PAUL PARSONS is the former editor of the monthly science and technology magazine BBC Focus, and has contributed popular science articles to publications ranging from the Daily Telegraph to FHM. He holds a DPhil in cosmology and is a lifelong worshipper of Doctor Who.

THE SCIENCE OF DOCTOR WHO
Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke

Longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books 2007

There should be a copy in the glove compartment of every Tardis – Colin Baker, the sixth Doctor

Snappy, lively, journalistic… imaginative too – NATURE

As instructive as it is entertaining – Sir Patrick Moore, THE TIMES

Have you ever wondered if a sonic screwdriver could really work? How Cybermen make little Cybermen? Or where the toilets are on the Tardis?

Doctor Who arrived on British television screens in 1963. Since then, across light-years and through millennia, the journeys of the Time Lord have show us alien worlds, strange life-forms, futuristic technology and mind-bending cosmic phenomenon. Viewers cowered terrified of Daleks, were amazed with the wonders of time travel and sped through black holes into other universes and new dimensions.

The breadth and imagination of the Doctor’s adventures have made the show one of science fiction’s truly monumental success stories. Paul Parsons explains the scientific reality behind the fiction in this highly acclaimed unofficial guide.

Publisher: Icon (UK)/Johns Hopkins University Press (US)
Pub date: 30 March 2006 (UK)/3 June 2010 (US)
Length: 342 pages

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