Kate Orman
Autore di The Left-Handed Hummingbird
Opere di Kate Orman
Ten Minute Waltz [short story] 1 copia
Keeping Mum 1 copia
LifeDeath 1 copia
All the Children of Chimaera 1 copia
In the Days of the Red Animals 1 copia
Ticket to Backwards 1 copia
Opere correlate
Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It (2010) — Collaboratore — 264 copie
Decalog 4: Re:Generations: Ten Stories, A Thousand Years, One Family (1997) — Collaboratore — 66 copie
Time, Unincorporated: The Doctor Who Fanzine Archives, Vol. 2: Writings on the Classic Series (2010) — Collaboratore — 29 copie
Time, Unincorporated: The Doctor Who Fanzine Archives, Vol. 3: Writings on the New Series (2011) — Collaboratore — 19 copie
Perfect Timing 1 — Collaboratore — 13 copie
Passing strange: A new anthology of Australian speculative fiction (2002) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
The Hopes and Fears of All the Years and Other Doctor Who Christmas Short Trips — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1968
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Australia
- Luogo di nascita
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Istruzione
- University of Sydney
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
short-story writer - Relazioni
- Blum, Jonathan (husband)
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 26
- Opere correlate
- 25
- Utenti
- 2,232
- Popolarità
- #11,495
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 39
- ISBN
- 31
- Preferito da
- 3
In 1996, after five years of publishing novels about the further adventures of the Doctor as portrayed by Sylvester McCoy in the now-cancelled TV series, Virgin Books lost its license. The BBC had decided to take these things back in-house, and update the series to feature the new Doctor, as briefly played by Paul McGann in a failed TV movie pilot. After an initial novel that was, frankly, a bit of a waste, and designed mostly to explicitly link McGann's incarnation to his seven predecessors, Vampire Science feels like a true pilot for this new approach.
Orman and Blum already had well-established street cred in the Whoniverse, and together they create a snappy, sassy, engaging narrative. It's about vampires, so not especially original, but it keeps the pace up. Both the Doctor and his companion Sam come through strongly, leaving me enthusiastic for what comes next in this series (which I'll now be reading concurrently with the McCoy NAs). Having said that, where the novel struggles is that it feels like a Doctor Who script turned into a novelisation. Which it's obviously not but, for fans of the program's first 26 years on the air, it's understandable that this can become the go-to template. There's a hectic amount of dialogue, scenes that last too long, attempts at portraying recurring comedic bits or rapid action sequences that are clearly intended to be visualised as an episode of the program, and in general an approach that feels televisual rather than literary. I like both Orman and Blum so I can forgive that, although it will sadly relegate Vampire Science to "tie-in TV merchandise" in the eyes of lay readers.
Looking forward to this series - even though I'm aware that many fans believe it went in some strange and deeply unsatisfying directions!… (altro)