Continuing our Who at 50 wallpaper extravaganza, we are very happy to add to the site three new wallpapers capturing the adventures of the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctors. Each one comes in two sizes, so hopefully you will find one to fit your particular monitor.

The series will conclude later in the year with wallpapers featuring Doctors Nine, Ten and Eleven.

You can find these and many more wallpapers here.

I have also added an archive of covers and disc labels for all of our older productions. Many of these are still extremely popular, so this will make it easier for people to put their discs in an attractive box for their shelf. You can find the archive here.

There are a smattering of small updates to the In the Comics features, most notably in the First, Seventh, Tenth, Eleventh and Doctorless articles. These generally add in recent reprints to bring things up to date.

We have updates and additions to many of our comic strip articles, but none larger than our Eleventh Doctor section which has now been extensively updated and revised to include all of the comic strips published in 2012 and all of the rereleases from previous years.

This includes all of the strips published in Doctor Who Magazine, Doctor Who Adventures and Doctor Who IDW.

There are now almost five hundred images in this section alone, including just about every cover available (thank you IDW for significantly boosting that number) plus detailed synopses for every single strip, not to mention writing, art, lettering and editorial credits, and - just to give you something to disagree with - our own personal review of each and every story. We hope whatever we say gives you reason to search out and read the strip for yourself so you can form your own opinion.

As ever, you can let us know what you think, or let us know of corrections or additions, by emailing us at empire639@msn.com.

Out for a few weeks now is the Special Edition of The Aztecs, which includes not only the recently returned episode of Galaxy Four entitled Airlock, but also an abridged reconstruction of the remaining three episodes.

For this reconstruction (originally created for inclusion on The Time Meddler DVD back in 2008) I created animations of the Chumblies (Chris Petts handled the Rills) and various model and composite shots, including the Rill and Drahvin spaceships and the surface of the unnamed planet.

It has received some excellent reviews. You can see a selection of images from the production (and other BBC DVDs I have worked on) on my professional website here.

Steve Moore, comic strip author of Abslom Daak - Dalek Killer, Star Tigers and a host of other strips from Doctor Who Weekly and Doctor Who Monthly (you can read interviews and view exclusive material on our site here) has released a fascinating novel, the details of which, taken from the press release, are below.

Written in the early years of the 21st century, when the author was engaged in dream-explorations and mystical practices centred on the Greek moon-goddess Selene, Somnium is an intensely personal and highly-embroidered fictional tapestry that weaves together numerous historical and stylistic variations on the enduring myth of Selene and Endymion. Ranging through the 16th to 21st centuries, it combines mediæval, Elizabethan, Gothic and Decadent elements in a fantastic romance of rare imagination.

With its delirious and heartbroken text spiralling out from the classical myth of Endymion and the Greek lunar goddess Selene, Somnium is an extraordinary odyssey through love and loss and lunacy, illuminated by the silvery moonlight of its exquisite language.

With an afterword by Alan Moore, whose biographical piece Unearthing details the life of his friend and mentor Steve Moore, and includes the circumstances surrounding the writing of  Somnium.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Steve Moore has written comic-books, novels and non-fiction, including Abslom Daak, Laser-Eraser & Pressbutton, Hercules and The Trigrams of Han. He also had a long-standing editorial connection with Fortean Studies and Fortean Times, to which he has been a frequent contributor since its inception. He lives in London.

Alan Moore is the internationally famous author of such graphic classics as Lost Girls, Promethea, From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Alan’s biography of Steve Moore, Unearthing, is available as an audio-recording and a forthcoming book from Lex Records, and will shortly be released in app form, illustrated by noted photographer Mitch Jenkins.

The novel is available in hardback from the Strange Attractor website and also via Amazon, with a paperback edition expected to follow. It is also available via Amazon and other ebook outlets as a Kindle book.

Having written countless comic strips for the first and second Doctors in the pages of TV Comic back in the 1960s and early 1970s, Roger Noel Cook is no stranger to the pages of Altered Vistas (see here for an exclusive interview with the man).

Roger has recently returned to the field of writing, penning his first espionage thriller Adapt or Die.

Steve Rawlings is a premier league hacker and cyber thief. He has no moral compass. Rampaging across four continents he plunders banks, corporations, Iran’s nuclear program and even sells Pentagon weapon secrets to the Chinese. His only religion is money but nothing this rewarding lasts forever. Eventually, as the world closes in, all you can do is run and at that point ...

... it’s time to ADAPT OR DIE!

The novel, which is available through Amazon (click here for UK site, and here for US site) as a Kindle book, was described by The Daily Express as follows:

“Tense espionage thriller rages across four continents. Watch out Jason Bourne... Steve Rawlings is coming!”