BBC Books has just announced a special re-release of 11 Doctor Who books for the ongoing 50th anniversary celebration of the show. Each book features one of the eleven canonical Doctors, with all new totally beautiful cover art. The books will begin releasing in March. Check out the cover for the Mark Gatiss-penned (before he worked on the show!) 3rd Doctor adventure The Last of the Gaderene.
All of the covers have been given this vintage treatment, with an impressive line-up of authors.
Check out the covers below.
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Oh my! I need every one of these. Especially Festival of Death, which I’ve had the pleasure of reading in an earlier edition, and which was one of the most delightful Classic Who novels I’ve read to date. :D
3, 6, 8, 10, 2, 1, 5, 4, 7, 9, 11… aaaaa! They’re all out of order! *flail*
(I can’t be the only one who thought this…)
Nice covers, and another great idea to commemorate the 50th anniversary.
@2 They were put into chronological order by River Song! ;-)
Why is there one novelization (Remembrance of the Daleks) among the group? There are any number of Seventh Doctor novels, with quite a few stand-alones if one is trying to avoid The Cartmel Masterplan in one’s series of reissued novels.
@@@@@ Jago: It’s still one of the most influential pieces of Doctor Who fiction ever published, setting the tone for the Virgin novels and providing scads of Dalek lore. Plus, it’s still a cracking good read!
Also, I am sure that they wanted to include at least one Dalek book, and their choices are this, “Prisoner of the Daleks,” and “War of / Legacy of the Daleks,” which stinks.
I know I’ll probably get all the books anyway to have the entire set for the Anniversary, but are they all good reads?