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Target for Tommy #2
A Second Target for Tommy
Our good friend the fabulous writer Tommy Donbavand, having overcome throat cancer, has now had the shattering news that he has a tumour in his lung. As a result he continues to be unable to do the school visits which generated much of the income he needs to support his family.
In 2016, the reading community rallied round when some Tommy’s friends released the original A TARGET FOR TOMMY, a collection of Doctor Who short stories. Now, some of us have decided to release a sequel – A SECOND TARGET FOR TOMMY.
Including – for the first time ever! – the draft script for the Christopher Eccleston scene in Doctor Who’s 50th Anniversary Special, Day of the Doctor, kindly provided by outgoing Who showrunner, Steven Moffat, and stories from over two dozen writers, every penny of profit raised will go to support Tommy while he works on making a full recovery.
At the moment there are no plans for an ebook version of the book, and we cannot guarantee how long the paperback will be available, so please order now!
An ebook of the first TARGET FOR TOMMY can however be purchased here: http://obversebooks.co.uk/product/a-t...
Tommy’s blog, Tommy vs Cancer (http://www.tommyvcancer.com/) is back online too, and the book version of his original battle is still available to buy too (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B071W4HX7K). Check them both out!
In 2016, the reading community rallied round when some Tommy’s friends released the original A TARGET FOR TOMMY, a collection of Doctor Who short stories. Now, some of us have decided to release a sequel – A SECOND TARGET FOR TOMMY.
Including – for the first time ever! – the draft script for the Christopher Eccleston scene in Doctor Who’s 50th Anniversary Special, Day of the Doctor, kindly provided by outgoing Who showrunner, Steven Moffat, and stories from over two dozen writers, every penny of profit raised will go to support Tommy while he works on making a full recovery.
At the moment there are no plans for an ebook version of the book, and we cannot guarantee how long the paperback will be available, so please order now!
An ebook of the first TARGET FOR TOMMY can however be purchased here: http://obversebooks.co.uk/product/a-t...
Tommy’s blog, Tommy vs Cancer (http://www.tommyvcancer.com/) is back online too, and the book version of his original battle is still available to buy too (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B071W4HX7K). Check them both out!
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296 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2018
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April 5, 2018Yes I like to read Doctor Who books. This would be listed by Adrian Fry as a Lewis book, and I don’t care. It’s a collection of stories, exploring different aspects of the Doctor in all of his and her guises. It’s very nostalgic but I don’t mind that. It’s pure escapism which allows you wallow and forget whatever is bothering you. It’s all for a good cause as well though.
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August 7, 2021Another not exactly authorised collection of Doctor Who-related stories, though there can hardly be a better mark of unofficial approval than having Steven Moffat contributing a scene from an early draft of Day Of The Doctor, when he still hoped Eccleston might return. Otherwise, contributors run the gamut of Who and its spin-offs, from the sublime (plenty of Faction Paradox regulars) to the ridiculous (the boss of the wonky Lethbridge-Stewart range). As with the first volume, operating in a legal grey area opens even more possibilities than Who normally has access to; that book's Miss Fisher crossover is rerun with a different Doctor, and the Teletubbies make another brief appearance, but for me the gem was the Seventh Doctor, in darkest manipulator mode, visiting a run-down Acacia Road and convincing Eric to eat one more banana. The other incentive was the good cause, of course – a fundraiser for fan and writer Tommy Donbavand, after another cancer diagnosis. But by the time I got around to reading the book, he was already gone; ours is not one of the worlds where the Doctor saves the day.
(There's a thought: 2020's Who was the first time we've seen, as against had subsequently disproven backstory reports of, the Doctor entirely failing to save one of their homeworlds and its people. That series kicked off a decade in which their other, adopted homeworld has so far had its worst time since the show began. Obviously we already recognised Chibnall as a spectacularly inept writer of Who qua fictional drama series, but I've been so deep in the hole that only now do I notice the magical implications of someone that crap being put in a position where they can break one of the great modern avatars of hope and escape. Particularly given it happens at a time when the other, Superman, had also been holed by similarly hopeless handling. But just as I was finishing the last few stories in this book came the unexpected good news: as well as Jodie Whittaker's departure, after a perfectly standard length of tenure, Chibnall was also making a surprise early exit. On top of which, the first year without him at the helm will be 2023. The sixtieth anniversary, but also a year already tagged by the KLF. An act who, John Higgs theorised, had inadvertently sold their souls to Doctor Who. All of a sudden I find myself capable of a first faint tatter of optimism about the decade)
(There's a thought: 2020's Who was the first time we've seen, as against had subsequently disproven backstory reports of, the Doctor entirely failing to save one of their homeworlds and its people. That series kicked off a decade in which their other, adopted homeworld has so far had its worst time since the show began. Obviously we already recognised Chibnall as a spectacularly inept writer of Who qua fictional drama series, but I've been so deep in the hole that only now do I notice the magical implications of someone that crap being put in a position where they can break one of the great modern avatars of hope and escape. Particularly given it happens at a time when the other, Superman, had also been holed by similarly hopeless handling. But just as I was finishing the last few stories in this book came the unexpected good news: as well as Jodie Whittaker's departure, after a perfectly standard length of tenure, Chibnall was also making a surprise early exit. On top of which, the first year without him at the helm will be 2023. The sixtieth anniversary, but also a year already tagged by the KLF. An act who, John Higgs theorised, had inadvertently sold their souls to Doctor Who. All of a sudden I find myself capable of a first faint tatter of optimism about the decade)
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