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booknerd_therapist's review
5.0
I LOVED IT!!
I am a total Doctor Who nerd, and a Dalek fan to boot. At first I thought it was weird that I had such a liking for an enemy creature, but as it turns out, I'm not alone. The Dalek Handbook is everything and anything about Daleks, going all the way back to the classic Who (which, sadly, I have never gotten into). This book traces their wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey history from their home planet, into the Time War with the Time Lords, and their rebirth after falling through the void. Any questions you've ever had about Daleks will be answered in this book.
I also learned all kinds of interesting Dalek trivia -- for example, there are Dalek children's books (sadly only in the UK), and Doctor Who/Dalek stage shows. Different colored Daleks have different ranks. All very cool.
Also, the entire book is in color! Lots of fun Dalek pictures and graphics to check out.
I definitely recommend this book to Who fans!!
I am a total Doctor Who nerd, and a Dalek fan to boot. At first I thought it was weird that I had such a liking for an enemy creature, but as it turns out, I'm not alone. The Dalek Handbook is everything and anything about Daleks, going all the way back to the classic Who (which, sadly, I have never gotten into). This book traces their wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey history from their home planet, into the Time War with the Time Lords, and their rebirth after falling through the void. Any questions you've ever had about Daleks will be answered in this book.
I also learned all kinds of interesting Dalek trivia -- for example, there are Dalek children's books (sadly only in the UK), and Doctor Who/Dalek stage shows. Different colored Daleks have different ranks. All very cool.
Also, the entire book is in color! Lots of fun Dalek pictures and graphics to check out.
I definitely recommend this book to Who fans!!
fancyfroggie's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
5.0
this was really fun to annotate because it's 10 years old and there was more information from later in the show that i could add
nwhyte's review
3.0
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1867622.html
As guides to Who go, this is one of the better ones I have come across, with a main core narrative recounting the televised Dalek stories of Doctor Who (shamefully little space goven to The Power of the Daleks, but otherwise decent enough) and lots of brilliant little sidebars about how and why the Daleks have been brought to the screen, and also going through the non-televised Dalek material in great detail - particularly the comic strips and computer games, of which I must say I knew very little.
As guides to Who go, this is one of the better ones I have come across, with a main core narrative recounting the televised Dalek stories of Doctor Who (shamefully little space goven to The Power of the Daleks, but otherwise decent enough) and lots of brilliant little sidebars about how and why the Daleks have been brought to the screen, and also going through the non-televised Dalek material in great detail - particularly the comic strips and computer games, of which I must say I knew very little.
nwhyte's review against another edition
5.0
https://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2983726.html
This is really rather gorgeous - clearly rips off the British Museum's excellent podcast and book with similar titles, but a good idea is worth stealing imitating. Tribe and Goss list 100 important objects in the Whoniverse in chronoligical order (ie from the early universe to the far future, passing through the 1960s and 2000s en route), mentioned in TV stories from 1963 to 2012; each entry recapitulates the story or stories in which the particular object appears, but then also looks at other stories with similar themes (eg space arks) and even at sources of inspiration for the originating writers. The whole thing is beautifully illustrated. Definitely at the top end of the Doctor Who reference book range.
This is really rather gorgeous - clearly rips off the British Museum's excellent podcast and book with similar titles, but a good idea is worth stealing imitating. Tribe and Goss list 100 important objects in the Whoniverse in chronoligical order (ie from the early universe to the far future, passing through the 1960s and 2000s en route), mentioned in TV stories from 1963 to 2012; each entry recapitulates the story or stories in which the particular object appears, but then also looks at other stories with similar themes (eg space arks) and even at sources of inspiration for the originating writers. The whole thing is beautifully illustrated. Definitely at the top end of the Doctor Who reference book range.
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