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daibhidcI'm not nearly as excited about the Shada novelisation as I should be, TBH. Between the video with Tom narrating the bits that weren't filmed, the script book, Big Finish's Eighth Doctor audio/"limited animation" webcast, and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, I've probably experienced more versions of it than any other Who story!
It's interesting the Guardian article glosses over DNA's reasons for not writing the novelisation at the time by saying he was "always to busy".
The version I'm familiar with has it that Target Books offered him their standard contract with a £600 advance, and Adams, quite understandably, replied "I don't want to be embarrassing about this, but I do have a tendency to be a best-selling author". Target wouldn't budge, and that was that.
Whatever. It's Gareth Roberts. Adapting a Douglas Adams script. Anyone who's read his Missing Adventures with the Fourth Doctor and Second Romana will know how completely right that is. I hope he gets to do City of Death next.
It's interesting the Guardian article glosses over DNA's reasons for not writing the novelisation at the time by saying he was "always to busy".
The version I'm familiar with has it that Target Books offered him their standard contract with a £600 advance, and Adams, quite understandably, replied "I don't want to be embarrassing about this, but I do have a tendency to be a best-selling author". Target wouldn't budge, and that was that.
Whatever. It's Gareth Roberts. Adapting a Douglas Adams script. Anyone who's read his Missing Adventures with the Fourth Doctor and Second Romana will know how completely right that is. I hope he gets to do City of Death next.
