The Essential Doctor Who: Relative Dimensions

In 2019 The Essential Doctor Who: Relative Dimensions was published by Panini UK Ltd.

Cover Blurb
PARALLEL WORLDS AND ALTERNATIVE REALITIES BEYOND OUR UNIVERSE

Contents

 * Spoilers! - Analysing the major categories within Doctor Who's futuristic adventures - and what they have to say about the fate of humanity.
 * Future Imperfect - Anthony Coburn's unproduced story The Masters of Luxor would have set the first series of Doctor Who on a very different path.
 * The Savages - In the far future, the First Doctor is welcomed to a society characterised by peace and luxury. But this prosperity comes at a price...
 * Imposter - In 1962 Dalek creator Terry Nation wrote a television play that anticipated some of his best-known work on Doctor Who.
 * The Ice Warriors - Earth is in the grip of a new ice age, but the staff of Britannicus Base are diverted by a strange discovery in a nearby glacier...
 * Rage Against the Machine - The writers of Doctor Who once predicted that our relationship with computers would pose a threat to us all.
 * The Enemy of the World - In 2018 the Second Doctor becomes crucial in a plot to discredit Salamander - a man who holds the Earth at his mercy...
 * Federation and Empire - A number of stories produced in the early 1970s were set against an epic backdrop of interplanetary imperialism.
 * The Mutants - Arriving at a space station in the 30th century, the Third Doctor and Jo Grant investigate cruelty at an outpost of the Earth Empire.
 * Who Licensed You to Slaughter People? - Subhadra Das, curator at UCL Science Collections, explains the theories of eugenics that inform the 1977 serial The Face of Evil.
 * The Sun Makers - Aliens from the planet Usurius have offered mankind sanctuary on the terraformed Pluto. Now mankind must repay its debt...
 * Tomorrow's World - Former Doctor Who script editor Christopher H Bidmead discusses some of the scientific principles he added to the 1980-81 series.
 * The Leisure Hive - The survivors of a devastating war pin their hopes on tachyonics. But is the new science a blessing to the people of Argolis, or a curse?
 * Gangsters' Paradise - Writer David Fisher describes the sometimes difficult process of producing his groundbreaking 1980 story The Leisure Hive.
 * Terminus - The space station Terminus treats the victims of Lazar's Disease - and hides a deadly secret with implications for the entire universe...
 * Doorway to the Fantastic - Stephen Gallagher, writer of Warriors' Gate and Terminus, remembers the challenges faced by Doctor Who in the early 1980s.
 * Frontios - The Fifth Doctor and his companions travel to the far future, where a colony of beleaguered humans fights for survival.
 * Fashioning the Future - Doctor Who's costume designers have often reflected contemporary or historical trends when creating futuristic outfits.
 * Vengeance On Varos - On the planet Varos reality television comprises live broadcasts of torture and execution - with the Doctor as the latest star...
 * Predictive Text - Some of Doctor Who's most ambitious depictions of futuristic societies have appeared in the series' spin-off novels and other books.
 * Paradise Towers - The planner's dream has turned into a nightmare for besieged and warring residents trapped in high-rise hell...
 * Brave New Worlds - Free from the constraints of television Doctor Who, Big Finish's audio productions have explored a wide variety of future environments.
 * The Long Game - In the year 200,000 the Ninth Doctor discovers something sinister at the heart of the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire.
 * Future Feline - Best known as one of the leading Sisters of Plenitude, actress and novelist Anna Hope describes her ongoing association with the planet New Earth.
 * Gridlock - Five billion years in the future, an exodus from the squalid undercity of New Earth has led to mid-air motorways choked with traffic.
 * Building the Future - Stephen Nicholas, Doctor Who's supervising art director, comments on highlights of the series' futuristic concept illustrations.
 * Planet of the Ood - In the year 4126 the previously benign Ood embark on a violent revolution against their oppressive human masters.
 * Brain Drain - Keith Temple drew upon childhood memories of Doctor Who when writing the script for his 2008 story Planet of the Ood.
 * The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People - Acid mining was a dangerous occupation with a high mortality rate - until 22nd-century technology created synthetic, disposable workers...
 * Chronicles of the Future - For nearly 40 years the comic strips published by Doctor Who Magazine have presented epic visions of the Time Lord's future travels.
 * Sleep No More - Professor Rassmussen's device to concentrate the sleeping experience seems like a miracle, until the horrifying consequences become clear...
 * Twisted Engineering - Production designer Michael Pickwoad created stunning future environments for the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors.
 * Smile - Fleeing the dying Earth, a colony ship of humans travels 20 light years to the sanctuary of a purpose-built city maintained by robots.
 * Lost in Space - Did future threats seem more imminent to the show's original writers? And why is the future getting further and further away?

Notes and other images

 * Panini Bookazine #19

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