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Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Universe
The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse.
Published to coincide with three feature-length anniversary specials, the ultimate official celebration of 60 years of Doctor Who, featuring heroes, monsters, spaceships, planets and more. . . all as you've never seen before. Welcome to the Whoniverse. First stop - everywhere. Six decades may only be a handful of heartbeats to a Time Lord, but for Doctor Who it's the adventure of several lifetimes. Evolving over 60 years, the world's longest-running sci-fi TV show has gifted us a universe of menacing monsters and unforgettable heroes. You might even call it a 'Whotopia'. Now you can roam free through the Doctor's dimension as never before in this special commemorative book for Doctor Who's diamond anniversary. Join all the Doctors as each tells their own story. Learn about their legions of legendary allies - and hear from the monsters' own mouths about what makes them tick. Find danger on alien worlds and threats here on Earth in all eras. And explore the gadgets, robots, spaceships, computers and mind-blowing creations that crowd the never-ending corridors of Whotopia. Crammed with exciting new images and in full colour throughout, Whotopia - The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse is the essential celebration of 60 years of Doctor Who.
Published to coincide with three feature-length anniversary specials, the ultimate official celebration of 60 years of Doctor Who, featuring heroes, monsters, spaceships, planets and more. . . all as you've never seen before. Welcome to the Whoniverse. First stop - everywhere. Six decades may only be a handful of heartbeats to a Time Lord, but for Doctor Who it's the adventure of several lifetimes. Evolving over 60 years, the world's longest-running sci-fi TV show has gifted us a universe of menacing monsters and unforgettable heroes. You might even call it a 'Whotopia'. Now you can roam free through the Doctor's dimension as never before in this special commemorative book for Doctor Who's diamond anniversary. Join all the Doctors as each tells their own story. Learn about their legions of legendary allies - and hear from the monsters' own mouths about what makes them tick. Find danger on alien worlds and threats here on Earth in all eras. And explore the gadgets, robots, spaceships, computers and mind-blowing creations that crowd the never-ending corridors of Whotopia. Crammed with exciting new images and in full colour throughout, Whotopia - The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse is the essential celebration of 60 years of Doctor Who.
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324 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 16, 2023
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About the author
Jonathan Morris
214 books70 followersJonathan Morris is one of the most prolific and popular writers of Doctor Who books, including the highly-regarded novels 'Festival of Death' and 'Touched by an Angel' and the recent guide to monsters, 'The Monster Vault'. He has also written numerous comic strips, most of which were collected in 'The Child of Time', and audios for BBC Audio and Big Finish, including the highly-regarded comedies 'Max Warp' and 'The Auntie Matter', as well as the adaptation of Russell T Davies’ 'Damaged Goods'.
Recently he has started his own audio production company, Average Romp. Releases include a full-cast adaptation of Charles Dickens' The Chimes', an original play, 'When Michael Met Benny', and three episodes of a SF sitcom, 'Dick Dixon in the 21st Century'.
For details visit www.averageromp.com
He also originated his own series, Vienna and script-edited the Nigel Planer series 'Jeremiah Bourne in Time'. He’s also written documentaries and for TV sketch shows.
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Recently he has started his own audio production company, Average Romp. Releases include a full-cast adaptation of Charles Dickens' The Chimes', an original play, 'When Michael Met Benny', and three episodes of a SF sitcom, 'Dick Dixon in the 21st Century'.
For details visit www.averageromp.com
He also originated his own series, Vienna and script-edited the Nigel Planer series 'Jeremiah Bourne in Time'. He’s also written documentaries and for TV sketch shows.
Librarian note:
There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name
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November 21, 2023
A book which provides an alphabetical list of places, people, events and items from the universe of 'Doctor Who', organised by themes.
Well compiled and, while there is lots of scope to expand this further, it fits its brief of being a sixtieth anniversary coffee table book
Well compiled and, while there is lots of scope to expand this further, it fits its brief of being a sixtieth anniversary coffee table book
November 25, 2023
For every doctor who fan this is for you. Short segments on individual monsters, villains tech, planets and worlds that have appeared in this TV show from its inception 60 years ago. Newbies to the whoniverse will also get a good grounding of who/what/where/when how the whoniverse works.
November 24, 2023
Love love loved it!
Amazing book with great detail and humorous too.
Slotted in references to episodes as such dotted throughout and overall entertaining.
Amazing book with great detail and humorous too.
Slotted in references to episodes as such dotted throughout and overall entertaining.
September 22, 2024
A good book if you like doctor who
January 21, 2025
Loved this book one of my favs of 2024
April 11, 2025
A colourful and highly comprehensive guide to everything Doctor Who over its(at time of publication) 60 years.
August 7, 2025
terrible. just a summary of every weird plotline in doctor who. i did not finish it.
February 6, 2024
First, the good stuff…
As a piece of memorabilia, a keepsake for the sixtieth anniversary of Doctor Who, Whotopia succeeds brilliantly. It looks the part. A big, thick, sturdy hardback nicely bound in “Tardis Blue,” with gold font and little golden embellishments. Inside, there are gold lacquer endpapers and it is profusely illustrated in colour and black and white.
So far so good…
Where it is perhaps less successful, is in terms of content. It has the same issue that the show itself sometimes suffers from, trying to please everyone. The Doctor Who fanbase is a diverse one. There are those who started watching when they were six years old in nineteen sixty-three (like me) and those who started watching when they were six years old in twenty twenty-four with the Christmas special. Added to that, here in the UK Doctor Who is seen as an early evening family adventure show. Outside of the UK it is more commonly viewed as quirky, cult Sci-Fi. I’m not sure that what they settled on will entirely please anyone.
There is another issue and it is one I wouldn’t normally bring up. The book is littered from end to end with tiny silly errors. Little typos, missing words, sentences that seem as if the writer had two versions of the sentence in mind and accidentally ended up with a hybrid of the two, that doesn’t quite make sense. At the end of each piece the episode(s) being discussed are referenced, either there, or in the accompanying picture if there is one… except when they forget.
This sort of thing doesn’t usually bother me, no book is perfect, I would generally just shrug and move on, I certainly wouldn’t mention it in a review. I am mentioning it in this case more out of sheer surprise than anything. This is an official BBC book, produced for them by Penguin Random House. A whole team of contributors and editors are listed in the back of the book and it’s a commemorative item. Yet it reads for all the world like there were two files, one proofed and one not and they sent the wrong one to the printers.
Hopefully they will correct this in future editions, perhaps they already have?
Anyway, that’s not to say I didn’t enjoy it, I did and I am very pleased to own it. It is after all a souvenir as much as anything else and as I said at the beginning, in that it succeeds very well.
As a piece of memorabilia, a keepsake for the sixtieth anniversary of Doctor Who, Whotopia succeeds brilliantly. It looks the part. A big, thick, sturdy hardback nicely bound in “Tardis Blue,” with gold font and little golden embellishments. Inside, there are gold lacquer endpapers and it is profusely illustrated in colour and black and white.
So far so good…
Where it is perhaps less successful, is in terms of content. It has the same issue that the show itself sometimes suffers from, trying to please everyone. The Doctor Who fanbase is a diverse one. There are those who started watching when they were six years old in nineteen sixty-three (like me) and those who started watching when they were six years old in twenty twenty-four with the Christmas special. Added to that, here in the UK Doctor Who is seen as an early evening family adventure show. Outside of the UK it is more commonly viewed as quirky, cult Sci-Fi. I’m not sure that what they settled on will entirely please anyone.
There is another issue and it is one I wouldn’t normally bring up. The book is littered from end to end with tiny silly errors. Little typos, missing words, sentences that seem as if the writer had two versions of the sentence in mind and accidentally ended up with a hybrid of the two, that doesn’t quite make sense. At the end of each piece the episode(s) being discussed are referenced, either there, or in the accompanying picture if there is one… except when they forget.
This sort of thing doesn’t usually bother me, no book is perfect, I would generally just shrug and move on, I certainly wouldn’t mention it in a review. I am mentioning it in this case more out of sheer surprise than anything. This is an official BBC book, produced for them by Penguin Random House. A whole team of contributors and editors are listed in the back of the book and it’s a commemorative item. Yet it reads for all the world like there were two files, one proofed and one not and they sent the wrong one to the printers.
Hopefully they will correct this in future editions, perhaps they already have?
Anyway, that’s not to say I didn’t enjoy it, I did and I am very pleased to own it. It is after all a souvenir as much as anything else and as I said at the beginning, in that it succeeds very well.
January 6, 2024
Very full of information, love the whole image spreads. I don't read much non-fiction so this was a little hard to rate, it was a cool book though
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