Reference Book Wars: Quarter Final 2

[SiHart]

Your choices this week are:











Vote now!

[Rob McCow]

It's partly nostalgia, but mostly the fabulous artwork inside - Cybermen wins it for me!

And I'm not just talking about the Skilleter (I think) stuff, I loved the schematic style drawings of the Cybermen designs throughout the years. Brilliant!

[Dirk Gently]

I'm with Steve on this. Cybermen is really informative.

[Dino]

It was so close this one between Cyberman and the paperback The Making of Doctor Who.
Cybermen has the better pictures...
But The Making of book has the better plot synopsis!
And also has the sentence "Terrence Dicks phones Barry Letts up. The Giant Robot has been a success. Doctor Who has been a success. Tom Baker has been a success."
I'm not sure that's word for word, my copy is well destroyed and lost so if I had to but one of them again, I'd pick The Making Of.
Although I remember a school friend having the Peter Davison book and letting me borrow it in secret during the morning break.
It was if he was giving me porn or drugs the way he was so anxious not to be outed as a Doctor Who fan!

[Wayne]

'Cybermen' is the deserved winner here, but i'm giving 'The Dalek Omnibus' a vote, for nostalgia reasons.

[Andrew Curnow]

Similarly, although Cybermen is likely to be a very worthy winner, I'm voting for The Making of Doctor Who. I never actually had that book, but my brother did and I can still vaguely remember it being like some kind of mythical gift from the gods in the build-up to him getting it. Remember this was even pre-Doctor Who Weekly, so every single word of it, all the stuff about old stories, about production of the show, all the photos, etc, were new to us. Just fantastic - and it has a lovely bit of Achilleos artwork on the front too!!

[Lord President]

Cybermen is stunning in almost every way!

[Dave Tudor]

It should be Cybermen, of course, as it's such a damned good, detailed, and well-researched book, but it's nostalgia which wins it for me here: I was going to go for The Monster Book, which just fascinated me when I got it for my tenth birthday, but in the end I voted for The Making Of A Television Series, which, even if it does feature the odd inaccuracy or two, offered a very interesting insight into the making of the show at the time, and thus, it was another of those books which I borrowed from the library on more than one occasion!