Matters Whovian and Such

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Is the Timewyrm series of the NA's worth reading? No, really, it's a serious question.

On a related note I just tried to tackle the NA No Future, only to realize that I'm missing a whack of context. Paul Cornell's doing his best to provide it without making it all overbearing, and yay for that, but I'm a bit confused and a confused reader is rarely a happy one. So I've put it down and started the Missing Adventure Goth Opera by the same author, which shows every sign of being good sillyfun (I mean that in the 'entertaining diversion' sense, not the 'Dave Stone on Jolt cola' sense)

I've been looking at fares for Gallifrey One. Looks like it'll be about $120 r/t with taxes and all. I'll take that over riding down with iamradar and pals - not that I don't like those pals (far from it) but I get car-sick on long trips, I also get bored off my nut in any journey more than an hour's duration and, finally, I like whoosing around on jets. So there.

I'm definitely not going to Chicago TARDIS, as it turns out my father's family does want to do something for the holiday, after all. I'm a skosh disappointed, but I'll live. Family's more important.

And, on a non-Whovian (but still convention-related) note, I definitely will be at SiliCon. Radar and I will be hosting Pancho's Crosstime Cantina again. If any of y'all would like to help out behind the bar and/or checking IDs, that would be grand - although I can't give you much in return aside from a free drink-all-night token...

Comments

[doctor-toc.livejournal.com]

The Timewyrm series was the first of the NA arcs, and it shows. It's still fun in parts, but it's before the authors realised how to work together or what they could really do with the series. It's worth reading if you're a completist, or from a historical perspective, but there are really so many other worthy entries in the NA canon that deserve reading first.

[glinda-penguin.livejournal.com]

I would say yes, if only for a this is where it started perspective. The Timewyrm arc is sort of the bridge between the Target novellisations of the end of 7's tenor and the later NAs...it sort of marks the transition period stylistically and narratively. They're more enjoyable I think if you take them on their own as I don't think they fit in as well with what the NAs would later become. I'm a bit odd about the NAs though because I read them out of order and whereas Bernice worked for me the place they took Ace never did. But yes, read them, if only for Saul...