April 21st, 2015
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The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who Hardcover
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Doctor Who stories are many things: thrilling adventures, historical dramas, tales of love and war and jelly babies. They’re also science fiction – but how much of the science is actually real, and how much is really fiction?
The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who is a mind-bending blend of story and science that will help you see Doctor Who in a whole new light, weaving together a series of all-new adventures, featuring every incarnation of the Doctor.
With commentary that explores the possibilities of time travel, life on other planets, artificial intelligence, parallel universes and more, Simon Guerrier and Dr Marek Kukula show how Doctor Who uses science to inform its unique style of storytelling – and just how close it has often come to predicting future scientific discoveries.
This book is your chance to be the Doctor’s companion and explore what’s out there. It will make you laugh, and think, and see the world around you differently.
Because anything could be out there. And going out is the only way to learn what it is.
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Tardispals
June 8th, 2015 - 5:36pmI cannot recommend this book enough!! Beautiful read!! So detailed! At first I was like: “no probably not my thing” (I prefer Doctor Who novels) However, after reading just a tiny bit in the shop I couldn’t put it down. Had to purchase straight away! This, is something different.
Anonymous
April 22nd, 2015 - 1:50pmSo is the science told through the adventures or is this separate?
Existent Being
April 21st, 2015 - 8:20pmI doubt this will be as good as the unofficial one that was released in 2007.
The new stories are lacking science, and inventing their own. In the latest series we have had the ridiculous Kill the Moon and In the Forest of the Night, as well as the just stupid Deep Breath skin balloon.
I do love the Dalek on the cover though.
VespiformsSting
April 21st, 2015 - 8:13pmI always feel Dr Who’s science content has been greatly reduced even more so the ability to try and make fantastic ideas seem scientifically feasible, the show is much more fantasy/magic’ based now. That serial about the forest growing all over the world was case in point …. the ‘science’ didn’t seem credible at all……..
Sherlock Holmes
April 21st, 2015 - 7:29pmIntresting.
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