tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post6826519330021363937..comments2022-06-30T14:30:46.386+01:00Comments on BlackberryJuniper and Sherbet: Doctor Who Books Read and Heard, Part 18!BlackberryJuniper and Sherbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16331196687695264675noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847567275453230751.post-2526377094351152552015-06-22T20:50:56.662+01:002015-06-22T20:50:56.662+01:00Great blog post as usual, Wendy, thanks! As a rela...Great blog post as usual, Wendy, thanks! As a relative newcomer to the Who universe (for last 10 years or so; I see most of my Who eps on BBC America), I haven't read any of the stories you mentioned. But your summaries remind me just how incredibly imaginative British sci fi and fantasy is and *always has been*. Back when American studios were cranking out Giant Insect flix by the score, Brit studios were coming up thoughtful, even philosophical stuff, and of course now I can't think of a single title .... what's that one from the late 50's, I think, about the Martian artifact found in the London Underground that infects psyches? Anyway, from Colin Wilson to D Adams, just superior stuff. Brit sci fi/fantasy seemed to have caught on to -or paralleled) - the Jorge Luis Borges influence way before America did. Okay, there was Forbidden Planet, a superior American sci fi film (which Wendy despises because of one single line, but hey, who's perfect :)) , but overall, seems to me that the British sci fi/fantasy imagination is just plain superior. Def more fun! Of course your literary tradition goes way back. Gardening prbly helps, too.willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02508915425904746670noreply@blogger.com