2001 / Ebook/audiobook / 211 pages
***
"Make Liantac Great Again." A bogstandard filler episode that gives everyone something to do and is true to character. The other couple of novels supposedly failed in that basic requirement.
Steven Cooper and Kevin Mahoney, Steven Moffat's Doctor Who 2012-2013: The Critical Fan's Guide to Matt Smith's Final Series (Unauthorized)
****
I enjoyed the excitable instant reactions, but could have done without the second opinions and their "of course" smart-arse referencing. It was more positive than I expected, no doubt partly for being caught in the anniversary fervour, but it was a welcome reminder after a decade's attrition that the tail end of this era was a bit better than I tend to remember. I'm looking forward to revisiting it through a child's eyes one day, when subjecting them to Daleks, Weeping Angels and the child actors from 'Nightmare in Silver' wouldn't constitute abuse.
2000 / Audiobook / 305 pages
***
From one of the authors of the non-fic Monster Book that educated teenage me about vampire lore, this fictional historical chronicle fills some gaps satisfyingly, and was another reminder that I should really watch Angel again.
2017 / Audiobook / 276 pages
****
I'm not as obsessive about the show as the introduction assumes, but it's always worth making the trip down memory lane, here via an Australian avenue. It was mainly appealing for its sensible cut-off point, and the approach of going in-depth only on select episodes makes sense so it can actually fit in a book.
2023 / Ecomics / 136 pages
**
We don't need no stinking Borg in our Deep Space Nine, we've got our own things. No one sounds right either, even accounting for mind control. But I liked the First Contact-referencing cover, once I finally noticed.
