”Doctor Who” is the longest running sci-fi tv series in the world, since November, 1963 with episode “An Unearthly Child” to its cancellation in 1989 with "Survival". It had a tv movie in 1996, and a very succesful return since 2005, with a modern view. Our book “The Bliss of Fatal Death” is to be released this November, 2011: it’s an essay about the Doctor’s mythology, the one it’s inspired and those that inspired it, both classical and modern myths that have boosted a narrative arch expansive and rich.
One Last Great Time War. Eleven Doctors. Dozens of companions. Hundreds of episodes.
And always a constant element, always meaningful, either as a threat or a friend, never too far away: DEATH.
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