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The Also People
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| The Also People | |
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| Series | Virgin New Adventures |
| Release number | 44 |
| Featuring | Seventh Doctor Bernice, Chris, Roz, Kadiatu |
| Writer | Ben Aaronovitch |
| Publisher | Virgin Books |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-426-20456-5 |
| Release date | November 1995 |
| Preceded by | Head Games |
| Followed by | Shakedown |
The Also People is an original novel written by Ben Aaronovitch and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Seventh Doctor, Bernice, Chris, Roz and Kadiatu.
Like all Doctor Who spin-off media, its canonicity in relation to the television series is unclear.
- The title comes from a line from Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, where Ford Prefect, in response to Arthur Dent's exclamation, "The people...! The things...!" in Milliway's, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, notes that "the things are also people."
- The setting of the novel draws unmistakeable inspiration from the science fiction novels of Iain M. Banks, in particular those concerning the highly-advanced interstellar society called the Culture. The book's Acknowledgements page fails to address this directly, presumably for legal reasons, but alludes to it with a remark that "while talent borrows and genius steals, New Adventure writers get it off the back of a lorry, no questions asked".
- Features a cameo (in a dream sequence) by a Dalek, a Cyberman and a Sontaran.
- The Also People reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
- The Also People reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide
