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3.6 AVERAGE
3.6 AVERAGE
Asks the question "what if Douglas Adams asked P.G. Wodehouse to write a Doctor Who story?", and even comes up with a plausible answer. Full review: https://fakegeekboy.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/the-virgin-missing-adventures-from-the-empire-of-glass-to-the-knoll-of-grass/
adventurous
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence
adventurous
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This really is Doctor Who at its absolute best, harkening to stories such as The City of Death or Shada, it brings a fantastic chemistry between the TARDIS crew and a great host of characters all wonderfully fleshed out and brought to the fore in a tale that is impossible to put down.
Zodaal wishes to destroy the Earth in order to power his spaceship, The Doctor, Romana and K9 don't want this to happen. And so, with a group of outlandish characters, they set about defeating this menace in a way that's not convuluted but thrilling and exciting every step of the way. The division of labour between many of the characters allows us to follow a series of different threads at the same time and they all come together at the end to provide a brilliantly satisfying conclusion.
The characters of The Fourth Doctor and Romana are writted down to a tee. The interactions between them feel so real and lifelike that you'd be hardpressed to believe that it's not The Doctor and Romana writing themselves on the page. The other characters in the story are wonderfully developed also, with excellent characterisations and motivations that allows so many of our heroes to feel full of life and brings us to care about them, and what their ultimate fates may be.
With some fantastic prose and an easy reading style, it's one that can be picked up again and again, but before I do so I'll definitely be listening to the Big Finish adaptation.
A great earthbound story that really utilises the setting, and though this isn't as grand as something like The Romance of Crime, the setting suited the story, and the story filled the setting. Brilliantly realised.
Zodaal wishes to destroy the Earth in order to power his spaceship, The Doctor, Romana and K9 don't want this to happen. And so, with a group of outlandish characters, they set about defeating this menace in a way that's not convuluted but thrilling and exciting every step of the way. The division of labour between many of the characters allows us to follow a series of different threads at the same time and they all come together at the end to provide a brilliantly satisfying conclusion.
The characters of The Fourth Doctor and Romana are writted down to a tee. The interactions between them feel so real and lifelike that you'd be hardpressed to believe that it's not The Doctor and Romana writing themselves on the page. The other characters in the story are wonderfully developed also, with excellent characterisations and motivations that allows so many of our heroes to feel full of life and brings us to care about them, and what their ultimate fates may be.
With some fantastic prose and an easy reading style, it's one that can be picked up again and again, but before I do so I'll definitely be listening to the Big Finish adaptation.
A great earthbound story that really utilises the setting, and though this isn't as grand as something like The Romance of Crime, the setting suited the story, and the story filled the setting. Brilliantly realised.
The Doctor, Romana, and K-9 arrive in London 1930 and quickly find themselves facing off against sentient gas, brain-eating zombies, Italian assassins, and time-travelling retirees. Like much of the best Doctor Who, it's deeply queer-coded. Also, like much of Doctor Who, its basically a runaround without much story to hold it together. The success of these stories usually comes down to the storyteller. In this case, the author is a very good Doctor Who writer. He's funny and he's got the voice of the characters exactly right. But he's also a hateful bigot, which is a tremendous drag. The good news is, I think this book and all of his other Doctor Who novels are out-of-print so you can track down a used copy without worrying about putting money in his pockets.
adventurous
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
The Doctor and Romana face zombies from space in the 1930's.
It could be marvelous, but it's just a good story that captures the feel of the 4th Doctor's era. The problem? Well, it's a book written in the 1990's that feels like TV from the 1970's. There could be more depth to it or it could be more ambitious. As it is it's nice enough, you know, like biscuits. Made me laugh.
It could be marvelous, but it's just a good story that captures the feel of the 4th Doctor's era. The problem? Well, it's a book written in the 1990's that feels like TV from the 1970's. There could be more depth to it or it could be more ambitious. As it is it's nice enough, you know, like biscuits. Made me laugh.
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2348592.html[return][return]It's a fairly standard story, with zombies and a disembodies evil mist, but gives some excellent lines to the Doctor, Romana and K9, as they romp around the English countryside of the 1930s saving the world again. What makes it of interest for New Who fans is that Gareth Roberts used the same time period for the Ten/Donna TV story The Unicorn and the Wasp - it doesn't lean too heavily on the earlier book, but the background is there if you care to look for it.