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James Goss

Autor(a) de Almost Perfect

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Séries

Obras de James Goss

Almost Perfect (2008) 314 cópias
Dead of Winter (2011) 240 cópias
City of Death (2015) 229 cópias
Risk Assessment (2009) 214 cópias
The Shakespeare Notebooks (2014) 209 cópias
The Blood Cell (2014) 178 cópias
Scratchman (2019) — Ghostwriter — 174 cópias
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet (2017) 124 cópias
Summer Falls (2013) — Autor — 108 cópias
Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen (2018) — Autor — 103 cópias
Dead Air (2010) 96 cópias
First Born (2011) 93 cópias
Doctor Who: The Dalek Handbook (2011) — Autor — 87 cópias
Doctor Who: City of Death (2018) 49 cópias
The Hounds of Artemis (2010) 40 cópias
Torchwood: Golden Age (2009) 36 cópias
Being Human: Bad Blood (2010) 32 cópias
Fall to Earth (2015) — Autor — 26 cópias
Death and the Queen (2016) — Autor — 23 cópias
The Torchwood Archive (2016) — Autor — 23 cópias
Torchwood: Department X (2011) 23 cópias
The Art of Death (2012) 22 cópias
Torchwood: Ghost Train (2011) 22 cópias
The Time Museum (2012) 21 cópias
The Scorchies (2013) 19 cópias
Haterz (2015) 19 cópias
Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures, Volume One (2016) — Autor; Autor — 17 cópias
Ghost Mission (2016) — Autor — 17 cópias
Doctor Who: The Giggle (2023) 16 cópias
The Last Post (2012) 16 cópias
Torchwood: The Lost Files (2011) 16 cópias
Corpse Day (2017) — Autor — 16 cópias
The Lives of Captain Jack (Doctor Who) (2017) — Autor — 16 cópias
Mask of Tragedy (2014) — Autor — 15 cópias
The Office of Never Was (2017) — Autor — 15 cópias
The Diary of River Song: Series Seven (2020) — Autor — 14 cópias
The Gods of Winter (2015) 12 cópias
The Sins of Winter (2015) 12 cópias
The Lives of Captain Jack, Volume Two (2019) — Autor — 11 cópias
The War Master: The Master of Callous (2018) — Autor — 11 cópias
No Place (2019) — Autor — 10 cópias
Goodbye Picadilly (2018) — Autor — 10 cópias
Torchwood: Aliens Among Us 1 (2017) — Autor — 10 cópias
Donna Noble: Kidnapped! (2020) 9 cópias
Instant Karma (2018) — Autor — 9 cópias
Deadbeat Escape (2018) — Autor — 8 cópias
Smashed (2019) 8 cópias
Torchwood: Aliens Among Us 3 (2018) — Producer; Contribuinte — 8 cópias
The Silent Scream (2017) — Autor — 8 cópias
Ghost Walk (2018) — Autor — 7 cópias
The Hope (2019) — Autor — 7 cópias
The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield: The Unbound Universe (2016) — Script Editor; Contribuinte — 7 cópias
Missy Series 3: Missy and the Monk (2021) — Autor — 7 cópias
Masterful (2021) — Autor — 7 cópias
Lady Christina (2018) — Autor — 7 cópias
Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Chronicles (2018) — Autor — 7 cópias
Red Base (2020) — Autor — 6 cópias
Bernice Summerfield: The Story So Far, Volume One (2018) — Script Editor; Contribuinte — 6 cópias
Torchwood: God Among Us 1 (2018) — Autor — 6 cópias
Torchwood: God Among Us 3 (2019) — Autor — 6 cópias
Gooseberry (2021) — Diretor — 5 cópias
Blood and Sand (2013) 4 cópias
Coffee (2021) — Autor — 4 cópias
Lady Christina: Series 2 (2021) — Autor — 4 cópias
Fortitude (2020) — Autor — 4 cópias
Three Monkeys (2020) — Autor — 4 cópias
Torchwood: The Red List (2022) 4 cópias
Death in Venice (2022) — Autor — 3 cópias
Once and Future: The Artist at the End of Time (2023) — Autor — 3 cópias
Empire of Shadows (2021) — Autor — 3 cópias
Torchwood One: Nightmares (2022) — Autor — 3 cópias
Torchwood: 54: Curios (2021) 2 cópias
Oodunnit (2024) — Autor — 2 cópias
Madam I'm (2021) 2 cópias
Rogue Encounters (2024) — Autor — 1 exemplar(es)
Wednesdays for Beginners 1 exemplar(es)
The Hesitation Deviation (2016) 1 exemplar(es)
One Enchanted Evening 1 exemplar(es)
The Hesitation Deviation 1 exemplar(es)
Gallifrey: Renaissance 1 exemplar(es)
L'inverno dei morti. Doctor Who (2013) 1 exemplar(es)
Torchwood Soho: The Unbegotten: 3 (2022) 1 exemplar(es)
Neuvěříte, co se stalo potom (2018) 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

Summer Falls and Other Stories (2013) — Contribuinte — 168 cópias
The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who (2015) — Contribuinte — 122 cópias
Doctor Who: The Brilliant Book 2012 (2011) — Contribuinte — 91 cópias
The Diary of River Song: Series One (2016) — Autor — 43 cópias
Time Lord Victorious: Defender of the Daleks (2020) — Story — 39 cópias
Short Trips: Snapshots (2007) — Contribuinte — 38 cópias
The Diary of River Song: Series Two (2017) — Autor — 26 cópias
Doctor Who: Classic Doctors New Monsters, Volume One (2016) — Contribuinte — 24 cópias
Short Trips: Indefinable Magic (2009) — Contribuinte — 22 cópias
Doctor Who: The Legacy of Time (2019) — Contribuinte — 20 cópias
Technophobia (2016) — Script Editor — 20 cópias
The War Master: Only the Good (2018) — Contribuinte — 14 cópias
Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor Chronicles (2017) — Autor — 14 cópias
Doctor Who and the Library of Time (2021) — Contribuinte — 13 cópias
Torchwood Archives Volume 2 (2017) — Autor — 12 cópias
Jago & Litefoot: Series Seven (2014) — Contribuinte — 10 cópias
Gallifrey VI (2013) — Contribuinte — 10 cópias
Jago & Litefoot: Series Eight (2014) — Contribuinte — 9 cópias
Counter Measures: Series 2 (2013) — Contribuinte — 9 cópias
Iris Wildthyme: Wildthyme Reloaded (2015) — Contribuinte — 6 cópias
Jago & Litefoot: Series Ten (2015) — Contribuinte — 6 cópias
Bernice Summerfield: Missing Persons (2013) — Contribuinte — 6 cópias
In Time (2018) — Contribuinte — 5 cópias
Vienna: Series Two (2015) — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
Torchwood: Among Us Part 1 (2023) — Autor, algumas edições2 cópias
Torchwood: Among Us Part 3 — Autor, algumas edições1 exemplar(es)
Torchwood: Among Us Part 2 — Autor, algumas edições1 exemplar(es)

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1974
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
UK
Locais de residência
London, England, UK
Educação
Oxford University (BA|English Literature)
Ocupação
writer
editor
producer

Membros

Resenhas

https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-fourteenth-doctor-novelisations-the-star-bea....

It’s no secret that I rate James Goss as one of the best Doctor Who writers currently in business (eg here, here and here), so I awaited his novelisation of The Giggle with eager anticipation.

I have to say that my high expectations were more than exceeded. Goss tells the story from the perspective of the Toymaker (first-person Doctor Who books are very rare and not always successful), smooths off the edges, throws in some extra pinches of emotion and also some shifts of genre and format – at one point the book becomes a choose-your-own-adventure for Donna, and there are other puzzles throughout. I suspect that the paper version will be even nicer and it’s the only one of the three that I plan to get in hard copy. It’s a real tour de force.
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nwhyte | Jan 7, 2024 |
I'm giving this a 2.5 The narration was great, and most of the story was interesting but overall it just didn't strike me as much as some of the others. Kai Owen should be used more!
 
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Kiri | outras 2 resenhas | Dec 24, 2023 |
Good book, though as we all know by now, viruses mutate more when they are actually spreading, not when they lack hosts to spread through.
 
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JBarringer | outras 22 resenhas | Dec 15, 2023 |
As a longterm Doctor Who fan who enjoyed Tom Baker's stories until the later ones which became rather hammy I was keen to read this. At first, it was interesting, and it was charming to see Harry Sullivan and Sarah Jane Smith accompanying the Doctor on a visit to a remote island with a beseiged community. Sinister scarecrows are stalking the island and, it seems, turning people into scarecrows like themselves. The story is told in a framing structure, where the Doctor is having to defend himself against the Time Lords accusations as he is on trial, something that cropped up a few times in the series and was here, I thought, a bit unnecessary and irritating.

In the second half of the book, where the Doctor confronts the force behind the happenings on the island, a thing that labels itself Scratchman (Old Scratch being a name for the Devil), things become rather more fantastical, taking place in a nightmarish world. I found this dragged a bit. There is a nod to the current Doctor who makes a couple of cameo appearances.

I believe the core of this story was an idea that Tom Baker and Ian Marter, who played Harry, had discussed in the 1970s as a possible film idea. The book is dedicated to Marter who died tragically young, though not to Elizabeth Sladen who also sadly died more recently. It appears to have been ghost written or maybe co-written with someone called James Goss. It is competently written but I found the whole fantasyland aspect rather over extended and it became a bit boring. The first half I could quite envisage being a Doctor Who story of the time. One irritation was the non grammatical use of 'sat' instead of 'sitting', as in "I was sat....".

One aspect that did not work for me was the omniscience of the Doctor who could describe in detail, including dialogue, what was happening to his companions when he wasn't present. This was necessitated by the clunky trial frame - if it had just been written in third person this would not have been necessary. I also don't think the first person narrative of the Doctor himself quite works: by necessity it can't be as alien as the Doctor really should be and makes him just seem human. So given these reservations, I can only award it an OK 2 stars.
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kitsune_reader | outras 12 resenhas | Nov 23, 2023 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
137
Also by
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Membros
3,700
Popularidade
#6,849
Avaliação
3.8
Resenhas
159
ISBNs
242
Idiomas
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