The sister book to the 2011 Hugo Award-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords…
In Chicks Unravel Time, Deborah Stanish (Whedonistas) and L.M. Myles bring together a host of award-winning female writers, media professionals and scientists to examine each season of new and classic Doctor Who from their unique perspectives.
Diana Gabaldon discusses how Jamie McCrimmon inspired her best-selling Outlander series, and Barbara Hambly (Benjamin January Mysteries) examines the delicate balance of rebooting a TV show. Seanan McGuire (Toby Daye series) reveals the power and pain of waiting in Series 5, and Una McCormack (The King’s Dragon) argues that Sylvester McCoy’s final year of Doctor Who is the show’s best season ever.
Other contributors include Juliet McKenna (Einarrin series), Tansy Rayner Roberts (Power and Majesty), Sarah Lotz (The Mall), Martha Wells (The Cloud Roads), Joan Frances Turner (Dust), Rachel Swirsky (“Fields of Gold”), Aliette de Bodard (Obsidian and Blood series) and Amal El-Mohtar (The Honey Month).
Full list of essays included in this book:
- Regeneration – Shaping the Road Ahead by Barbara Hambly
- The Doctor’s Balls by Diana Gabaldon
- A Dance With Drashigs by Emma Nichols
- No Competition by Una McCormack
- Identity Crisis by L.M. Myles
- The Still Point by Anna Bratton
- For the Love of Tom by Sarah Lotz
- Donna Noble Saves the Universe by Martha Wells
- I’m From the TARDIS, and I’m Here to Help You: Barbara Wright and the Limits of Intervention by Joan Frances Turner
- I Robot, You Sarah Jane: Sexual Politics in Robot by Kaite Welsh
- Between Now and Now by Juliet E. McKenna
- What Would Romana Do? by Lara J. Scott
- The Women We Don’t See by K. Tempest Bradford
- The Ultimate Sixth by Tansy Rayner Roberts
- Maids and Masters: The Distribution of Power in Doctor Who Series Three by Courtney Stoker
- Robots, Orientalism and Yellowface: Minorities in the Fourteenth Season of Doctor Who by Aliette de Bodard
- David Tennant’s Bum by Laura Mead
- Superficial Depth?: Spirituality in Season Eleven by Caroline Symcox
- The Problem With Peri by Jennifer Pelland
- All of Gallifrey’s a Stage: The Doctor in Adolescence by Teresa Jusino
- All the Way Out to the Stars by Iona Sharma
- Build High for Happiness! by Lynne M. Thomas
- Nimons are Forever by Liz Barr
- Ace Through the Looking Glass by Elisabeth Bolton-Gabrielsen
- Hey, You Got Science in My Fiction! by Laura McCullough
- Seven to Doomsday: The Non-Domestication of Earthbound Doctor Who in Season Seven by Mags Halliday
- Harking Back and Moving On by Jenni Hughes
- Anything Goes by Deborah Stanish
- How the Cold War Killed the Fifth Doctor by Erica McGillivray
- Waiting for the Doctor: The Women of Series Five by Seanan McGuire
- Timing Malfunction: Television Movie + the BBC Eighth Doctor Novels = A Respectable Series by Kelly Hale
- Guten Tag, Hitler by Rachel Swirsky
- Reversing Polarities: The Doctor, the Master and False Binaries in Season Eight by Amal El-Mohtar
