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Time and Relative

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2001
2001
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See 9
1 - Wednesday, March 27th, 1963
2 - Thursday, March 28th, 1963
3 - Friday, March 29th, 1963
4 - Saturday, March 30th, 1963
5 - Sunday, March 31st, 1963
6 - Monday, April 1st, 1963
7 - Tuesday, April 2st, 1963
8 - Tuesday, April 3st, 1963
9 - Wednesday, April 4st, 1963
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Time and Relative © Kim Newman 2001
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The army isn't on the streets any more.  The council isn't clearing up the snow.  There are no policemen, postmen, milkmen, binmen.  People peer from barricaded upper storey windows, wrapped up warm but not daring to go out.  Long unused chimneys pour thick smoke into the grey sky.  Whatever came to hand is being burned in grates left over from before the Clean Air Act.
    I don't know how much longer anyone indoors will be safe.
    Snow and ice are everywhere, and anywhere they are there can be Cold Knights.  Eventually, it will be night again and the general temperature will plunge well below freezing.
    Then we might all be for the Chop.
    By day, with the temperature just hovering about freezing point, the Cold Knights are like individuals in an army; at night, when the water is ice, they are more purposeful, like one being, one hostile intelligence - a living, thinking, malign glacier.

Dramatis Personae
Character
Affiliation
Doctor 1
Doctor
Susan Foreman
Companion

 

Added: 21-Feb-2003
Last Updated: 09-Apr-2020

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 23-Nov-2001
Telos Publishing
Hardback
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Date Issued:
23-Nov-2001
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Hardback
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Internal ID:
1274
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ISBN:
1-903-88903-0
ISBN-13:
978-1-903-88903-9
Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Credits:
Justin Richards - Foreword
Bryan Talbot - Illustrator
The harsh British winter of 1963 brings a big freeze that extends into April with no sign of letting up. And with it comes a new, far greater menace: terrifying icy creatures are stalking the streets, bringing death and destruction.

The First Doctor and Susan, trapped on Earth until the faulty TARDIS can be repaired, are caught up in the crisis. The Doctor seems to know what is going on, but is uncharacteristically detached and furtive, almost as if he is losing his memory...

Susan, isolated from her grandfather and finding it hard to fit in with the human teenagers at Coal Hill School, tries to cope by recording her thoughts in a diary. But she too feels her memory slipping away and her past unravelling. Is she even sure who she is any more...?
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 23-Nov-2002
Telos Publishing
Hardback
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Date Issued:
23-Nov-2002
Format:
Hardback
Pages*:
119
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Once
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
259
Publisher:
ISBN:
1-903-88902-2
ISBN-13:
978-1-903-88902-2
Printing:
1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
The harsh British winter of 1963 brings a big freeze that extends into April with no sign of letting up. And with it comes a new, far greater menace: terrifying icy creatures are stalking the streets, bringing death and destruction.

The First Doctor and Susan, trapped on Earth until the faulty TARDIS can be repaired, are caught up in the crisis. The Doctor seems to know what is going on, but is uncharacteristically detached and furtive, almost as if he is losing his memory...

Susan, isolated from her grandfather and finding it hard to fit in with the human teenagers at Coal Hill School, tries to cope by recording her thoughts in a diary. But she too feels her memory slipping away and her past unravelling. Is she even sure who she is any more...?
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Author(s)

Kim Newman  
Birth: 31 Jul 1959 London, England, UK
Notes:
From About the Author in the book Time and Relative.

Kim Newman is an author, film expert and critic, an enthusiastic pundit of SF writing and one of Britain's great eccentrics.  Born in Brixton in 1959, he grew up in Somerset and graduated in English at Sussex University.  He came to London in 1980 and worked with a Bridgewater Arts and Entertainment Collective called Sheep Worrying as a Kazoo player and cabaret performer.

Kim has published several highly successful novels with Simon and Schuster: The Night Mayor, Bad Dreams, Jago, The Quorum, Life's Lottery and his earlier reworkings of the Dracula mythology Anno Dracula, The Bloody Red Baron and Dracula, cha, cha, cha plus four collections of short stories: Famous Monsters, The Original Doctor Shade, Seven Stars and Unforgivable Stories.  He has also published a collection of his Where the Bodies are Buried... stories in one volume and is a regular contributor to several anthology series.  He is the author of several specialist film books and is a regular film reviewer for Empire and Sight and Sound magazines.

Anno Dracula won the Children Of The Night Award for Best Novel from the Dracula Society and the Best Novel Award from the Lord Ruthven Assembly.  It was also shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award.  The Where the Bodies are Buried book won the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection.  The Quorum, Dr Shade and Anno Dracula have all been optioned for movies.

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