Alrightreads: TV XVI

Paul Simpson and David Hughes, Farscape: The Illustrated Companion

2000 / Ebook / 160 pages / UK

***

A whole book on the lengthy genesis of Space Chase with more of that intriguing concept art would have been more interesting, but this suffices as your bogstandard episode guide.

Delilah S. Dawson, Joe R. Lansdale, Keith Lansdale, Elena Casagrande and Silvia Califano, The X-Files: Case Files

2018 / Ebook / 96 pages / USA/Italy

****

A pair of tall tales more fun than nearly all of the TV revival.

Juan Ortiz, Star Trek: The Next Generation – The Art of Juan Ortiz

2017 / Ebook / 208 pages / Puerto Rico

**

A good effort to graphically interpret every damned episode, but I didn't feel it.

Trevor Baxendale, Doctor Who: Decide Your Destiny – Claws of the Macra

2010 / Ebook / 144 pages / UK

**

I honestly expected more from a hack children's tie-in gamebook. Even the Sonic ones had a customisable character sheet. It's inevitably over quickly with that page count, and prone to inevitable errors, but it does at least give you that authentic sense of being the curious sucker in the opening minutes of an episode.

Phil Farrand, The Nitpicker's Guide for Deep Space Nine Trekkers

1996 / Paperback / 397 pages / USA

****

Having loved his Next Gen guide, I can't remember why I didn't snap this up the one time when I saw it in Oracle Books as a teenager, while the series was still going and steadily becoming my favourite incarnation, but my dithering was no doubt partly culpable in a Volume II never materialising.