A brand new Physician Who anthology, Adventures Throughout House and Time: A Physician Who Reader, brings collectively key educational, critic and fan writings about Physician Who alongside newly-commissioned work addressing modern points and debates to type a complete information to the broader Whoniverse.

The perennially well-liked BBC sequence holds a singular place within the historical past of tv and of TV fandom: the longest working science-fiction present, the sequence and its fan communities have tracked social and cultural modifications over its 60 yr lifetime.

The reader presents basic writings on Physician Who and its fandom by main students together with John Fiske, Henry Jenkins, John Tulloch and Matt Hills, but additionally represents writings and artwork by followers, together with followers who went on to grow to be showrunners, writers and even the Physician himself, with contributions by Steven Moffat, Chris Chibnall, Douglas Adams and Peter Capaldi.

The anthology addresses Physician Who‘s showrunners, Medical doctors, companions, enemies and collaborators in addition to points and debates round queer fandom, intersectionality, the ‘wokeness’ of the Physician, fan media together with web sites, podcasts and vlogs, fan activism and questions of race and sexuality in relation to the present and its spin-offs. It considers Physician Who as a peculiarly British phenomenon but additionally one which has delighted, engaged and generally enraged viewers all over the world.

The anthology consists of Peter Capaldi’s Dalek-Builders letter to Radio Occasions when he was 15 years outdated, Steven Moffat’s 1995 rec.arts.drwho submit, Paul Cornell’s Canonicity in Physician Who and plenty of extra contributions from numerous writers and artists.

Adventures Throughout House and Time: A Physician Who Reader, is on the market now, printed by Bloomsbury.