But then, the Doctor’s holidays tend to turn out a bit like this. Featuring the Fourth Doctor as played by Tom Baker, City of Death is a novel by James Goss based on the Doctor Who story written by Douglas Adams under the pen-name David Agnew. City of Death is one of the best-loved serials in the show’s year history and was. "Based on the beloved Doctor Who episode of the same name by Douglas Adams, the hilarious and brilliant author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, comes City of Death "A nasty, savage race, the universe was glad to see the back of them " 4 billion BCE: The Jagaroth, the most powerful, vicious, and visually unappealing race in the universe disappears from existence.3/5(1). Completely delightful - this story was born in a convoluted way, first as a Doctor Who four-part story script by David Fisher, then picked up and finished off by Douglas Adams (with whom you may be familiar) and then produced and made into the serial City of Death with the 4th Doctor, and then made into this book by James Goss working from Douglas' script notes and directions from /5.
Well-known Whovian and tie-in writer James Goss will be adapting Adams' script for print. One of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams' many legacies is the classic Doctor Who. Goss has written three novelisations based on Fourth Doctor stories by Douglas Adams. The first two, City of Death () and The Pirate Planet () were based on the serials of the same titles, which had not been adapted for the original Target Books series. (An abridged edition of City of Death was released in under the classic Target. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Doctor Who Ser.: Doctor Who: City of Death by James Goss and Douglas Adams (, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!
Quite probably the most eagerly awaited Original Doctor Who TV Tie-in novel of all time, "City of Death" flatters to deceive. Author James Goss tries hard but often falls short of recreating Douglas Adams' unique style of writing, resorting to abstract and surreal waffle at times when Adams would have gone off at a tangent which then somehow seamlessly worked its way back into the on-going narrative. As BBC Books begins publishing Target style novelisations of Doctor Who stories that aired since , ‘City of Death’, being an older ‘classic’ Who serial, seems an odd choice, especially in the first batch of releases. Of course, it was one of only a few stories not to receive the target treatment. James Goss has adapted three Doctor Who stories by Douglas Adams for BBC Books (City of Death, The Pirate Planet, and The Krikkitmen). He's also written several original Doctor Who and Torchwood books. His novel #Haterz is in development as a motion picture. He's also written for the stage and the radio.
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