laura_seabrook | The Science of Doctor Who (Reply)

One good book that I've read (from the local library) is The Science of Doctor Who by Paul Parsons (Icon Books).

I've read a few books like this - about Star Trek, Vampires, Harry Potter, and so on. The good ones make a good read, and the bad ones are merely boring, constantly saying why something from it's source material couldn't work.

And while there's a certain amount of that in this book, I glad to say that it also points to a lot of things from Dr Who that could work! Oddly enough, the TARDIS is one of them, and could use "exotic matter" not only to create vortexes to go through time, but also to be bigger on the inside than the outside!

Not only that, it also points you to the U.N.I.T. website (!), and other interesting documents [warning - 5mb PDF file!].

Overall there's a good coverage of the sorts of issues and ideas that the science of the show has dealt with. The writer is no idle academic who knows science and not the show - they're obviously a fan, and that makes all the difference.