Simon Guerrier and Marek Kukula's The Scientific Secrets Of Doctor Who is well worth a look, says Patrick...
One of the quotes The Scientific Secrets Of Doctor Who chooses to open with is said by the Fourth Doctor's sidekick Leela in 1977's Horror Of Fang Rock: "I, too, used to believe in magic, but the Doctor has taught me about science. It is better to believe in science". And while it is fundamentally true, it doesn't quite hold water when you look at Doctor Who's relationship with science over the years.
The earlier seasons, particularly the Hartnell/Troughton monochrome years, tried to root explanations in science - or the closest thing to it - while the more recent series starring Peter Capaldi's cantankerous incarnation asked us to suspend disbelief most of the time (In The Forest Of The Night, though underappreciated, defied basic science). Lately, Doctor Who...
One of the quotes The Scientific Secrets Of Doctor Who chooses to open with is said by the Fourth Doctor's sidekick Leela in 1977's Horror Of Fang Rock: "I, too, used to believe in magic, but the Doctor has taught me about science. It is better to believe in science". And while it is fundamentally true, it doesn't quite hold water when you look at Doctor Who's relationship with science over the years.
The earlier seasons, particularly the Hartnell/Troughton monochrome years, tried to root explanations in science - or the closest thing to it - while the more recent series starring Peter Capaldi's cantankerous incarnation asked us to suspend disbelief most of the time (In The Forest Of The Night, though underappreciated, defied basic science). Lately, Doctor Who...
- 7/6/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Tony Jones is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.
Thursday the 4th of June saw Simon Guerrier and Dr Marek Kukula launch their new book The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who with a book signing at London’s Forbidden Planet. The book mixes science with a range of short stories and authors Jonathan Morris, Jenny Colgan and Andrew Smith were on hand to offer support with the...
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Thursday the 4th of June saw Simon Guerrier and Dr Marek Kukula launch their new book The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who with a book signing at London’s Forbidden Planet. The book mixes science with a range of short stories and authors Jonathan Morris, Jenny Colgan and Andrew Smith were on hand to offer support with the...
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- 6/13/2015
- by Tony Jones
- Kasterborous.com
Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.
Coming soon from BBC Books is The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who “the first official guide to the science of Doctor Who” written by novelist Simon Guerrier and Dr Marek Kukula, the Public Astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. But what’s it all about? And just how are fiction and non-fiction colliding? Doctor Who stories are...
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Coming soon from BBC Books is The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who “the first official guide to the science of Doctor Who” written by novelist Simon Guerrier and Dr Marek Kukula, the Public Astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. But what’s it all about? And just how are fiction and non-fiction colliding? Doctor Who stories are...
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- 5/8/2015
- by Christian Cawley
- Kasterborous.com
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