zmull 's review for:

Doctor Who: The English Way of Death: The History Collection by Gareth Roberts

4.0

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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.