (Marius Goring, the lead guest star, had a fixation with Henry Irving and his play The Bells, which is one of the artistic source for Evil) and what we learn about the Doctor;
Skaro: Date Unknown: goes into great detail on the Daleks and on what Terry Nation and David Whitaker might have argued about, given that Whitaker arguably had an equal share in their creation; and
Earth, 1967-2017: looking at the reception and preservation of the story over fifty years ā€“ lot of deep research into how and where the scripts were preserved, featuring in places my old friend Rebecca Levene; the Beatlesā€™ song Paperback Writer was played during the original cafe scene in the first episode, but has been dropped from releases of the sound track for copyright reasons; new photographs and off-air recordings keep coming to light.
Guerrier ends by appealing for the animation of the missing episodes which has since been accomplished, but also (as usual for these books) has a decent bibliography. Itā€™s a really solid piece of work.

My one complaint is that yet again the footnotes have been botched on the epub version. Clicking on any of the hundreds of footnote links in the text takes you to the start of the footnote section rather than to the relevant footnote itself. When you have found your footnote and ty to click back to where you were in the main text, you are taken instead to the start of the relevant chapter ā€“ and these are long chapters. No blame attaches to the author for this, but really, publisher, this is not rocket science and you got it right in several of the others.
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nwhyte | May 15, 2022 |
Better than Hunters of Earth, and Fraser Hines does a lovely job of narrating this story.
 
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