In
Queers Dig Time Lords, editors Sigrid Ellis (
Chicks Dig Comics) and Michael Damian Thomas (Apex Magazine) bring together essays by award-winning writers to celebrate the phenomenon that is
Doctor Who, in the tradition of the Hugo Award-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords. Tanya Huff (
Blood Ties) wears her bi-focals as she analyzes the Doctor's fluid sexuality, former
Doctor Whoscript editor Gary Russell explores the show's effect on his teenage years, Paul Magrs (
Doctor Who: Hornets' Nest) defends and celebrates the camp qualities of the series, and Melissa Scott (
Trouble and Her Friends) describes
Doctor Who's impact on her greatest love and loss. Other contributors include David Llewellyn (
Doctor Who: Night of the Humans), Rachel Swirsky (
Through the Drowsy Dark), Hal Duncan (
Ink: The Book of All Hours), Nigel Fairs (Big Finish Productions), Amal El-Mohtar (
The Honey Month), Brit Mandelo (
Beyond Binary), Mary Anne Mohanraj (Bodies in Motion), and Jed Hartman (Strange Horizons). This book features an introduction by John Barrowman (star of
Doctor Whoand
Torchwood) and Carole E Barrowman (
Hollow Earth,
Torchwood: Exodus Code). The cover art is by Colleen Coover (
Small Favors).
John Barrowmanplays Captain Jack in Doctor Who and in Torchwood. He's a Sony recording artist and has performed in numerous TV shows in the US and the UK. He has collaborated with his sister, Carole E Barrowman, on many projects, including John's autobiographies Anything Goes and I Am What I Am (2008, 2009), a comic, Captain Jack and The Selkie (2009), a fantasy novel Hollow Earth (2012) and a Torchwood novel, Exodus Code (2012).Sigrid Ellisis a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and comics; an editor; a parent of two homeschooled children; and an air traffic controller. She is best known as the co-editor (with Lynne M. Thomas) of Chicks Dig Comics: A Cel