Doctor Who: The Daily Doctor

by Simon Guerrier

The Daily Doctor is a page-a-day guide to living your best Time Lord life. As days turn to weeks turn to months, stay serene with your daily dose of the inspirational plans, pronouncements and principles that bring order this crazy and chaotic universe.

From what it means to be human, when it's best to run and the best approach to filling your pockets, this book contains nothing less than the tao of Doctor Who - 365¼ hot tips on life and how to live it!

Genres: Doctor Who, Nonfiction

387 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 31, 2023

About the author

Simon Guerrier is a British science fiction author and dramatist, closely associated with the fictional universe of Doctor Who and its spinoffs. Although he has written three Doctor Who novels, for the BBC Books range, his work has mostly been for Big Finish Productions' audio drama and book ranges.

Guerrier's earliest published fiction appeared in Zodiac, the first of Big Finish's Short Trips range of Doctor Who short story anthologies. To date, his work has appeared in the majority of the Short Trips collections. He has also edited three volumes in the series, The History of Christmas, Time Signature and How The Doctor Changed My Life. The second of these takes as its starting-point Guerrier's short story An Overture Too Early in The Muses. The third anthology featured stories entirely by previously unpublished writers.

After contributing two stories to the anthology Life During Wartime in Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield range of books and audio dramas, Guerrier was invited to edit the subsequent year's short story collection, A Life Worth Living, and the novella collection Parallel Lives. After contributing two audio dramas to the series, Guerrier became the producer of the Bernice Summerfield range of plays and books, a post he held between January 2006 and June 2007.

His other Doctor Who work includes the audio dramas, The Settling and The Judgement of Isskar, in Big Finish's Doctor Who audio range, three Companion Chronicles and a contribution to the UNIT spinoff series. He has also written a play in Big Finish's Sapphire and Steel range.

Guerrier's work is characterised by character-driven humour and by an interest in unifying the continuity of the various Big Finish ranges through multiple references and reappearances of characters. As editor he has been a strong promoter of the work of various script writers from the Seventh Doctor era of the Doctor Who television series

Reviews

[Kieran McAndrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

A daily guide to living life to its best using quotes and examples from the series 'Doctor Who'.

Motivational and upbeat, this isn't the worst way to start someone's day.

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just as The Doctor himself hurls around the universe in completely the one order, so does this philosophical guide in the space of a year, where each day has a moment of contemplation for you to ponder. It’s been compiled by a bunch of fanboys who are keen to get the very latest up-to-date musings and have put their favourite quotations and moments into this tome in no particular order. A Christmas episode is featured at Halloween, and other aspects of Halloween are covered elsewhere in the book. Each day contains an interaction from an episode together with its title so you can work out if you’ve seen it or not to recall the interaction, followed by a context of the quote and an explanation of how the quote can be used in perspective. Some offer simple guidelines while others make you ponder how you interact with your fellow man. Either way, get ready for a taste of nostalgia.

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book, which is full of quotes and Easter eggs from across the show's history, has clearly been put together with a lot of love and care.

I'd thoroughly recommended to any fan of the show! Not only does it cleverly weave together key moments in the show with the sort of advice a character like the Doctor would have built up from moments like these across their lives, it also serves as a fun way to experience moments from the show's past. For newer fans it serves as a way to introduce them to favourite stories that they haven't discovered yet.

Now, if you excuse me, I'm going to go and rewatch An Unearthly Child.

[Daniel Kukwa · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is just a daily calendar-style mediation, using particular scenes and quotes from all 60 years of the series to date. There's nothing groundbreaking about this, but odds are your own personal favourite scene from a particular episode will be found within its pages...and perhaps one or two sweet moments that may have slipped your memory.

[Jonathan K. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved reading this book over the last year, even though I didn't always read it on the correct days, I still enjoyed it very much. It helped me from time to time and I will occasionally read it again and again.

[Toriah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Much fun seeing all the quotes of different Doctors from classic to modern side by side.

[Karla · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cute daily readings with insightful messages. Plus lots of doctor who references. A page a day is a great way to let you Ponder over that days' thoughts.