Science Fiction

In About Time, the whole of Doctor Who is examined through the lens of the real-world social and political changes as well as ongoing developments in television production that influenced the series in ways big and small over the course of a generation. Armed with these guidebooks, readers will be able to cast their minds back to 1975, 1982, 2005 and other years to best appreciate the series' content and character.

Volume 8 of this series focuses on Series 3 (2007) of the revamped Doctor Who starring David Tennant, as well as the Christmas special Voyage of the Damned and the animated story The Infinite Quest. Essays in this volume include: "Why Weren't We Bovvered?", "How Messed-Up Can Narrative Get?", "Which are the Most Over-Specialised Daleks?", and "Is Kylie from Planet Zog?"

The mists make it easy to hide, if hiding is what you want, and even at the best of times reality there seems to shift. A gray man moves elegantly through the mists, leaving bodies in his wake, so that a tide of absences alerts Laney to his presence. A boy named Silencio does not speak, but flies through webs of cyber-information in search of the one object that has seized his imagination. And Rei Toi, the Japanese Idoru, continues her study of all things human. She herself is not human, not quite, but she's working on it. And in the mists of San Francisco, at this rare moment in history, who is to say what is or is not impossible...

In the year 2929, Earth is finally recovering from the devastating effects of years of pollution brought on by the human race that nearly wiped out all life on the planet.

Nineteen-year-old Lance lives as a hunter in the last surviving human colony: Community: 1049. With starvation imminent, on top of a divide between the people of Community: 1049, Lance does the unthinkable and goes beyond the boundaries of his people's hunting grounds despite the dangers constantly being brought up by the trio of men leading the colony: the Elders. Upon doing so, Lance discovers that not only is there more to his world than he originally thought, but that there are dangers worse than what he faces at home. When those dangers follow him back home, it threatens not only the existence of his people but also threatens the lives of his friends and family. Lance is forced to do the unthinkable in order to keep his loved ones alive, things that could turn him into the very thing he is trying to protect his loved ones from in the first place.

When a virus threatens to destroy one of the founding planets of the alliance, and billions of people throughout the quadrant, it is up to the crew of the Heaven and a team of scientists to go to a small planet on the far side of the galaxy and manipulate the lifeforms there in order to save their world. In their way; an unknown environment, hostile aliens and morality!