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Summary: Best Elements of the 3rd Doctor
Review: An exciting and intriguing plot told with dialogue and characterizations that ring true to all the beloved early Pertwee years Dr. Who characters: Liz Shaw, Yates, Benton and Lethbridge-Stewart. Pertwee's Doctor was always concerned with social issues that blended into adult plotlines without ever overshadowing the story and characters. Like Pertwee TV stories, this book mixes scifi, espionage, and a taste of horror (which was later exploited fully in the Baker years) and delivers all of these elements with style and vigorous pacing that never allows any single element or character to get in the way of an exciting tale. It is a guilty pleasure that surpasses expectations. Like the early Pertwee stories, it offers a satisfying plot, fully-developed characters and the same sense or reality that made the first seasons of the third Doctor seem so relevant.
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Summary: Best Elements of the 3rd Doctor
Review: An exciting and intriguing plot told with dialogue and characterizations that ring true to all the beloved early Pertwee years Dr. Who characters: Liz Shaw, Yates, Benton and Lethbridge-Stewart. Pertwee's Doctor was always concerned with social issues that blended into adult plotlines without ever overshadowing the story and characters. Like Pertwee TV stories, this book mixes scifi, espionage, and a taste of horror (which was later exploited fully in the Baker years) and delivers all of these elements with style and vigorous pacing that never allows any single element or character to get in the way of an exciting tale. It is a guilty pleasure that surpasses expectations. Like the early Pertwee stories, it offers a satisfying plot, fully-developed characters and the same sense or reality that made the first seasons of the third Doctor seem so relevant.
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Summary: Much better than the title suggests
Review: This third Doctor novel, set between seasons seven and eight of the TV series, has got to have one of the hokiest names ever forced upon the reading public. But don't judge a book by its title.An alien object breaks up when entering Earth's atmosphere, and you know that means we're in for alien visitors. The matter is duly reported to the Doctor, but he is having problems of his own. Someone is trying to kidnap him... This story contains some globe-spanning intrigue as well as a new menace from beyond Earth (from Triton, one of the moons of Neptune, to be precise - the hokey name had to come from somewhere...), and, following on from the more "adult" tone of season seven, UNIT is not the happy family you might have expected from season eight. A decent read, with quite a few plot twists which may surprise you.
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Summary: Much better than the title suggests
Review: This third Doctor novel, set between seasons seven and eight of the TV series, has got to have one of the hokiest names ever forced upon the reading public. But don't judge a book by its title. An alien object breaks up when entering Earth's atmosphere, and you know that means we're in for alien visitors. The matter is duly reported to the Doctor, but he is having problems of his own. Someone is trying to kidnap him... This story contains some globe-spanning intrigue as well as a new menace from beyond Earth (from Triton, one of the moons of Neptune, to be precise - the hokey name had to come from somewhere...), and, following on from the more "adult" tone of season seven, UNIT is not the happy family you might have expected from season eight. A decent read, with quite a few plot twists which may surprise you.
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Summary: Not too bad at all
Review: Wish I could say more than "not bad", and the truth is it ISN'T a bad book, but it isn't quite the Doctor Who we're used to. It almost feels as if Ian Fleming or Ken Follet contributed to this book, lots of "spy stuff" and policital intrigue. It's good to see UNIT back, with Lethbridge- Stewart, Yates, and Benton, but it's all a bit strange, Key to the story are an American spy who infiltrates UNIT for information, leaving a trail of bodies and destruction behind him; and Russian guerillas determined to abduct the Doctor to solve their problems of a mysterious mine in the tundra, from which no human investigators return. Meanwhile, the Doctor is being jumped upon and nibbled on by--you guessed it--Devil Goblins from Neptune. There's a bit too much Spy VS Spy-type activity, and not enough of the Doctor, who seems to be unconscious through quite a bit of the book. Once or twice I began to wonder if the author had forgotten the Doctor altogether. It picks up towards the end when the Doctor becomes more active and prepares to avert a nuclear attack by the Devil Goblins. If you find it a bit hard to start on, as I did, I recommend you keep going, the pace changes frequently enough to keep you interested and hanging on, but not so quickly that you can't keep track of what's happening. I was pleasantly surprised with a book I thought I would end up laying aside, and thoroughly enjoyed as it went on.
Rating:
Summary: Not too bad at all
Review: Wish I could say more than "not bad", and the truth is it ISN'T a bad book, but it isn't quite the Doctor Who we're used to. It almost feels as if Ian Fleming or Ken Follet contributed to this book, lots of "spy stuff" and policital intrigue. It's good to see UNIT back, with Lethbridge- Stewart, Yates, and Benton, but it's all a bit strange, Key to the story are an American spy who infiltrates UNIT for information, leaving a trail of bodies and destruction behind him; and Russian guerillas determined to abduct the Doctor to solve their problems of a mysterious mine in the tundra, from which no human investigators return. Meanwhile, the Doctor is being jumped upon and nibbled on by--you guessed it--Devil Goblins from Neptune. There's a bit too much Spy VS Spy-type activity, and not enough of the Doctor, who seems to be unconscious through quite a bit of the book. Once or twice I began to wonder if the author had forgotten the Doctor altogether. It picks up towards the end when the Doctor becomes more active and prepares to avert a nuclear attack by the Devil Goblins. If you find it a bit hard to start on, as I did, I recommend you keep going, the pace changes frequently enough to keep you interested and hanging on, but not so quickly that you can't keep track of what's happening. I was pleasantly surprised with a book I thought I would end up laying aside, and thoroughly enjoyed as it went on.
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