The journey starts here, with the first installment of Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Archives! Join the Doctor, Amy and Rory as they explore the wonders of time and space - where nothing is ever quite as it seems! Collecting the first three complete story arcs of Doctor Who Series 2, don't miss out on these fantastic adventures!
THE TENTH DOCTOR IS BACK, IN AN ALL-NEW ONGOING SERIES! NEW COMPANION! NEW FOES! ALLONS-Y! The Eisner Award-winning Nick Abadzis (Laika) and fan-favorite Elena Casagrande (Angel, Suicide Risk, Doctor Who, Star Trek) take control of the TARDIS for their first five-issue arc with the Tenth Doctor, as played by David Tennant! Gabriella Gonzalez is stuck in a dead-end job in her familyÕs New York Laundromat, dreaming of college and bigger, better and brighter things. So when a strange man with an even stranger big blue box barges into her life on the eve of the Day of the Dead celebrations Ð talking about an infestation of psychic aliens Ð she seizes her chance for adventure with both hands. After DonnaÕs tragic exit, the Doctor thought he was done with new companions. But Gabby Gonzalez is going to prove him wrongÉ if she survives the night! Cover by Alice X. Zhang.
Peter Seibel interviews 15 of the most interesting computer programmers alive today in Coders at Work, offering a companion volume to Apress’s highly acclaimed best-seller Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston. As the words “at work” suggest, Peter Seibel focuses on how his interviewees tackle the day-to-day work of programming, while revealing much more, like how they became great programmers, how they recognize programming talent in others, and what kinds of problems they find most interesting. Hundreds of people have suggested names of programmers to interview on the Coders at Work web site: www.codersatwork.com. The complete list was 284 names. Having digested everyone’s feedback, we selected 15 folks who’ve been kind enough to agree to be interviewed: Frances Allen: Pioneer in optimizing compilers, first woman to win the Turing Award (2006) and first female IBM fellow Joe Armstrong: Inventor of Erlang Joshua Bloch: Author of the Java collections framework, now at Google Bernie Cosell: One of the main software guys behind the original ARPANET IMPs and a master debugger Douglas Crockford: JSON founder, JavaScript architect at Yahoo! L. Peter Deutsch: Author of Ghostscript, implementer of Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5 on PDP-1 Brendan Eich: Inventor of JavaScript, CTO of the Mozilla Corporation Brad Fitzpatrick: Writer of LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached, and Perlbal Dan Ingalls: Smalltalk implementor and designer Simon Peyton Jones: Coinventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell Compiler Donald Knuth: Author of The Art of Computer Programming and creator of TeX Peter Norvig: Director of Research at Google and author of the standard text on AI Guy Steele: Coinventor of Scheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang of Five, currently working on Fortress Ken Thompson: Inventor of UNIX Jamie Zawinski: Author of XEmacs and early Netscape/Mozilla hacker
When an unseen enemy maneuvers the three Doctors into an impossible meeting, the future of the universe itself is put at stake. It will take all of the Doctor's innate cunning and adaptability to team up with his past and present selves to uncover the immensely powerful culprit, fix the time stream, and right an ancient wrong! What mysterious event from the Doctors' collective past will have an unforgettable effect on their future?! Four Doctors is the blockbuster next chapter in the stunning ongoing adventures of each Doctor - and also stars TV companion Clara Oswald alongside comics companions Gabby Gonzalez and Alice Obiefune. It's an unmissable crossover epic from two creators at the height of their craft!
Includes the collections Skyjacks, Dead Man's Hand and The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who. In this final volume of The Eleventh Doctor Archives, follow the Time Lord and his new companion Clara Oswald through the dark depths of time and space! Woeful white holes cause time-hopping troubles, an ancient evil from Gallifrey's past stands revealed, and a trip to the Wild West turns into a murder mystery ¨C with an unexpected host of historical characters! Plus, inThe Girl Who Loved Doctor Who, see what happens when the TARDIS is flung into our universe, as a young Whovian comes face-to-face with her hero! ? SKYJACKS: The TARDIS has been on the fritz, but is now completely out of control ¨C and the Doctor is nowhere to be found! Meanwhile, white holes have been forming throughout time and space, sucking in everything around them and depositing them in an endless white expanse! Clara must find the Doctor and help him figure out what is going on! ? DEAD MAN¡¯S HAND: The Doctor and Clara cross paths with Oscar Wilde and Calamity Jane in the frontier town of Deadwood, as they pay their respects to the recently passed Wild Bill Hickok. But soon they discover the grave is empty... and that the town is being plagued by a masked gunman who shoots his victims with nothing but a finger! ? THE GIRL WHO LOVED DOCTOR WHO: a strange force flings the TARDIS and the Doctor into our universe! Once here, the Doctor encounters a 10-year-old girl who happens to be a huge fan of the Doctor Who TV show. The Doctor grapples with being a fictional character and with a monster lurking at the girl's school ¨C and comes face-to-face with the actor who portrays him, Matt Smith!
Join the Tenth Doctor and Martha as they go in search of the perfect milkshake - and instead find themselves manipulated by an intergalactic Pantheon preparing for total war - then land up in a museum dedicated to the Doctor's nine previous incarnations! Featuring two sprawling time-travelling epics, this first omnibus of the Tenth Doctor's adventures is essential reading for any fan!
The journey starts here, with the first installment of Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Archives! Join the Doctor, Amy and Rory as they explore the wonders of time and space - where nothing is ever quite as it seems! Collecting the first three complete story arcs of Doctor Who Series 2, don't miss out on these fantastic adventures!
Dashing across time and space, the Eighth Doctor has had many adventures, but his greatest challenge – the Time War – is yet to come. Reeling from the loss of his dear friends Amy and Rory, the Eleventh Doctor is looking to escape reality and just have a bit of fun. Neither Doctor expects what’s about to happen next…
