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Simon Guerrier

Auteur de The Pirate Loop

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Œuvres de Simon Guerrier

The Pirate Loop (2007) 377 exemplaires
The Slitheen Excursion (2009) 209 exemplaires
The Time Travellers (2005) 132 exemplaires
The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who (2015) 122 exemplaires
Being Human: The Road (2010) 50 exemplaires
Short Trips: Time Signature (2006) 48 exemplaires
Short Trips: Dalek Empire (2006) — Directeur de publication — 41 exemplaires
Shadow of Death (2013) 38 exemplaires
Fire and Water (2009) 34 exemplaires
A Life Worth Living (2005) — Directeur de publication — 32 exemplaires
The Key 2 Time: The Judgement of Isskar (2009) — Auteur — 31 exemplaires
Irregularity (2014) — Contributeur — 30 exemplaires
Something Changed (2006) 29 exemplaires
The Settling (2006) — Auteur — 26 exemplaires
Home Truths (2008) 26 exemplaires
The Drowned World (2009) 26 exemplaires
The Key 2 Time: The Prisoner's Dilemma (2009) — Auteur — 25 exemplaires
The Guardian of the Solar System (2010) 24 exemplaires
Doctor Who: The Boxset (2008) 22 exemplaires
The Perpetual Bond (2011) 22 exemplaires
Shadow of the Past (2010) 21 exemplaires
The Cold Equations (2011) 20 exemplaires
Re:Collections: The Best of Short Trips (2009) — Contributeur — 19 exemplaires
The First Wave (2011) 18 exemplaires
The Library of Alexandria (2013) 17 exemplaires
The Wake (2007) 17 exemplaires
Summer of Love (2005) 17 exemplaires
The Anachronauts (2012) 16 exemplaires
The Empty House (2012) 16 exemplaires
Graceless: Alone in Time and Space... (2010) — Auteur — 16 exemplaires
The Companion Chronicles: The First Doctor, Volume One (2015) — Auteur — 15 exemplaires
The Memory Cheats (2011) 15 exemplaires
The War to End All Wars (2014) 15 exemplaires
The School (2006) 14 exemplaires
The Mega (Doctor Who: The Lost Stories) (2013) — Auteur — 13 exemplaires
The Uncertainty Principle (2012) 11 exemplaires
Doctor Who: Paper Dolls (2017) 11 exemplaires
The Sontarans (2017) — Auteur — 10 exemplaires
The Black Hole (2015) — Auteur — 10 exemplaires
The Yes Men (2015) — Auteur — 9 exemplaires
Time War: Susan's War (2020) — Auteur — 9 exemplaires
Dark Shadows: The Creeping Fog (2011) 9 exemplaires
Rebel, Traitor, Liberator (2008) — Auteur — 9 exemplaires
The Two Irises (2009) 8 exemplaires
Shadow of the Daleks 1 (2020) — Auteur — 7 exemplaires
The end of the end (2016) 6 exemplaires
The Outliers (2017) — Auteur — 5 exemplaires
Time Lord Victorious: Master Thief / Lesser Evils (2020) — Auteur — 5 exemplaires
Doctor Who: The Daily Doctor (2023) 5 exemplaires
The Siege (Robin Hood) (2009) 4 exemplaires
Many Happy Returns 3 exemplaires
The Worlds of Blake's 7 - - Allies and Enemies [MP3] (2023) — Auteur — 3 exemplaires
The Home Guard (2019) 2 exemplaires
The Coup 1 exemplaire
The Coup / Silver Lining (2004) 1 exemplaire
Lesser Evils 1 exemplaire
The Switching (2002) 1 exemplaire
The Uncertain Shore 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

Doctor Who: The Target Storybook (2019) — Auteur — 68 exemplaires
Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury (2004) — Contributeur — 60 exemplaires
Short Trips: Zodiac (2002) — Contributeur — 58 exemplaires
Short Trips: Companions (2003) — Contributeur — 58 exemplaires
Short Trips: Steel Skies (2003) — Contributeur — 52 exemplaires
Short Trips: The Muses (2003) — Contributeur — 50 exemplaires
Short Trips: Past Tense (2004) — Contributeur — 50 exemplaires
Short Trips: Monsters (2004) — Contributeur — 49 exemplaires
Short Trips: A Day in the Life (2005) — Contributeur — 48 exemplaires
Short Trips: The Centenarian (2006) — Contributeur — 46 exemplaires
Life During Wartime (2003) — Contributeur; Contributeur — 45 exemplaires
Short Trips: Snapshots (2007) — Contributeur — 38 exemplaires
Short Trips: Defining Patterns (2008) — Contributeur — 31 exemplaires
Parallel Lives (2006) — Directeur de publication — 30 exemplaires
Short Trips: Christmas Around the World (2008) — Contributeur — 27 exemplaires
Short Trips: Indefinable Magic (2009) — Contributeur — 22 exemplaires
Present Danger (2010) — Contributeur — 20 exemplaires
Cinema Futura (2010) — Contributeur — 19 exemplaires
Short Trips - Volume II (2011) — Contributeur — 14 exemplaires
Doctor Who: Classic Doctors New Monsters, Volume Two (2017) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
Uncanny Magazine Issue 9: March/April 2016 (2016) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
Bernice Summerfield: The Story So Far, Volume One (2018) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
The Court Jester: The Wife in Space, Volume 7 (2018) — Avant-propos — 6 exemplaires
Destiny of the Doctor: The Complete Series (2013) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles (2018) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
In Time (2018) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Iris Wildthyme: The Complete Series Two (2009) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
In●Vision: Vengeance of Varos (1998) — Contributor "Angel's Advocater" — 2 exemplaires
In●Vision: Revelation of the Daleks (1999) — Contributor "Angel's Advocate" — 2 exemplaires
In●Vision: The Trial of a Time Lord — Parts 1 - 4 — The Mysterious Planet (1999) — Contributor "Great Opening" — 2 exemplaires
In●Vision: Silver Nemesis (2001) — Contributor "Flawed Gem" — 2 exemplaires
In●Vision: The Legacy (2003) — xxxOTHERxxx — 1 exemplaire

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Date de naissance
1976-06-24
Sexe
male
Nationalité
UK
Lieu de naissance
Romsey, Hampshire, England, UK
Relations
Challis, Debbie (wife)

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https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/david-whitaker-in-an-exciting-adventure-with-tel...

We got a lot fewer books last year to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of Doctor Who than we did for the fiftieth in 2013. But this really makes up for it. David Whitaker was one of the crucial figures in early Doctor Who – script editor at the very beginning of the show, author of the first Doctor Who books, writer of eight Old Who stories; but dead at 51 in 1980, and so missing the extra lease of life given to many former Who creators by the explosion in fan activity later that decade.

Simon Guerrier has done a great job of telling the story of those 51 years in 413 pages. He complains near the beginning that most previous published accounts supposedly (and even actually) by Whitaker about his own life have turned out on investigation to be substantially untrue; details are wrong, achievements exaggerated, essentially the fiction-writer’s skill deployed to his own autobiography.

But Guerrier has mined the archives, talked to relatives (though again, a lot of them died young too), and dug through the assembled Who lore of the past six decades to paint a sober and intriguing picture of a man who knew he wanted to write but didn’t quite know how to do that for a living. He also brings in some vivid social research about Whitaker’s family background and his first marriage, and looks at how the BBC in the 1960s struggled to set up a career structure that adequately rewarded creativity. (I suspect it hasn’t quite got there even today.)

The documentary and memory trail goes a bit thin at the moment when Whitaker and his first wife went to Australia, and he came back a couple of years later with his second wife. It’s also a bit scanty at the very end, when his health broke down (probably from too much smoking) and he was unable to get work. But this is understandable, and doesn’t detract from the attractiveness of the book.

Myself, I was struck on reading it by how little people actually recall about Whitaker. Accounts of meetings and conversations where we know he must have been present just don’t mention him, and the drama doc An Adventure in Space and Time wrote him out of history completely. It reminded me of the protagonist of Bob Shaw’s A Wreath of Stars, who considered himself the human equivalent of a neutrino, a particle able to travel through the Earth without disturbing any other particle. When he went fully freelance at what turned out to be the end of his life, I got the sense that he couldn’t get work because very few people remembered who he was. Awfully sad.

Anyway, this is strongly recommended just as a good read about a creator who had a big success in his mid-thirties and was never quite able to find the magic ingredients again.
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nwhyte | Mar 24, 2024 |
Dalek Empire is a 2001-08 audio spin-off series from Big Finish (its first, actually, I believe), chronicling a Dalek invasion of the galaxy, focusing on the humans caught up in it when the Doctor's not around to save anyone. I picked it up in a sale a few years ago, but have never actually gotten around to listening to it; there is always too much new Big Finish to listen to first! The range engendered a tie-in of its own, the sixteenth volume of Big Finish's Short Trips series of anthologies, which was released between the third and fourth series.

I haven't heard Dalek Empire, but I know the broad outlines of the plot; probably there's stuff here I'd get better having heard it, but I felt okay for the most part. Most of the stories here fall into two buckets. The first is made up of character studies of Dalek Empire's three human leads: "Kalendorf" by Nicholas Briggs and "Alby" and "Suz" by Sharon Gosling. "Kalendorf" takes place at the very beginning of the series, during the initial Dalek assault, while "Alby" and "Suz" take place later on, delving into the thoughts of those characters. They were all decent stories (I liked the horror of the Daleks in "Kalendorf") best, but also the ones that I suspect would most benefit from actually having heard the series.

Most of the rest of the stories are side stories to the Dalek invasion of the Milky Way, many of them including the Doctor in some capacity. But in these stories, he doesn't go around defeating dastardly plans; because the events of Dalek Empire already proceed without him, they're kind of what you might call "future historicals," featuring the Doctor on the fringes of future history, helping the little people, but not making any significant changes. My favorites among these included Ian Farrington's "Hide and Seek," where the third Doctor and Jo help a group of refugees evacuate; Farrington captures the Doctor and Jo particularly well.

The best of them as definitely Joseph Lidster's "Natalie's Diary," which is about a young woman named Natalie trying to stay alive during the Dalek assault on her planet, aided by the seventh Doctor, Ace, and Hex. As usual for Lidster, the strength of the story is in its characterization, as Natalie slowly discovers the hardness of the world she has come into. Ace and Hex aren't focal characters, but are deftly drawn, recalling one of Big Finish's best runs. The story is framed by a history student reading Natalie's diaries sometime later, which I think is set during the events of Dalek Empire III (when the Daleks return). The other ones are fine enough, though I found Ian Farrington's "Private Investigations" and Justin Richards's "Mutually Assured Survival" kind of pointless and dull.

There are two stories that break from this format. One is Simon Guerrier's "The Eighth Wonder of the World," which isn't a Dalek Empire tie-in at all, but a follow-up to the first Doctor serial The Daleks' Master Plan, featuring the sixth Doctor and Evelyn investigating what happened to a Dalek left behind in ancient Egypt during that adventure. Guerrier does his usual clever and interesting work, but it feels too fanciful in this context; Dalek Empire just isn't this kind of Dalek story.

The other is the volume's definitely standout, "Museum Peace" by James Swallow. Long after the events of Dalek Empire II: Dalek War, Kalendorf is retired and visiting a museum devoted to the Dalek War, contemplating how time has moved on. The Doctor is there, too (who he already knows; more on that in a minute), in his eighth incarnation, contemplating some terrible action against the Daleks. It's a deftly written, powerful story about grief and anger and moving on. Clearly when it was written, Swallow intended the eighth Doctor to be thinking about obliterating the Daleks, though subsequent revelations in "The Day of the Doctor" mean that can't be the case. But it holds up regardless—you can imagine the Doctor is at some terrible low during the Time War. (Or, in a very tenuous pet theory of mine, it takes place between To the Death and Dark Eyes, with the Doctor driven to despair.)

The book also includes the script for The Return of the Daleks, a 2006 audio drama that crossed the seventh Doctor into the events of Dalek Empire, as well as a sequel to the tv story Planet of the Daleks. (Hence, how Kalendorf knows the Doctor.) It wasn't a particularly great audio (I have actually heard it; it was a freebie for subscribers to Big Finish's main Doctor Who range), and reading a script is honestly never really that interesting. It feels like it's there to pad the book out—a whole forty pages! Given how many authors contribute two stories, one wonders if the volume was put together in a hurry.

(Despite the cover, the first, second, fourth, and fifth Doctors do not appear in this book.)
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Stevil2001 | 1 autre critique | Jan 27, 2024 |
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-evil-of-the-daleks-by-simon-guerrier-and-joh...

This really is one of the best Black Archive volumes that I have read so far, and also I think the longest. Some earlier ones went rather far into the literary origins of particular Who stories, perhaps because there wasn’t all that much to say about the actual stories in question. Guerrier looks at that a little, but doesn’t waste too much time on it, and is much more interested in telling the story of Evil of the Daleks – both production and reception – as a social process, carried out in real time by real people. As I’ve done before, I’ll list out the (few and long) chapters in summary:

London, 20 July 1966: Looks at the difficulties of analysing a story that is mostly lost, and at the production background and influences on the fist episode and a half (no woman appears in the 1966 scenes; originally Ben and Polly would have been in the first two episodes, and the Samantha Briggs character from The Faceless Ones would have been the new companion);
Outside Canterbury, 2 to 3 June 1866: looks at the Victorian setting of the middle episodes and Victoriana in general, but also at the character of Maxtible (Marius Goring, the lead guest star, had a fixation with Henry Irving and his play The Bells, which is one of the artistic source for Evil) and what we learn about the Doctor;
Skaro: Date Unknown: goes into great detail on the Daleks and on what Terry Nation and David Whitaker might have argued about, given that Whitaker arguably had an equal share in their creation; and
Earth, 1967-2017: looking at the reception and preservation of the story over fifty years – lot of deep research into how and where the scripts were preserved, featuring in places my old friend Rebecca Levene; the Beatles’ song Paperback Writer was played during the original cafe scene in the first episode, but has been dropped from releases of the sound track for copyright reasons; new photographs and off-air recordings keep coming to light.
Guerrier ends by appealing for the animation of the missing episodes which has since been accomplished, but also (as usual for these books) has a decent bibliography. It’s a really solid piece of work.

My one complaint is that yet again the footnotes have been botched on the epub version. Clicking on any of the hundreds of footnote links in the text takes you to the start of the footnote section rather than to the relevant footnote itself. When you have found your footnote and ty to click back to where you were in the main text, you are taken instead to the start of the relevant chapter – and these are long chapters. No blame attaches to the author for this, but really, publisher, this is not rocket science and you got it right in several of the others.
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nwhyte | May 15, 2022 |

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