I have seen a few seconds of the film of this book starring David Bowie; the novel was published in 1963. It's a bleak picture of an almost-human alien from an undiscovered planet in our solar system, sent to Earth to try and save his people. He becomes an alcoholic, goes blind and gives up. Depressing.
September Books 10) The Man Who Fell To Earth
I have seen a few seconds of the film of this book starring David Bowie; the novel was published in 1963. It's a bleak picture of an almost-human alien from an undiscovered planet in our solar system, sent to Earth to try and save his people. He becomes an alcoholic, goes blind and gives up. Depressing.
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Doctor Who spinoffs: Prime Imperative, Xmas Files, Mind of Stone
Three spinoff books this evening, one featuring Erimem and two from the Lethbridge-Stewart sequence. Second paragraph of third chapter of Prime…
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The Massacre, by James Cooray Smith
The second of the Black Archive books analysing past stories of Doctor Who looks at The Massacre, a 1966 First Doctor story which has been lost from…
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Rose, by Jon Arnold
Given the very encouraging news that Russell T. Davies is returning to Doctor Who, it's by fortunate coincidence that today I am reviewing a…
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