Altrix Books has released an anthology volume, Master Switches, focusing on the Doctor’s main (fr)enemy. And it’s all in aid of The Stroke Association. These short stories cover numerous incarnations of the evil Time Lord, and act as a follow-up to the popular Master Pieces, released in 2019. Here’s what Master Switches is about: After a series of adventures without the Doctor (Master Pieces),…

The award-winning Black Archive series of Doctor Who monographs has appointed Paul Driscoll as a new editor, and will move to a bi-monthly schedule.

Since its launch in early 2016, The Black Archive from Obverse Books has established itself as a key critical work on the history of televised Doctor Who. Responding to reader feedback, the series moved to a monthly schedule in 2018, and is now…

I just had a quick plumb through the DWC archives, and have calculated that I’ve written the words “They say you should never meet your heroes” no less than six times. It is a well-worn cliché and I probably use it too much, but that doesn’t stop it being true. Meeting a hero reduces them; in turn they are instantly flawed, vulnerable, and (if you catch them on an off day) possibly a little…

Looking for some timey-wimey fiction while Doctor Who is off the TV? Altrix Books has just the thing: a new book series, The Chronosmith Chronicles, launching with After Vincent – perfect for fans of Vincent and the Doctor.

The Chronosmiths are here to put time back on its true course by correcting false and misleading histories. The first mission takes them back to the time of Vincent Van…

The first six titles in 2021 for Obverse Books’ Black Archive range have been announced, alongside news of the appointment of a new editor, Paul Driscoll, known for previous instalments in the series on The God Complex and Doctor Who (1996), not to mention the fiction imprint, Altrix Books.

The Black Archive is Obverse Books’ series of critical monographs about individual Doctor Whostories,…

Love the Eleventh Doctor? You’ll want to grab a copy of A Pile of Good Things, a new fanzine that celebrates Matt Smith’s run on Doctor Who, with profits going to charity. The unofficial publication features contributions from 30 participants, amounting to 24 full-colour illustrations, and 9 short stories.

But you’ll have to be quick: it goes of-sale on 25th November 2019.

The project is…

If you wanted an apt description of the Doctor’s nemesis, you could do a lot worse than Terrance Dicks. “You had the Doctor as Sherlock Holmes,” he’d say (I’m paraphrasing). “And the Brigadier was Watson. And so one day, I said to Barry ‘He needs a Moriarty…'”

There are worse ways to be remembered. Traditionally, the Master’s role in Doctor Whohas been to turn up at the end of an episode, tear…

Ever wonder what the Master gets up to when the Doctor isn’t around? A new charity anthology reveals all, asking whether how one can exist without the other.

Master Piecesfeatures 21 stories by 19 authors, and features an astonishing 14 Masters – and yes, that does include incarnations we’ve never even met before. Published by Altrix Books, the weighty 307-page tome is edited by Paul Driscoll (

Following the success of the original Seasons of War, we have a full-length novel, simply titled Seasons of War: Gallifrey, published by Altrix Books. Written by Paul Driscoll (The Black Archive: The God Complex) and Kara Dennison (City of the Saved), it has the full support of Declan May, the originator of Seasons of War himself. His praise is somewhat excessive, sprinkled with adjectives – all…

That wonderful institution, the Doctor Who Appreciation Society, has released the latest annual, covering the entire Twelfth Doctor era – and you can enjoy it absolutely free! The downloadable magazine covers every single episode of Peter Capaldi’s tenure as the Time Lord, including his debut in Deep Breath; the controversial Kill the Moon; the universally-applauded Mummy on the Orient Express;…

As a big fan of The God Complex, I was very much looking forward to digging into the associated Black Archive release from Obverse Books. For the uninitiated, these are book-length essays analysing every TV Doctor Who serial, and so far, there’s not been an instalment that’s been anything less than brilliant, enlightening, and essential for any book shelf. Paul Driscoll’s study of The God Complex…

It’s with great excitement that we announce an upcoming range from Obverse Books, The Silver Archive – a spin-off from the publisher’s Black Archive books. Whereas The Black Archive is a series of critical assessments of Doctor Who serials, The Silver Archive takes the same approach to other cult shows – from early BBC science fiction, through the folk horror specials of the 1970s and the…