Doctor Who - The Wheel of Ice by Stephen Baxter

We profile the artists, RICHARD JENNINGS, ERIC EDEN and RON TURNER while Tat Wood puts the strips in context with a detailed examination of Dalekmania in general horror author STEPHEN LAWS and Doctor Who historian JEREMY BENTHAM remember growing up during those exciting years plus MATTHEW SWEET on TV Comic and DAVID QUANTICK reflecting on canon. Prolific science fiction author STEPHEN BAXTER (The Massacre of Mankind Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice), together with ALAN STEVENS and FIONA MOORE (authors of The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guides to Blake’s 7/The Prisoner/Battlestar Galactica), lead us through an in-depth analysis of these extraordinary Dalek adventures 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.We’ve got a whole host of articles and strips celebrating the legendary Dalek strip in TV Century 21 and its close cousins, the stories and strips in the various Dalek annuals featured across a whopping volume of 208 pages. “A return to epic adventure.”-SFcrowsnest takes full advantage of the limitless scale and budget afforded by the reader’s imagination.”- Blogtor Who “Baxter creates a near pitch-perfect evocation of Team TARDIS. “Baxter has created almost the perfect Doctor Who novel: it stays true to the era in which it is set it’s understandable for an intelligent child but not dumbed down for adults it feels like something we could have seen on TV, even though the production designer would have had a heart attack and-most importantly-it never feels clichéd or corny.It works as good Doctor Who. “Baxter nails one of the basic elements of any book like this one, capturing the voices of his three main characters with such precision that Troughton is almost audible in the Doctor’s lines.”- The A.V. “A master of the genre tackles the Time Lord with great results.”- Sci-Fi Bulletin He has also published over 100 sf short stories, several of which have won prizes. His books have won several awards including the Philip K Dick Award, the John Campbell Memorial Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, the Kurd Lasswitz Award (Germany) and the Seiun Award (Japan) and have been nominated for several others, including the Arthur C Clarke Award, the Hugo Award and Locus awards. His science fiction novels have been published in the UK, the US, and in many other countries including Germany, Japan, France.

He has been a full-time author since 1995 and is currently Vice-President of the British Science Fiction Association. His first professionally published short story appeared in 1987. He’s a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society. He holds degrees in mathematics, from Cambridge University engineering, from Southampton University and business administration, from Henley Management College. Stephen Baxter was born in Liverpool, England, in 1957.

Doctor Who - The Wheel of Ice by Stephen Baxter