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98197
... The ... Even though the last of those listed is an explicit parody of "Alien Bodies"? AJB...
andrewjbrook
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Mar 1, 2009
9:47 am
98198
... sales in the process. I can't say I have that much faith that they're going to respond sensibly now. ... I'd be interested to know what the difference in...
andrewjbrook
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Mar 1, 2009
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98199
... wrote: <snip> ... about the DS9 ones, which for a moment seemed to promise an NA-like direction... but then they bottled it and they're just like all the ...
andrewjbrook
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Mar 1, 2009
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98200
... If The Tomorrow Windows was just a parody of Alien Bodies it would be pretty much worthless. It works because it stands on its own as an original story....
Wesley Osam
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Mar 1, 2009
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98201
... Don't confuse an ongoing storyline with an (horrible word) 'arc'. ... But the story did continue on from the book before. Usually, anyway....
Steven Kitson
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Mar 1, 2009
2:25 pm
98202
... Um ... this feels like a post from several years ago. The show has ramped up the visits to alien planets. It eased the audience into it. Yes, the alien ...
Lance Parkin
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Mar 1, 2009
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98203
Even when you don't count the regular cast, New Who has never done a story without humans in it. Not humanoid - human. There are good creative reasons for...
Jonn Elledge
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Mar 1, 2009
2:48 pm
98204
... Not a factor for the books, of course. I think the niche the books could comfortably slot into is stuff that you just couldn't do on TV. Alien planets fit ...
Lance Parkin
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Mar 1, 2009
2:49 pm
98205
... Well, that's only true of the second story if you count Cassandra as human. Lance...
Lance Parkin
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Mar 1, 2009
2:55 pm
98206

Yes... that does bugger my case, rather, doesn't it? 
Rephrase: New Who has never done a story that doesn't have a direct connection to planet Earth....
Jonn Elledge
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Mar 1, 2009
3:19 pm
98207
... From: "Wesley Osam" <wesley@...> To: <Jade_Pagoda@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 7:32 AM Subject: Re: [JP] Missing...
John Seavey
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Mar 1, 2009
4:01 pm
98208
... Indeed. A number of the books (The Eyeless included) don't have a direct connection to planet Earth. Lance...
Lance Parkin
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Mar 1, 2009
4:12 pm
98209
Nah, it would just get the Mill another award. That or censored like that Star Trek episode 'Miri'. ... could ... than...
Adrian Middleton
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Mar 1, 2009
8:31 pm
98210
... If you want to open this up to the rest of fiction, then Newton's Wake has to take its place at the end of an extremely long queue of other books I want to...
Paul Harman
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Mar 2, 2009
10:13 am
98211
... I don't know that the appetite is there, that's my point. An interesting interview with the Dark Horse Star Wars editor last week on Newsarama: he said...
Lance Parkin
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Mar 2, 2009
1:51 pm
98212
... From: Lance Parkin To: Jade_Pagoda@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 12:51 AM Subject: {Disarmed} Re: [JP] Missing Adventures, New Adventures...
Scott Sherritt
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Mar 2, 2009
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98213
... <snip> ... be ... Ah, here we must begin to disagree, because that's pretty much what I felt about it when I read it. (At the very least, Tony Benn in "No...
andrewjbrook
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Mar 3, 2009
7:39 pm
98214
... Could you explain how it's a parody of 'Alien Bodies'? Because it went right over my head....
Steven Kitson
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Mar 3, 2009
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98215
... As far as I remember, at peak the NAs were selling over 20k. The 8DAs ended near 10k, I believe. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Henry...
Henry Potts
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Mar 3, 2009
9:02 pm
98216
... there". < ... Without testing the appetite, you're right. But there was an appetite for around 10,000 adult-oriented books in 2005, and there'll be an ...
Adrian Middleton
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Mar 3, 2009
10:53 pm
98217
... 'Ended' is a little misleading - the EDAs 'ended' with The Gallifrey Chronicles, which was very easily my bestselling Doctor Who book, selling more than...
Lance Parkin
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Mar 3, 2009
11:31 pm
98218
... Good lord, Huff is still here, where's Nonsense? My but you do get brave when you think you get the last word. I signed off that "debate" because all of...
tardieu13
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Mar 4, 2009
1:14 am
98219
... Some people have talked about it, or imagine that we're going to get Past Doctor books just like the old PDAs, or that the NSAs will change radically. ...
Lance Parkin
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Mar 4, 2009
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98220
... Two reasons - canon and continuity. When it came right down to it not too many people actually cared what happened to the 7th Doctor so many more liberties...
tardieu13
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Mar 4, 2009
1:38 am
98221
... lol - brave? What's brave got to do with it? I'm repeating what I said before, dear boy. I know from experience on JP that keeping up is a struggle for...
Stuart Douglas
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Mar 4, 2009
6:46 am
98222
... Ah, my mistake. That came out shortly after the TV series had re-started, didn't it? Prior to the end and the resurgence of interest with the new TV...
Henry Potts
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Mar 4, 2009
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98223
I love the part where you say name one year with more diversity and then immediately name a year that did so. I'd also throw in City of the Dead through Camera...
Jonathan Dennis
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Mar 4, 2009
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98224
... That means nothing, though. I was one of those 10,000, and I'm not interested now. And without testing the appetite, you have no idea how many are like me....
Steven Kitson
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Mar 4, 2009
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98225
I am beginning to feel nostalgic about the virgin new adventure books, i was 10 when they first came out in 1991 when the 7th dr was still on tv in australia...
Charlotte Lucy Clarke
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Mar 4, 2009
11:10 am
98226
... [...] ... Not that I know of. The MAs always sold as well as the NAs. The 8DAs and PDAs seemed to have more variable sales, but I can't recall hearing that...
Henry Potts
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