A novella and a novel in the ongoing spinoff series about the Brigadier from Doctor Who.

Second paragraph of third chapter of The Life of Evans, by John Peel: For the first time in his life, Evans actually felt as though he was fitting in.
Private Evans is a minor character in the TV story The Web of Fear, and here he gets a nice backstory all his ( Read more... )

(This was the last review I had written before I went down with COVID. if you have been wondering how I kept up my daily book posts for the last week, it's because they had all been written some time before...)

Second paragraph of third story ("Eve of the Fomorians", by Robert Mammone):All Danny saw was the faintest edge of the moon: pale and ( Read more... )

Second paragraph of third story (“The Ambush”, by Andy Frankham-Allen): The colonel looked back at his squad. They’d made it as far as Charing Cross Station before the fungus stuff blocked their way. Up until now it had been safer to travel on foot through the Underground tunnels, but the Yeti had started advancing there too. Spreading out that web ( Read more... )

Second paragraph of third story ("Earth", by Jim Mortimore)It hunched on a plain of black glass beneath a dully shining, blotched red globe which covered three quarters of the sky. A human being from the twentieth century might have recognised the creature as an ant, though they certainly wouldn't have recognised the cool, bloated orb which the hot ( Read more... )

Lethbridge-Stewart: Beast of Fang Rock, by Andy Frankham-Allan

Second paragraph of third chapter: Hamilton pulled in a few favours and Fang Rock was once again off-limits for all but essential personnel and Owain, who Lethbridge-Stewart had asked to remain at the lighthouse, along with the BBC cameraman, one James Ratcliffe Saunders. Meanwhile a D ( Read more... )