UPDATED NEWS (13.08.2010 11:35) - Author, Michael Moorcock will (subject to change) be interviewed on Sunday 15 August as part of BBC RADIO FOUR's BROADCASTING HOUSE programme from 09:00. He will be discussing the forthcoming SERIES 5 tie-in novel, DOCTOR WHO - THE COMING OF THE TERRAPHILES.
The novel will be adapted as an unabridged reading by BBC AUDIO for a 7 October 2010 release.
BBC BOOKS has acquired acclaimed writer, Michael Moorcock (listed by THE TIMES as one of Britain's top 50 creative writers since 1945) to write DOCTOR WHO - THE COMING OF THE TERRAPHILES, featuring the 11th Doctor and Amy Pond, and the author's own characters Captain Cornelius and range of pirates.
The 326 page hardback (RRP £16.99) will be published on 28 October 2010, and the British-born Texas-based author will be signing copies of the novel at FORBIDDEN PLANET's flagship store on 21 October (at 18:00).
Note in the diary! Or a pre-order a signed copy direct from FORBIDDEN PLANET (£14.99).
In association with FORBIDDEN PLANET, eyeofhorus.org.uk will be launching a free-to-enter competition to win an AUTHOR SIGNED COPY of the novel. Details soon.
What Moorcock has said about the novel pre-completion:
Editor Justin seems to like it a lot. Now we're going over the manuscript mostly checking for when Doctor or Amy aren't quite in character (remember I wrote it from a few hints and had no chance to see the Matt and Karen episodes (saw one just before I delivered it) and no hint as to what is becoming intriguing development which also has resonances with my own Dream Quest stuff.
Then it has to be approved by BBC Cardiff... Not a lot of time to get it into production now! But it should go off to Cardiff next week. I need to do some expansion exactly where my instincts told me to expand (but I was already 20,000 words over contract expectations).
And after completion:
I'd try to give the reader something they couldn't get on TV which is what Brian Aldiss called 'wide screen baroque' -- big budget space opera plus comedy in this case. But it ties the 'whoniverse' into the multiverse and so on and it does have more than one space pirate... I wanted to expand the range rather than play off existing strengths. I really do think that the best recent scripts are the best Dr W we've ever had.
It remains to be seen what the editors and 'Cardiff' think of this one. It's aimed at grown ups rather than 'eight-year-olds' who are always being mentioned in interviews. But grown-ups who enjoy a bit of fun.
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