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	The Black Archive #76: Logopolis


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By: Jonathan Hay
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Released: 31 March 2025
Publisher: Obverse Books
ISBN: 978-1-913456-59-7
Format: paperback
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Note: Part of the standard Black Archives blurb is missing from the back cover (presumably due to a printing error) — the part which usually says: THE BLACK ARCHIVE: Book-length looks at single Doctor Who stories from 1963 to the present day
Cover blurb:
‘Structure is the essence of matter, and the essence of structure is mathematics.’

The first of Christopher H Bidmead’s diptych of scripts bringing the exit of Tom Baker’s fourth Doctor and the arrival of a new cast, Logopolis (1981) is a mournful epic of cosmic destruction, obsolescence and collapse. This Black Archive investigates the changes both in front of and behind the camera, explores the story’s themes of entropy and rebirth, and places it in the context of a specific moment in the history of computing.
Jonathan Hay is the author of Science Fiction and Posthumanism in the Anthropocene. They lecture at the University of Chester.

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