{"id":36305,"date":"2022-08-23T00:41:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/?p=36305"},"modified":"2022-08-24T15:08:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T14:08:03","slug":"out-now-obverse-books-black-archive-60-the-sun-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/2022\/08\/23\/out-now-obverse-books-black-archive-60-the-sun-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"Out Now: Obverse Books’ Black Archive #60 – The Sun Makers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The latest installment in Obverse Books’ The Black Archive<\/em> series is The Sun Makers<\/em>, perfect for anyone who is strangled by high taxation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Black Archive<\/em> is a range of monographs about Doctor Who<\/em> stories, and previous volumes have includes Rose, Ghost Light, Listen, Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Pandorica Opens\/ The Big Bang, The Awakening, <\/em>and The Haunting of Villa Diodati<\/em>. The Sun Makers<\/em> adds to the wealth of Fourth Doctor content in the range, alongside Image of the Fendahl, Pyramids of Mars, The Stones of Blood, Horror of Fang Rock<\/em>, and The Hand of Fear<\/em>, to name just a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, because The Sun M<\/em>akers<\/em> is the 60th volume in the Archive<\/em>, there’s a huge number of fascinating material already available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the blurb for The Black Archive #60: The Sun Makers<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Don\u2019t you think commercial imperialism is as bad as military conquest?\u2019<\/p>

The Sun Makers<\/em> takes Doctor Who<\/em> not just to the edge of the Solar System far in the future, but also to the edge of what the series can accomplish. Drawing on the brutal history of the British East India Company, Georgian satire, and Holmes\u2019s contemporary British 1970s world of tax inspectors, striking workers, and missed production targets.<\/p>

The Sun Makers <\/em>is an adult dystopian political and economic satire where the monster is a bureaucratic Company and the Doctor\u2019s allies are criminals and violent proletarian revolutionaries. And there are some jokes about tax in there as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The book is written by Lewis Baston, who regularly writes about politics, elections, history, and travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Black Archive #60: The Sun Makers<\/em> is out now from Obverse Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“These ‘taxes’… they are like sacrifices to tribal gods?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"Out Now: @obversebooks' #DoctorWho Black Archive #60 - The Sun Makers","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[278],"tags":[32,373,6936,374,2352,87,2353,1381,41],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/The-Sun-Makers-4th-Fourth-Tom-Baker-Collector.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36244,"url":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/2022\/08\/17\/obverse-books-announces-new-titles-for-its-2023-black-archive-schedule\/","url_meta":{"origin":36305,"position":0},"title":"Obverse Books Announces New Titles for Its 2023 Black Archive Schedule","author":"Philip Bates","date":"17 August 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Next year, expect books on First, Second, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Doctor stories.","rel":"","context":"In "Merchandise"","block_context":{"text":"Merchandise","link":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/category\/news\/doctor-who-merchandise\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-Girl-Who-Died-12th-Twelfth-Doctor-Peter-Capaldi.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-Girl-Who-Died-12th-Twelfth-Doctor-Peter-Capaldi.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-Girl-Who-Died-12th-Twelfth-Doctor-Peter-Capaldi.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-Girl-Who-Died-12th-Twelfth-Doctor-Peter-Capaldi.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":36353,"url":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/2022\/09\/04\/reviewed-obverse-books-black-archive-60-the-sun-makers\/","url_meta":{"origin":36305,"position":1},"title":"Reviewed: Obverse Books’ Black Archive #60 — The Sun Makers","author":"Frank Danes","date":"4 September 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Shining a light on Robert Holmes, Marxist economics, inflation in the 1970s, and much more!","rel":"","context":"In "Reviews"","block_context":{"text":"Reviews","link":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/category\/reviews\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/The-Black-Archive-60-The-Sun-Makers-wraparound.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/The-Black-Archive-60-The-Sun-Makers-wraparound.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/The-Black-Archive-60-The-Sun-Makers-wraparound.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/The-Black-Archive-60-The-Sun-Makers-wraparound.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":26985,"url":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/2020\/05\/03\/out-now-obverse-books-the-black-archive-the-robots-of-death\/","url_meta":{"origin":36305,"position":2},"title":"Out Now: Obverse Books’ The Black Archive – The Robots of Death","author":"Philip Bates","date":"3 May 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest instalment of Obverse Books' Black Archive series is available now, and examines a much-loved Fourth Doctor classic: The Robots of Death (1977). 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