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Post by kg redhead on Jan 27, 2007 5:17:31 GMT -5
Question-Mark Pyjamas
An interesting short tale which casts Benny as the Doctor's wife and Ace as their daughter! Ace's bike is a neat idea, but why would Brax be able ot do something about Garpol?
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Post by kg redhead on Jan 27, 2007 5:17:50 GMT -5
Blood Harvest
starts off terrbley slowly but soon builds up layer after layer of beautiful characterisation between chunks of badly massacred descriptions. The evental story is a cross between the film Scarface and TD's very own TV story State of Decay (to which this is a sequeL) and the mix is not done not in a good way imho (also TD later goes back and pre-seqels same TV story with a 'missing' except in The 8 Doctors retconning the 'extra' lords into existance after they were already written linierally but not temporally - now who know who taught Brannon Braga all he doesn't know about time travel )
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Post by kg redhead on Jan 27, 2007 5:18:07 GMT -5
Strange England
a simple story that starts off ok, gets bogged down in its own simplicity and massivly over-complicates itself as it tries to get out of it.
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Post by kg redhead on Jan 27, 2007 5:18:22 GMT -5
First Frontier
a NA take on the Roswell crash (although if its ever made into an e-book I demand Henry Van Staten getting the mileometer be put in as a coda ) great 2 see the Master again, although Kreer is a pretty naff nickname imho, then again JN-T already gave us the best ones, sigh.
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Post by kg redhead on Jan 27, 2007 5:18:41 GMT -5
St. Anthony's Fire
a bog standed mix of sci-fi classic, end of the world meets ruthless megalomaniac, I liked the mix better when it was made as a film called The Black Hole, as that at least had cute robots in it.
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Post by kg redhead on Jan 27, 2007 5:18:58 GMT -5
Falls the Shadow
a book I missed out on for some years, reading it now it seems quite fresh and intesting, even if it tries to ram in some bogus nonscenese about TOMTIT but refering to it in terms of The Tomorrow People story The Medusa Strain! At least the psychic contruct city was nice and original but seemed to evoke the first 2 Faction Paradox audios from BBV!
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Post by kg redhead on Jan 27, 2007 5:19:16 GMT -5
Parasite
a great story that is let down by Virgin's insistance that there be a central villain character to oppose the Doctor, it's just nott needed in this story and actually ruins the effectivness of the artifact by taking away much needed wow factor about it. If there's ever an e-book I hope Jimbo can sort this out and turn this into a perfect masterpiece
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Post by kg redhead on Jan 27, 2007 5:19:33 GMT -5
Warlock
Better than CC: Warhead - but then what isn't? Instead of OTT cyberpunk we have animal right shoved down our throats non-stop, which raises the issue of whether this is ironic or unintended. Are we animals who have no choice but to listen to only one side of the debate or is it a send up, designed to add an extra layer of empathy to the plight of Chick and the other animals? In either event the story is well-written with the usual twists and turns and a well signposted non-surprise ending.
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Post by kg redhead on Jan 27, 2007 5:19:51 GMT -5
Set Piece
An ok story, the reduced page count is something of a relief after the last couple of over-written ones. The simple story carefully weaves three storylines together into one glorious whole and serves to suddenly write Ace out of the NA's with no prior warning at all in this book and only vague hints in the last couple. Still now that the irritating companion has gone we'll have the much more complex and intriging Benny as the sole companion, so we should be thankful for small mercies.
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Post by kg redhead on Jan 27, 2007 5:20:13 GMT -5
Infinite Requiem
started off ok, but decended into bad Cyberpunk cliches and reallyyou could have taken the Doctor out of this story and put in any other leading character with no difference to the end result, for instance this would have worked just as poorly as a TNG novel...
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Post by kg redhead on Jan 27, 2007 5:20:30 GMT -5
Sanctuary
started off a bit too slow for me but the layers of characterisation really made up for it In the end I was disappointed that the evil baddie (tm) didn't get a death scene and I felt sorry for Benny that she lost out on what could have been an interesting love affair...
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Post by kg redhead on Jan 27, 2007 5:20:49 GMT -5
Human Nature
not a bad book but very dry for long sections at a time. A few extra helpings of weirdness would have helped and the gang of villains could have been a bit more powerful, they never really convinced that they were a serious threat, rather it felt like they were going through the motions without a clue as to why they did what they did (unless that's the whole point).
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Post by kg redhead on Jan 27, 2007 5:21:32 GMT -5
Original Sin
A good story with an epic pace and lots of excellent little touchs that add so much depth without getting in the way. I loved the reveal of the evil baddie (tm) and it added a lot to the overall storyline (even though it could have quite merrily happened with another evil baddie (tm) instead. The sly scene with Romana was great and the line about if Tegan could figure out the TARDIS controls then anyone could was a marvellous little jab at series continuity. All in all a very readable book and one I'd recommend to anyone
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Post by kg redhead on Jan 27, 2007 5:21:55 GMT -5
Sky Pirates
Great story but it goes on for far too long. It took me 2 full days to read it but I did enjoy most of it I liked the characters and the way they all interwove and still managed to find ways to be suspicious and cool and funny and weird and the tap dancing mongoose* told me that it ws the best book he'd read too.
* The TDM lives at 43 Chiselhurst Drive, Bromley, Kent.
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Post by kg redhead on Jan 27, 2007 5:22:13 GMT -5
Zamper
A classic case of recipe writing what doesn't quite work. All the ingredients are right (Doctor, companions, returning enemy, crazy situation, plot twists) but somehow they don't quite mix together right and the final result is a toughened mess which goes flat the moment the finale is served up.
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