Feeling very stupid here....

[donutsweeper]

So I was perusing the big bang website (and have I mentioned how awesome it is yet?) and saw a section of fandom labeled "New Adventures (Virgin)" and another labeled "Chalet School" and I had no idea what either are.  Wiki explained that Chalet School was apparently a series of books , I assume there is no other Doctor Who connection to them?  And, also relying on wiki, I saw that New Adventures is a series of Doctor Who books, but I was wondering if I need to be familiar with either series of books to understand the bigbang stories written within their universe.  Anyone know?

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[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

The New Adventures basically took the 'Cartmel Master Plan' that obviously never made Doctor Who (as it was scrapped) and worked it into a series of books that now are of a dubious canonical nature (the whole idea of Time Lords being 'loomed' I think comes from the New Adventures novels. You can download the last one, Lungbarrow, off the BBC website. I haven't finished reading it yet as I keep getting distracted by fanfic). Certain of the characters that you might meet in a NA fic would have a back story of which you might not be aware, such as Benny, or have gone off in a direction that doesn't quite sit right with subsequent Big Finish stuff (such as Ace the dalek hunter).

If you've wiki'd both, I think that should probably be enough. I only ever read about 8 of the NA novels and there are a *lot* more than that. I read a bunch of the Chalet School novels as a kid, but haven't read any for about 30 years. They have no connection to Doctor Who whatsoever, apart from what you get in twisted crossover-writers minds. *g*

Oh I've just noticed it's a tie in to the original version of Human Nature, which involved the 7th Doctor and Benny. You can download that off the BBC too from here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/ebooks/human_nature/index.shtml) in varying formats, or read it online.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

I was wondering that, too.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

ooh, thanks. Okay, I think I'll read up a bit more on the series before taking a stab at the bigbang stories about them. I'll probably wait to read the stories till I've more time then.

It's a bit weird that there were two of those chalet school ones though

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

From what aeron_lanart says it looks like we won't get too confused by it all, but I'm glad yo see I wasn't the only one who had no idea what they were about!

[phoenix64.livejournal.com]

Actually, somewhere around LJ there is a community that is Made Of Crack that has all of Doctor Who past and present as students and teachers in a boarding school. I couldn't tell you for sure if it's specifically a crossover with Chalet School, but I wouldn't be surprised.

Hmm, do I want to try and hunt this puppy down? I saw it aaaaages ago.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

well, you do have 20 something bigbangs easily findable at the moment.... but all the present AND past companions? What a handful those lot would be!