Mike Tucker is een vooraanstaand expert op het gebied van special effects met een aanzienlijke ervaring bij de BBC Television Visual Effects Department, waar hij nu leiding geeft aan zijn eigen bedrijf, The Model Unit, als Effects Supervisor. Naast zijn technische prestaties is hij een gepubliceerd auteur, bekend van originele Doctor Who tie-in romans en boeken gebaseerd op de televisieserie Merlin. Tucker is ook coauteur van belangrijke non-fictie werken die de geschiedenis van special effects en televisieproductie beschrijven. Zijn bijdragen omvatten zowel de technische creatie van visuele wonderen als de narratieve verkenning van populaire televisieformats.
Discover how the designers work with the costume, make-up and special effects teams to produce the alien worlds, and how the work has evolved from the programme's `classic' era to the panoramic alien worlds and technologies that delight audiences today.
To become the dominant species in the universe. The Dalek Combat Training Manual collates intelligence gathered by Time Lords over centuries of raging wars through time and space, and is invaluable to anyone engaging the Daleks in battle.
A lift-the-flap, pop-up fairy tale, featuring a QR code to scan for a free audio reading.
"Well, I doubt you'll ever see a bigger insect." Gabby Nichols is putting her son to bed when she hears her daughter cry out. 'Mummy there's a daddy longlegs in my room!' Then the screaming starts... Alan Travers is heading home from the pub when something rushes his face — a spider's web. Then something huge and deadly lumbers from the shadows... Kevin Alperton is on his way to school when he is attacked by a mosquito. A big one. Then things get dangerous. But it isn't the dead man cocooned inside a huge mass of web that worries the Doctor. It isn't the swarming, mutated insects that make him nervous. It isn't an old man's garbled memories of past dangers that intrigue him. With the village cut off from the outside world, and the insects becoming more and more dangerous, the Doctor knows that no one is safe. Not unless he can decode the strange symbols engraved on an ancient stone circle, and unravel a mystery dating back to the Second World War.
A lift-the-flap, pop-up fairy tale, featuring a QR code to scan for a free audio reading.
The author provides an intimate and unfiltered account of a Marine scout/sniper platoon during their 2005-2006 combat tour. By embedding with the elite unit, the narrative captures the harrowing experiences and unique perspectives of the snipers, offering readers an exclusive oral history from the front lines. This raw and provocative exploration reveals the complexities of warfare and the personal stories behind the soldiers' experiences.
Well, I doubt you'll ever see a bigger insect. Gabby Nichols is putting her son to bed when she hears her daughter cry out.
A mysterious new knight arrives in Camelot for the sword tournament. His fighting skills are impressive but Merlin suspects that dark magic is involved. With Prince Arthur next in line to fight, time is running out for Merlin to prove that evil is afoot.
Here on Saturn, it literally rains diamonds. For over fifteen years the crew of Kollo-Zarnista Mining Facility 27 has been extracting diamonds from deep within the atmosphere of Saturn, diamonds that help to fund the ever-expanding Human Empire.
Arriving amid the chaos, the Doctor and Ace embark on a trail that brings them face to face with hidden Nazi agents, and encounter some very old enemies... An adventure featuring the Seventh Doctor, as played by Sylvester McCoy, and his companion Ace