The extent is enough that I’ve seen this called a “glorified PETA handbook”, but it honestly never goes to that extreme (I can’t imagine Cartmel approving of PETA’s kill shelters, for one thing). No, what I want to do is tell you to go onto Amazon or eBay as fast as possible so you can pay the late tax and get your hands on this excellent book yourself before someone else does.Ĭat lovers be warned, Andrew Cartmel has some hot takes about animal testing and he knows which household pet you’d least like to see being tortured for the sake of advancements in medicine (still more restrained than Mark Gatiss though). Look, I do not want to get into how much the Cartmel Masterplan did or didn’t actually exist, or how there might be a Furmanism on page 60 that I’ll have to look into later to see if it’s a reference or just how British people write. Or, alternatively, “Cartmel actually has zero interest in what expectations the fandom at the time had burdened him with and wants to write a story about drugs and animal testing, with an almost nonexistent science-fiction element that’s a soft sequel to another book he wrote, which also did not deal with anything related to the Cartmel Masterplan”. It’s 1995, Doctor Who still isn’t back on television, but at least Andrew Cartmel is back to tell us more of his Masterplan. So is Warlock by Andrew Cartmel one of them? Of course it is! It’s Andrew Cartmel! Let’s talk about it! Image Courtesy BBC Studios, BritBox The Wilderness Years gave us so many great Doctor Who novels.

What makes it stand out as a New Adventure? By Robert Daniel 2 years ago Along with their friend Benny, the Seventh Doctor and Ace feature in Andrew Cartmel’s novel Warlock.

Doctor Who by Andrew Cartmel