Adventures Across Space and Time: A Doctor Who Reader

Adventures Across Space and Time brings together key academic, critic and fan writings about Doctor Who alongside newly-commissioned work addressing contemporary issues and debates to form a comprehensive guide to the wider Whoniverse.

The perennially popular BBC series holds a unique place in the history of television and of TV fandom: the longest running science-fiction show, the series and its fan communities have tracked social and cultural changes over its 60 year lifetime. Adventures Across Space and Time presents classic writings on Who and its fandom by leading scholars including John Fiske, Henry Jenkins, John Tulloch and Matt Hills, but also represents writings and art by fans, including fans who went on to become showrunners, writers or even the Doctor himself, with contributions by Steven Moffat, Chris Chibnall, Douglas Adams and Peter Capaldi.

This innovative anthology addresses Doctor Who’s showrunners, Doctors, companions, enemies and collaborators as well as issues and debates around queer fandom, intersectionality, the ’wokeness’ of the Doctor, fan media including websites, podcasts and vlogs, fan activism and questions of race and sexuality in relation to the show and its spin offs. It considers Doctor Who as a peculiarly British phenomenon but also one that has delighted, engaged and sometimes enraged viewers around the world.

Paul Booth is Professor at DePaul University, USA. He is the author/editor of 14 books, including A Fan Studies Primer (2021), Watching Doctor Who (Bloomsbury, 2020), Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (2018), Digital Fandom 2.0 (2016), and Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who (2013).

Matt Hills is Professor of Media and Film at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He is the author of six books, including Fan Cultures (2002), Triumph of a Time Lord (I.B. Tauris, 2010) and Doctor Who: The Unfolding Event (2015). He has also edited two volumes about the show, New Dimensions of Doctor Who (I.B. Tauris, 2013) and Doctor Who - New Dawn: Essays on the Jodie Whittaker Era (2021).

Joy Piedmont is a librarian and freelance writer based in New York, USA. She is co-producer of Reality Bomb, a Doctor Who podcast and is the co-creator and co-chair of Gallifrey One’s TARDIS Talks, a special track of programming giving space to big ideas and theories about Doctor Who and fandom.

Tansy Rayner Roberts is a fantasy writer based in Australia. She is co-host of the Verity! Doctor Who Podcast. She is author of Ink Black Magic (2013), Siren Beat (2010), Seacastle (2007). She won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2013.