Acclaimed author Michael Moorcock has signed on to pen an upcoming “Doctor Who” novel, according to the British newspaper, the Guardian.
Moorcock’s novel will be published at Christmas next year according to the report and will feature the new 11th Doctor played on screen by Matt Smith.
“Still have to have talks etc with producers and publishers but we should be signing shortly. Should be fun,” said the author, perhaps best known for his creation of anti-hero Elric of Melniboné, the doomed albino sorcerer-prince.
He said he sensed “a suspicion of the ‘outsider'” at the news from some Doctor Who fans, which he compared to the response “you used to get when someone with a reputation as a non-SF writer would decide to write an SF novel”.
“All I can answer to this is ‘wait and see’. I’m certainly not a non-watcher,” he said. “Neither am I someone who ascribes a kind of religiosity to an enthusiasm. This phenomenon crops up a lot, these days associated with SF/fantasy, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Twilight and so on. I hate these presumptions of exclusivity either in my own corner of the literary world or elsewhere. Mike Kustow, once director of the Royal Shakespeare Co, described this as ‘the anxious ownership syndrome’, when faced with his first confrontation with SF fandom in Brighton 1968. He’d found the same sort of expression with Shakespeare fans when someone from ‘outside’ showed an interest.”
He stressed to “Doctor Who” fans that he had been watching the television show since it began, and had been approached to write scripts or stories for years because he was known to enjoy it. “Only recently did the time feel right to me to do one,” he said. “I do have to submit it to editors so they can make sure it fits into the canon and this, of course, is understandable.”
As yet, however, the author was giving away nothing about the book’s contents, although he did say that “since the Tom Baker series, a lot of my ideas crept into the stories and so in many ways I’ll be writing a story which already echoes my own work
Now that should be interesting. Perhaps it presages an even darker turn for the Time Lord.
This is so great Doctor Who is the best there is out there in scifi right now and it just got better maybe he can pen the Doctor Who cinema movie speeking of the Doctor when is the next episode for the states?