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Doctor Who by Naomi Alderman5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() A reference to the Mandragora Helix appears in Borrowed Time. One of her favourite stories is The Masque of Mandragora. Ī longtime Doctor Who fan, Alderman has cited Peter Davison as her childhood favourite Doctor. A thrilling all-new adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit Doctor Who. Disobedience was adapted into the 2017 film of the same name, and was followed by novels The Lessons in 2010 and The Liar's Gospel in 2012.Īlderman is a regular newspaper columnist for the Guardian. She returned eight years later to write the Thirteenth Doctor short story Time Lapse for the anthology Thirteen Doctors, 13 Stories.Īlderman's prose debut was the successful 2006 novel Disobedience, a story about a rabbi's daughter whose lesbian identity causes conflict with his strict religious community. When I suggest that it all that sounds a bit like a plotline from Doctor Who, Alderman nods enthusiastically. ![]() With the 2011 publication of Borrowed Time, Alderman became the first Jewish woman to write a licensed Doctor Who novel. Naomi Alderman's The Power is now being adapted for TV. ![]() 3 In June 2017, The Power won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. 1 Its central premise is women developing the ability to release electrical jolts from their fingers, 2 thus leading them to become the dominant sex. Alderman is an English author who wrote the Eleventh Doctor BBC New Series Adventures novel Borrowed Time. The Power is a 2016 science fiction novel by the British writer Naomi Alderman. ![]()
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