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And certainly for them, if nobody else, this collection is superb. Sometimes the quality is nearer a four star rating than five, but the mass of talent and writing shows everyone taking the task to hand in a strong way, and putting their all into fitting into the franchise with intelligence and respect. So many people writing for an established series try and do on the page what can't be afforded or managed on screen, and that doesn't happen here, but that's down to the short format and the fact that Doctor Who has always managed in one manner or another to show us the incredible. These fantasies at their best are fantastic, however, and take us from the early Who, when the black and white episodes (and the science in them) wobbled, to the gloss of current days, when the timey-wimey stuff still wobbles. This itself is a glossy, and most fitting, keepsake for any fan, unless perhaps you remembered getting the same present last year.

Larks in space - or [[Cakes in Space by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre]] even - can be had with this book, or any connected to anybody involved in the collection at hand.