Time and Relative

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Author(s):

Kim Newman

First Pub:

2001

Genre(s):

Science Fiction; Television Tie-In

First Read:

2001

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

See 9

1 - Wednesday, March 27^th, 1963

2 - Thursday, March 28^th, 1963

3 - Friday, March 29^th, 1963

4 - Saturday, March 30^th, 1963

5 - Sunday, March 31^st, 1963

6 - Monday, April 1^st, 1963

7 - Tuesday, April 2^st, 1963

8 - Tuesday, April 3^st, 1963

9 - Wednesday, April 4^st, 1963

Internal ID:

392

Series:

Citadel of Dreams

Doctor Who - Telos Novellas*

#1 of 15

Doctor Who - Telos Novellas*

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1) Time and Relative
2) Citadel of Dreams
3) Nightdreamers
4) Ghost Ship
5) Foreign Devils
6) Rip Tide
7) Wonderland
8) Shell Shock
9) The Cabinet of Light
10) Fallen Gods
11) Frayed
12) The Eye of the Tyger
13) Companion Piece
14) Blood and Hope
15) The Dalek Factor

Copyright:

Time and Relative © Kim Newman 2001

Dedication:

For Jerome

First Sentence:

None on file

Last Sentence:

None on file

Comments:

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Extract (may contain spoilers)

The army isn't on the streets any more. The council isn't clearing up the snow. There are no policemen, postmen, milkmen, binmen. People peer from barricaded upper storey windows, wrapped up warm but not daring to go out. Long unused chimneys pour thick smoke into the grey sky. Whatever came to hand is being burned in grates left over from before the Clean Air Act.
I don't know how much longer anyone indoors will be safe.
Snow and ice are everywhere, and anywhere they are there can be Cold Knights. Eventually, it will be night again and the general temperature will plunge well below freezing.
Then we might all be for the Chop.
By day, with the temperature just hovering about freezing point, the Cold Knights are like individuals in an army; at night, when the water is ice, they are more purposeful, like one being, one hostile intelligence - a living, thinking, malign glacier.

Characters

Doctor 1 - (Doctor)
Susan Foreman - (Companion)

Added: 21-Feb-2003

Last Updated: 09-Apr-2020

23-Nov-2001

Telos Publishing

Hardback

Date Issued:

23-Nov-2001

Format:

Hardback

Internal ID:

1274

Publisher:

Telos Publishing

ISBN:

1-903-88903-0

ISBN-13:

978-1-903-88903-9

Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Credits:

Justin Richards - Foreword
Bryan Talbot - Illustrator

The harsh British winter of 1963 brings a big freeze that extends into April with no sign of letting up. And with it comes a new, far greater menace: terrifying icy creatures are stalking the streets, bringing death and destruction.

The First Doctor and Susan, trapped on Earth until the faulty TARDIS can be repaired, are caught up in the crisis. The Doctor seems to know what is going on, but is uncharacteristically detached and furtive, almost as if he is losing his memory...

Susan, isolated from her grandfather and finding it hard to fit in with the human teenagers at Coal Hill School, tries to cope by recording her thoughts in a diary. But she too feels her memory slipping away and her past unravelling. Is she even sure who she is any more...?

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

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Date Issued:

23-Nov-2002

Format:

Hardback

Pages*:

119

Read:

Once

Cover Link(s):

amazon.com

Internal ID:

259

Publisher:

Telos Publishing

ISBN:

1-903-88902-2

ISBN-13:

978-1-903-88902-2

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

23-Nov-2001
Telos Publishing
Hardback

23-Nov-2002
Telos Publishing
Hardback

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Author(s)

Kim Newman
Birth: 31 Jul 1959 London, England, UK

Notes:

From About the Author in the book Time and Relative.

Kim Newman is an author, film expert and critic, an enthusiastic pundit of SF writing and one of Britain's great eccentrics. Born in Brixton in 1959, he grew up in Somerset and graduated in English at Sussex University. He came to London in 1980 and worked with a Bridgewater Arts and Entertainment Collective called Sheep Worrying as a Kazoo player and cabaret performer.

Kim has published several highly successful novels with Simon and Schuster: The Night Mayor, Bad Dreams, Jago, The Quorum, Life's Lottery and his earlier reworkings of the Dracula mythology Anno Dracula, The Bloody Red Baron and Dracula, cha, cha, cha plus four collections of short stories: Famous Monsters, The Original Doctor Shade, Seven Stars and Unforgivable Stories. He has also published a collection of his Where the Bodies are Buried... stories in one volume and is a regular contributor to several anthology series. He is the author of several specialist film books and is a regular film reviewer for Empire and Sight and Sound magazines.

Anno Dracula won the Children Of The Night Award for Best Novel from the Dracula Society and the Best Novel Award from the Lord Ruthven Assembly. It was also shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. The Where the Bodies are Buried book won the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. The Quorum, Dr Shade and Anno Dracula have all been optioned for movies.

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