RL: Things got a little steamy this weekend...

[daiseechain]

I put my back out late last week and spent most of this week on an exciting cocktail of painkillers and muscle relaxants, so if you had any strange comments from me or didn't get any strange comments when you were expecting some, that is probably why.

By yesterday I'd recovered enough to visit the Greatest Steampunk Exhibition at the Kew Bridge

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[daiseechain]

I'm old enough to be an old-school Who girl, and there was a lot of keeping the flame alive for the show by reading the merchandising tie-ins after it was originally cancelled, so yeah; I've read loads of them.

Some of them are crap, and some of them are brilliant. It depends entirely on who wrote them, for what Dr, and for what season, and what their own writing background was. SFX is a good source for reviews so you don't waste your time reading the half-arsed versions.

It is a bit like Mills & Boon though, in that the poor writers are forced to fit their own writing within very tight restrictions on what they can write about - they can come up with the best story in the world and get told they can't write it because that idea is about to be one of the plots for the next tv series. And a lot of people who are now professional writers got their start writing the novelisations, eg. David Bishop who went on to write and edit Judge Dredd magazine.

Basically: YMMV.

[curiouswombat]

How's the back doing now?

I rather fancy steam-punk - I'd love that exhibition, I think. I rather like the Tardis corset, too.

I keep meaning to read the Parasol Protectorate books - let us know what you think of them.

[daiseechain]

Back is doing much better thanks - although it's put my shoulder out now because of the funny angles I was holding myself on!

Steampunk is awesome. I was doing steampunk when I was a kid, before it was even a thing and not realising it.

When I eventually get through the rest of my reading list I will definitely let you know how I get on with them. See icon :-D Began reading the Moon Over Soho immediately though, which I think is a good indicator of how much I like that series.