... You mean the period where the Doctor worked most closely with the military, and was himself more consistently personally violent than any other time before...
... I thought you meant 'prison is worse than military training' as in 'prison causes suicides more effectively than military training', or something like 'if...
I agree with Steve that it isn't 'certain' that X% of suicides in category A. means that A. is worse than B. Where B. has < X% suicides. But other things being...
... Not to pile on[1], but just to add an observation that occurred to me after I last blathered in this thread: one significant difference in the extent to...
I'm reading "Wildthyme on Top", Big Finish's short story anthology about Iris Wildthyme: I'm just two stories in, but some thoughts so far... I must admit I...
"Oh my God: they all look the same. They all just look like Jim [Smith], but with varying degrees of beard." Or so said my girlfriend just now on seeing a...
... Couldn't agree with you more so far, Henry, though I'd give Jake Eliot a little more leeway and strip the flesh from Justin's bones for his dreadful...
“I’ll have you know Jo that in my younger days I played lead perigosto stick for the Gallifrey Academy Hot Five – until the faculty closed us down. The ...
... Seems likely - the Dicontinuity Guide for Deadly Reunion mentions it too. "Unrecorded Adventures: The Doctor claims to have played lead perigosto stick for...
In all, I'd say "Wildthyme on Top" is the most successful Big Finish anthology I've read. It's a shame that it seems otherwise at the beginning with a dodgy...
Go to <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7072086.stm> and scroll down to the bottom -- JK Rowling and publishers are trying legal means to stop an...
Hi Henry and Steven, Mad Norwegian Press keeps an eye on such cases. Everything they do, though, falls within the "fair use" guidelines of US copyright laws...
... You'll have to forgive me, I'm not as au fait with US IP law as I am with British, but aren't the limits of 'fair use' defined by case law? ... Do you...
Steve, Yes, there are limits to "fair use" as determined by law and precedent. For instance, I can write an essay about "Boom Town" and quote a few lines, but...
... Its possible there may be a technical difference between 'guides' to a corporate or group produced work and guides to a body of work by a single author...
Simon Bucher-Jones <sfwriterbj@...> wrote ... I don't see why. (Virgin have, of course, done a Pullman guide by Lance.) ... I don't see why her intent to...
... It's possible, though I'm not sure on what legal grounds that would stand -- it'll be interesting to watch the case unfold. ... I don't think you can do...
I remember that in one of the New Adventure novels Roz Forrester recalled a poster that was hung on the wall in the break room of her old Adjudicators' Lodge...
... Makes sense. I like the idea that while other NA writers were putting their mates in as extras, Lawrence listed his mate Phil as a dangerous psycopath. ...
It's in 'Christmas on a Rational Planet'--because when she's running away from the other Roz created by the Carnival Queen, she thinks of that poster, and that...
... Thank you. The good news is, you're absolutely right. The bad news is, when I looked it up to find the exact page and quote I discovered that my only...
Time to face the unpalatable truth. Doctor Who books in 2007 no longer have the slightly overweight, slightly balding late thirties man with an encyclopedic...