Apparently at some point in the BBC Eight Doctor novels it was 'destroyed.' I kind of hope that somebody pissed President Romana off one too many times and she pushed the button.
I have no friggin' idea. But once the new series starts, I'm sure there will be thousands of happily flaming fanboys wrestling with that very question.
Haven't seen either book here (our local generally has 1 BBC paperback and 1 Telos novella). Usually get stuff used off of Amazon and eBay. There are also e-books on the BBC site now, which makes me happy as one of the chosen titles now goes for around $150.
I read the entire run of Virgin Dr. Who books... let me rephrase that, I read the entire run of Dr. Who books published by Virgin, but once the rights reverted to the BBC, I felt the books became very stodgy (having lost a lot of the fun feeling that *anything* could happen) and so stopped reading. Did they get better? ;)
The fanboys I know are still wrestling with the validity of Eighth Doctor movie (fer instance, is Dr. Who really half-human (ick! no!) or was he just being all manic and wacky when he said that?) so I'm sure the book-canon question will be wrestled with... even unto "Are only the BBC books canon or are the Virgin ones also valid?"
Near as I can tell, from reading at random, they're all over the highway, from freakin' brilliant to Bring Me the Head of Terrance Dicks. I'm still catching up on the Virgin line before I tackle them in-depth.
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Date: 2004-01-16 02:20 pm (UTC)How much expanded Doctorverse is canon?
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Date: 2004-01-16 02:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-16 02:36 pm (UTC)I have a hard enough time trying to figure out what to buy my dad. (He grew up on the show. I just like Daleks.)
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There's a nice coffee table book out now that he might like. I haven't seen inside it.
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Date: 2004-01-16 03:02 pm (UTC)Did you see 2002's Dalek Survival Guide? That was hilarious.
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Date: 2004-01-16 03:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-16 02:48 pm (UTC)I read the entire run of Virgin Dr. Who books... let me rephrase that, I read the entire run of Dr. Who books published by Virgin, but once the rights reverted to the BBC, I felt the books became very stodgy (having lost a lot of the fun feeling that *anything* could happen) and so stopped reading. Did they get better? ;)
The fanboys I know are still wrestling with the validity of Eighth Doctor movie (fer instance, is Dr. Who really half-human (ick! no!) or was he just being all manic and wacky when he said that?) so I'm sure the book-canon question will be wrestled with... even unto "Are only the BBC books canon or are the Virgin ones also valid?"
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Date: 2004-01-16 03:03 pm (UTC)