Download Doctor Who: Time Trips Depicted By Cecelia Ahern Released As Text

is one of those times that I wish I could rate the book, as an object, separately from its contents.


Because this is one lovely hardback, Doublepage opening illustrations for each story, the dark blue edges of the pages, and of course the main draw of the hardback for those, like me, who'd already bought and read all or most of the individual stories as they were originally released as ebooks: the wraparound dust jacket, containing an additional, exclusive, heavily illustrated very short Twelve amp Clara story.


It's a gorgeous book, and while it took me a while to decide to buy it, because it wasn't cheap, I'd already bought and read all but one of the inside stories, and didn't really care for most of them.
But hey, pretty book and some "official" Twelve amp Clara in this excruciatingly long eightmonth wait between seriesandHow could I resist.


Anyway. I've rated amp reviewed most of the stories before, so I'm not going to bother doing it again, especially as I didn't reread them I'll just say that they ranged from "urgh, awful" to "pretty decent", with mostly "meh".
I'm glad to say that the one I hadn't read before, AntiHero by Stella Duffy a Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe story, was more towards the "pretty decent" end of that scale, being.
. well, basically a rather nice short story, even though it suffered from whatof DW short stories I've read in the last few years suffer from a good start, nicely building up the story, establishing the location and characters, rolling onwards at a nice pace, and then.
. . suddenly, the end. Blegh. I don't like short stories, really,

The dust jacket story is really very shortwords, maybe I didn't count it took me too much effort to just unwrap the cover and keep turning it around to find all the bits in the right order, but that was a lot of fun really! but yeah, it's definitely a short story, considering it has to fit inside a dust jacket with lots of illustrations but it was a cool little vignette and I enjoyed it.
You don't really lose much for not reading it, but I really don't regret getting the book for it.
I generally found the writing skilled and wellpaced, especially from the experienced novelists, but the science fiction itself was lack lustre and, in some cases, completely overlooked.


Stories like these focused too much on the fairytale aspect of storytelling Doctor Who.


Notable Stories

Into the Nowhere by Jenny T Colgan the Eden twist was buried well into the plot and the bone scraping was unsettling.


A Handful of Stardust by Jake Arnott this unfolded like a classic episode with a bigger budget and a crafty Master.


Loneliness of the Long Distance Time Traveller by Joanne Harris a story about a dying Doctor hasnt been done before and the last sentence is truly moving.
Im not always a big fan of short stories , but these were good to read after a very big slump in reading.

I felt the authors truly captured the doctor they were writing about,
Good for doctor who fans, A great collection by some really interesting authors, A few small editorial errors suggest it went to press quickly, I missed having an introduction or some indication of the intent or theme of the collection.
But the stories themselves are a fantastic bunch, Highly recommended for fans of the show and of the contributing authors as well, Lovely little collection of short stories, Great for fans of the show though a little bit hard to follow at times, This is an impressive collection of stories, all of them showcasing a great command of different eras, Doctors, companions, and characterizations.
There's a depth to many of these stories that outshines full length novels, especially "Into the Nowhere" by Jenny Colgan.
. . which might have a claim on the title of "best Doctor Who short story ever", In these pages you will find melancholy, surrealism, madness, and poignancy, All of these are handled with great skill by the authors, who are all writing for Doctors and companions they clearly love and more importantly clearly understand.
A deep delight from start to finish, “Doctor Who Time Trips” is a nicely illustrated very pleasant anthology of stories featuring various incarnations of The Doctor.
While the various items can be purchased and downloaded individually, this ebook anthology is excellent value and should give great pleasure to all fans of The Doctor.
Questo libro raccoglie diversi racconti sul Dottore anzi, sui Dottori, visto che spazia dal secondo al dodicesimo commissionati dalla BBC a autori di successo.


Le storie in sé sono di qualità altalenante, mediamente discrete ed è piacevole vedere le differenze tra i Dottori, o capire con chi si abbia a che fare ma spesso difettose nei finali.


Ma il punto di forza del libro è, . . il libro.
Bordi delle pagine neri, illustrazioni a doppia pagina prima di ogni storia, e la copertina origami con una storiella brevissima da ricostruire e leggere.

Nell'epoca degli ebook, questi per me devono essere i valori aggiunti dei libri cartacei, . . First story in the collection is really bad, The characterisation of the Doctor is a woeful mashup of Tennent and Smith, while the Doctor it supposedly contains is T Baker.
A must read for any Doctor Who fan, I have been watching the show since the first episode in, not that I remember much about that one.
I love the way the individual writers seem to effortlessly catch the spirit of the various Doctors and their companions.
It actually made me write a little piece of fan fiction as a writing exercise, which has been seen by very few people and will stay that way.
In particular, I loved the two Third Doctor stories, Trudi Canavans Salt of the Earth, and the beautiful prose of Joanne Harriss The Loneliness of the LongDistance Time Traveler.
Highly recommended to Whovians everywhere, Some of the stories missed their mark for me unfortunately, They just didn't seem to capture the essence of the Doctor in my opinion, Onlyof the stories rang true in my ears/head, Eight quite entertaining short stories with a range of different Doctors,

My personal favourite was the final story with the second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe.
I enjoyed this collection of short stories about the Doctor and his adventures, The variety of authors gave each story its own voice and feeling, It was also great to get a sampling of several different incarnations of the Doctor with different companions.
See my reviews for the single stories, Some are good, some not so much, But overall a good read for Doctor Who fans, Didn't really like this set of short stories and found them too long which meant that I was bored quite quickly and that is why it took me so long to finish.
Real mix in story quality, but always nice to see the more fantastical Who stories they're able to spin with words, rather than with a limited FX budget.
I'm going to go on a limb here and suggest that juuusssstttt maaayyyybbbbeeee the stories in Time Trips were the reject stories that didn't make it into theth Anniversary Collection.

Juuuuuusssssttttt maaaaayyyyyybbbbeeeeee the BBC shockingly realized that if you publish a hardcover book with gorgeous blueedged pages sprinkled with lovely illustrations snuggled cozily inside a dust jacket that includes ::gasp:: a hidden bonus story, people will give you money.


Pretty blue pages don't make the stories better, Ugh. Here's a breakdown:

"The Death Pit" by A, L. Kennedy Fourth Doctor: B
Almost funny, Fun fact: I recently discovered that A, L. wrote a full length novel based on this short story! Neat! The short story still doesn't make me wanna read it, though.
. . even if it had blue pages, . .

"Into the Nowhere" by Jenny Colgan Eleventh Doctor: B
Creepy, Weird. Doesn't quite get the Eleventh Doctor right, . .

"Keeping Up With the Joneses by Nick Harkaway Tenth Doctor: A
Clever and super fun to read.
Anything that feels like it could be a fun episode always works well as a DW short story.


"Salt of the Earth" by Trudi Canavan Third Doctor: D
Trudi Canavan owes meminutes of my life back.
Seriously Salt Menacing salt THAT was your big idea

"A Handful of Stardust" by Jake Arnott Sixth Doctor: C
After "Salt of the Earth," this story felt like A Tale of Two Cities

"The Bog Warrior" by Cecelia Ahern Tenth Doctor: D
Ahern somehow writes a story so uninteresting even the excitable Tenth Doctor seems like he's faking it.
Blah blah evil queen blah blah Cinderella blah blah magic shoe weapon blah blah blah

"The Loneliness of the LongDistance Time Traveller" by Joanne Harris Third Doctor: A
The BBC should repackage this damned book with JUST this story and a shtton of illustrations with it.
Harris beautifully captures the spirit in which the Doctor embraces death along with life, Unlike scary salt and bog monsters, Harris tries and succeeds in writing a fun story that actually means something.


"The AntiHero" by Stella Duffy Second Doctor: C
Sure, why not, This new hardback is the collected edition of theebook only Time Trips sories, not quite novella length, but weighty for short stories.


I had previously read these as they were released individually, but really wanted them hard copy too.
As it happened, I realised I had not read Stella Duffy's AntiHero, so it wasn't a completely indulgant purchase.


The other drtaw to buy this was the extra exclusive story, A long Way Down, by Jenny Colgan.
Which, in itself is a very brief, but fun story, certainly not of the length of the other tales what made this interesting further is that the story can only be read by removing and unfolding the dust jacket.

Totally charming and engaging!

The edition itself is nicely done, The previous collection of short stories of theth Anniversary shorts had been released in a large

format collection, but felt 'bythe numbers', a swift release to sate those who couldn't or wouldn't! read the ebook versions.

However, when it was rereleased with a newth Doctor story, a special little box with all the tales separately bound was released a very charming little release.

I mention this only because the innovation behind it seems to have rubbed off, if only a little! to add value to this Time Trips collection.

There's a part of me that would have loved another box release, but this edition is very nice.
What with new coverpiece illustrations for each story, it makes for a worthwhile purchase,

Not sure if I would recommend it for those who have already read all the stories the thing retails at, as well as a few duff tales, but if you are a completist or a 'must have DW books hardcopy as well' kind of person like I seem to be!, then I'd say go for it.


I have reviewed most of the other books individually, so I won't repeat that here!

I hope they publish more Time Trips and more collected editions although I would request an extra full Time Trip tale as an exclusive for enxt time, to really add value to it.
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