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Barnes & Noble has released a stunning Doctor Who book that combines two popular novels starring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond, and Rory Williams.
As part of their Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions, Doctor Who: Two Novels brings together Dan Abnett’s The Silent Stars Go By, and Jonathan Morris’ Touched by an Angel in a gorgeous rich TARDIS-blue cover, edged with Gallifreyan:
The Silent Stars Go By: The winter festival is approaching for the hardy colony of Morphans, but no one is in the mood to celebrate. They’re trying to build a new life on a cold new world, but each year it gets harder and harder. It’s almost as thouigh some dark force is working against them. Then three mysterious travelers arrive out of the midwinter night. Are they bringing the gift of salvation, or doom? What else lurks out there in the dark–and what else might be about to wake up?
Touched by an Angel: In 2003, Rebecca Whitaker died in a road accident. Her husband Mark is still grieving when he receives a battered envelope posted eight years earlier, containing a set of instructions with a simple message: “You can save her.” As Mark is given the chance to save Rebecca, it’s up to the Doctor, Amy, and Rory to save the whole world–because this time the Weeping Angels are using history itself as a weapon.
Doctor Who: Two Novels is one of Barnes & Noble’s Collectible Editions classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world’s greatest authors in an exquisitely designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging and an attractive silk-ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable, and collectible, these books offer hours of pleasure to readers young and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for every home library.
Touched by an Angel obviously features the Weeping Angels, while The Silent Stars Go By was the welcome return of the Ice Warriors before even Cold War (2013), and rather interestingly, both have been re-released in paperback form regardless. As a further intriguing quirk, written in 2011, the former tale contradicts elements of 2012’s The Angels Take Manhattan, so you’ll need to invent your own theories in your head to resolve that!
Both are really great stories nonetheless.
What’s perhaps most notable is how Doctor Who is being treated to this ‘classic’ format, nestled amongst the ranks of William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Dickens, HP Lovecraft, and many more. It’s treated as proper literature, not a cheap cash-grab. And rightly so. Doctor Who novels are mostly of extremely high quality, and if I lived in America, I know I’d snap this special hardback edition up.
The 488-page book is out now, with an RRP of $25.
It may just be a beautiful curiosity, but it’s undoubtedly a rare thing too. Will you be picking it up?
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