Doctor Who: The Adventures Before

i'm not so huge a Doctor Who fan that i've watched all, or even most, of the episodes these stories preclude; but they were still fun. The Boy and the Dalek, by Mark Griffiths. the 2nd Doctor, Victoria, and Jamie receive a distress signal and go to the aid of the only lifeform aboard a crash-landed c......more

A handful of the stories here aren't bad (the Tegan, Osgood and Borusa ones are good), but "prequels" is, at best, pushing it for the most part and, at worst, flat-out inaccurate.......more

While some of the stories are prequels in the vaguest sense, “The Adventures Before” still makes for quite an enjoyable read. The anthology takes a handful of the most well-known Doctor Who adventures, and imagines what happened right before the episode starts. What results is a collection of wildly......more

It's a great premise, but not all the stories live up to it -- ironically, the "guest" authors (Janet Fielding & Ingrid Oliver) are the ones who take the fullest advantage of the opportunity. But there rest fall between several less interesting stools, either too much unnecessary fanwank (the pre-Se......more

This short story collection has a fun concept that's mostly executed rather well, depicting new prequel events for eight Doctor Who episodes: The Daleks (First Doctor, 1963-1964), The Seeds of Doom (Fourth Doctor, 1976), Arc of Infinity (Fifth Doctor, 1983), The Five Doctors (Fifth Doctor, 1983), Ro......more