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The Black Archive #79: The Mysterious Planet
 

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By:Jez Strickley
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Released:  6 October 2025
Publisher:  Obverse Books
ISBN:978-1-913456-64-1
Format: paperback
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Cover blurb:
‘There is no fire. There has been no fire for hundreds of years.’

Set both underground in the world of The Immortal and overground in the lands of the Tribe of the Free, The Mysterious Planet (1986) is a story awash with dualities. Jez Strickley examines questions of place and placelessness, locale and location, and topophilia and topophobia, and queries what Robert Holmes’ final Who story tells us about the ecology movement of the time.

Jez Strickley spent a decade as editor of the Canadian Doctor Who fan magazine Whotopia and has been guest editor for the Doctor Who Appreciation Society’s Celestial Toyroom magazine.


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