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Campaign - An Adventure in Time and Space
 

No. 3 of 28 in the Miscellaneous original novels series
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By:Jim Mortimore
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Editions:  UK (paperback) | UK (1st hardback) | UK (2nd hardback)
Description:  Unofficial Doctor Who novel featuring the First Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan, and taking place between the television stories The Reign of Terror and Planet of Giants.

Cover image for Campaign - An Adventure in Time and Space
Edition: UK (paperback)
Released:  September 2000
Publisher:  Pyrrhic Pressure
ISBN:None
Format: paperback
Owned:
Buy:eBay

Note:  For some reason, the ISBN of the aborted BBC paperback release is still listed on Amazon.co.uk and occasional second-hand copies of this (non-BBC) edition sometimes turn up for sale on that page.

Cover blurb:
‘The universe is dead!
Time and space, murdered!
Stars and moons, planets, comets, put to the sword!
Physics and chemistry, mathematics, geography, sent to the stake!
Mother and father, friend and stranger, snug bound in entropy’s coffin!
Love, dead! fear, dead!
Dogs and birds and cats and ants and books and pies and cars and lies, all dead and gone to less than dreams these long ten years!
Everyone that ever lived,
every thought that ever held meaning,
every flower that ever cupped dew
and every equation that ever brushed a portrait of truth—’

Somewhere inside Ian’s mind a page turned.

‘All that we have is in here—’ he stamped the ground with a child’s foot, ’—now—’ he waved with a child’s windmill arm at the universe the Ship had built for us to live out our lives in.

‘There’s nothing else worth remembering anymore.’

Cover image for Campaign - An Adventure in Time and Space
Edition: UK (1st hardback)
Released:  April 2008
Publisher:  Pyrrhic Pressure
ISBN:None
Format: hardback
Owned:
Buy:eBay

Note:  Limited edition, containing the revised version of the novel as available on the NZDWFC site (see above) plus additional supplemental material from the author, including an account of the novel’s turbulent gestation. The same NZDWFC page also contains contact details for Jim Mortimore, for those who wish to order a copy directly from the author.

Cover blurb:
‘Forget? Well, why not? It’s not like there’s anything to remember, is there?’ He jerked, clockwork grief, broken. Without voice, his body screamed: The universe is dead! Time and space, murdered! Stars and moons, planets, comets, put to the sword! Physics and chemistry, mathematics, geography, sent to the stake! Mother and father, friend and stranger, snug bound in entropy’s coffin! Love, dead! Fear, dead! Dogs and birds and cats and ants and books and pies and cars and lies, all dead and gone to less than dreams these long ten years! Everyone that ever lived, every thought that ever held meaning, every flower that ever cupped dew and every equation that ever brushed a portrait of truth—’

Hooves struck the ground: summer storm piling close as clouds.

Somewhere inside Ian’s mind a page turned.

‘All that we have is in here—’ he stamped the ground with a child’s foot, ’—now—’ he waved with a child’s windmill arm at the universe the TARDIS had built for us to live out our lives in. ‘There’s nothing else worth remembering anymore.’

Cover image for Campaign - An Adventure in Time and Space
Edition: UK (2nd hardback)
Released:  January 2012
Publisher:  Pyrrhic Pressure
ISBN:None
Format: hardback
Owned:
Buy:eBay

Note:  Print-on-demand book. Referred to by the author as “version 2.1” or the “second-and-a-half edition”, this is essentially the same as the previous hardback edition above, with the addition of some extra behind-the-scenes correspondence as “bonus material”. The book was removed from sale on Lulu.com in October 2013 due to Random House (i.e. parent company of BBC Books) serving a copyright takedown notice.

Cover blurb:
“I bought the first (edition of Campaign) off eBay for a ludicrous sum of money — and the moment I began reading it I realized whatever I spent had actually been a bargain.

“To say it’s the most beautifully written Doctor Who novel ever is an understatement.

“It’s so lush and rich that I try to foist it upon my friends who’ve never watched the series to show them the amazing possibilities unique to Doctor Who."

Timothy Eubanks


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