Stephen Baxter writing a Doctor Who novel!

[SiHart]

Sci fi author, Stephen Baxter is writing a Doctor Who novel next year, the most recent SFX Doctor Who special reveals.

Apparently it's a Second Doctor story.

Si xx

[Rob McCow]

Hah! He's always 'doing' something or other. Remember when he was going to write a Big Finish? Plus he's got a series of his own he's been working on.

I'll look forward to it if it does show up though!

[Jon Masters]

Sci fi author, Stephen Baxter is writing a Doctor Who novel next year, the most recent SFX Doctor Who special reveals.

Si xx

Is the SFX thing worth getting , Si ? I eyed it up in Sainsbury's this morning, but at £7.99 it would need to be pretty special to be better than a reduced DVD.

[Stuart Wallis]

Is Stephen Baxter any good? I'm especially cautious since Michael Moorcock's supposed to be good, and Stephen's supposed to be 'doing' a trilogy with Terry Pratchett about now as well, which doesn't sound like it's the best and most original idea in the world to me.

[Rob McCow]

Aside from a nice article on home-made Doctor Who memorabilia, there's nothing much exciting in the SFX special.

Stephen Baxter is a great sci-fi novelist with some fantastic big ideas. His characterisation is often a little sidelined, but the joy of Baxter are the concepts. He recently did a very good thriller about the whole world being slowly flooded (in the book Flood, well worth a read). He's done historical novels too and a series of books about a tribe of woolly mammoths (!) but his most groundbreaking work was his early sci-fi books such as 'Time' and 'Space'. My favourite of his novels was something else again, a book called 'Titan' which imagined how the first space mission to Mars would pan out if it was carried out in the next few decades. A very passionate and fascinating read.

[Stuart Wallis]

He's one of those authors I've heard generalisations said, and alas, there aren't enough hours in the day to read everyone. I think the only other project I'd heard him connected with was a sequel to The Time Machine.