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Book Synopsiscosmologist and is ideal beach reading for anyone who loves science and watches the show-no matter which planet the beach is on.
Trade ReviewDo you have to be a Doctor Who fan to read this book? No, but it helps. And if you aren't when you begin, you will probably be one by the end. -- Charlene Brusso SF Site This exploration of the long-running TV series delivers on its promise to answer the kinds of questions raised by the best of science fiction. The book takes readers on a satisfying romp through labs around the world where the show's fantastical ideas are explained and, in some cases, shown moving closer to reality. -- Erika Engelhaupt Science News 2010 Anyone who enjoys reading popular science magazines should get a kick out of The Science of Doctor Who. -- Cathy Green SFRevu 2010 It had to happen that someone would write The Science of Doctor Who, and we're all very fortunate that Paul Parsons was the one who did it... If you only read one Science of XYZ book this year, make it this one. -- Don Sakers Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2010 Parsons has written an engaging work accessible to lay audiences and interesting even to those not fanatical about the long-running BBC series... Accessible and entertaining, this is suitable for public and academic libraries and possibly also high school collections. Library Journal 2010 Parsons, a scientist and journalist, is an unabashed fan of Doctor Who and does a good job of making the convoluted plots and characters decipherable, even to non-aficionados, and of explaining the research and science, often cutting edge, that has even a change of making the plots possible... Useful as popular reading and in courses covering the science of science fiction. Choice 2010
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
The Eleven Doctors
Part I: Doctor in the Tardis
1. Who Is the Doctor?
2. Time and Relative Dimension in Space, or Tardis
3. Into the Vortex
4. Regeneration
5. One Giant Leap for DIY
6. Partners in Time
Part II: Aliens of London and Beyond
7. Other Worlds
8. Carnival of Monsters
9. The Cybermen
10. The Daleks
11. The Slitheen
12. The Autons
13. The Silurians and the Sea Devils
14. The Sontarans
15. Martians, Go Home!
16. The Krynoid
17. Stupid Apes
18. Exile to Earth
19. The Human Empire
20. Invasion Earth
Part III: Robot Dogs, Psychic Paper, and Other Celestial Toys
21. Scanning for Alien Tech
22. Just What the Doctor Ordered
23. K-9 and Company
24. Psychic Paper
25. Space-flight
26. Space Stations and Moonbases
27. Bombs, Bullets, and Death Rays
28. Force Fields
29. The Matrix
Part IV: Mission to the Unknown
30. Event One
31. The Eye of Harmony and Other Black Holes
32. Journeys through E-Space
33. Strange Stars and Mirror Planets
34. The More Things Change
35. The End of Time
Epilogue
List fo Episodes by Doctor
Further Reading
Index
