Hasslein Books Announces New Doctor Who Essay Anthology
The company's second unauthorized Doctor Who book,
written by
Brian J. Robb and Paul Simpson, with an
introduction by
Nicholas Briggs, is now available for
order.
Hasslein Books
is pleased to announce the release of WhoBeyond 50: Celebrating Five Decades of Doctor Who, written by Brian
J. Robb and Paul Simpson. Who Beyond 50 is now available at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and CreateSpace.com, and will soon
also be available to consumers at BarnesandNoble.com, and to resellers via
Ingram, NACSCORP and CreateSpace Direct Resellers.
BBC's immensely popular Doctor
Who series, featuring an extraterrestrial Time Lord exploring the universe
aboard a time machine resembling a police call box, is a significant part of
British pop culture and a cult favorite worldwide. The series has changed
radically over the years, with thirteen actors portraying the Doctor to date,
and with more than 50 companions joining him on his adventures. Few television
series have remained in production for decades. Fewer have come back from
cancellation to spawn multiple spinoffs. And even fewer have thrived following
the loss of their lead actor. Amazingly, Doctor
Who can proudly boast all three claims.
Brian J Robb and Paul Simpson have assembled 50 thematic,
chronological essays covering a wide variety of Who icons over the past five decades. The long-time collaborators
posted preliminary versions of some of these essays at Sci-Fi Bulletin, but
have delved into far greater detail for this collected edition, examining not
only the show itself, but the background of each actor to play the role of the
Doctor and each showrunner who helped keep the series alive, as well as the
novels, audios, monsters, companions, music, effects, fandom, and much more. But
Who Beyond 50 is more than just
another TV retrospective—it's a celebration of Who's surprises and successes, and an honest account of its faults
and failures.
Brian J. Robb is a New
York Times and Sunday Times
best-selling author whose works include Timeless
Adventures: How Doctor Who Conquered TV, A Brief History of Star Trek, A
Brief History of Star Wars, Counterfeit
Worlds: Philip K. Dick on Film and Screams
and Nightmares: The Films of Wes Craven. Paul Simpson has written official guides for Farscape, Smallville, The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy and
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the
Were-Rabbit, as well as unofficial books about subjects as diverse as James
Bond, Nicole Kidman, The O.C., the Oz
mythos and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
The two authors recently collaborated on Middle-earth
Envisioned: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings: On Screen, On Stage, and
Beyond.
Who
Beyond 50, a softcover volume spanning 330 pages, is now available for
purchase. Beautifully designed, the book features an introduction by Nicholas
Briggs, a British actor, writer, director and composer closely associated with Doctor Who and its various spinoffs,
particularly as the voices of the Doctor's nemesis, the Daleks and the Cybermen. Click here for more information.
For review copies or author interviews, please contact
info@hassleinbooks.com. We would also welcome being included in year-end gift
guides, and are open to contest giveaways. To learn about Hasslein's other titles,
visit the company's website (hassleinbooks.com), Twitter feed
(twitter.com/hassleinbooks), Facebook page (facebook.com/hassleinbooks) or blog
(hassleinbooks.blogspot.com), or e-mail info@hassleinbooks.com.
ABOUT HASSLEIN PUBLISHING, LLC
Hasslein Publishing
(hassleinbooks.com), a New York-based publisher of reference guides by geeks,
for geeks, is named after Doctor Otto Hasslein, a time-travel expert portrayed
by actor Eric Braeden in the film Escape
from the Planet of the Apes. In addition to Who Beyond 50, the company's lineup of genre-based reference books
includes Timeline of the Planet of the
Apes, Lexicon of the Planet of the
Apes, The Back to the Future Lexicon,
The Back to the Future Chronology, The Red Dwarf Encyclopedia and Lost in Time and Space: An Unofficial Guide
to the Uncharted Journeys of Doctor Who, with future volumes to feature
James Bond, G.I. Joe, Alien vs. Predator, Battlestar Galactica, Ghostbusters,
Universal Monsters, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and more. Doctor Who and all related characters
and stories are copyright © BBC, with no infringement intended.
Labels: Brian J. Robb, Cybermen, Daleks, Doctor Who, Nicholas Briggs, Paul Simpson, TARDIS
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