Second paragraph of third chapter:Hard to say what they were watching for. Signs of life? A later-than-last-minute reprieve?
Having got all enthusiastic about the first of the Faction Paradox books last month, I'm afraid this left me rather cold. It's a story of a few key characters interacting with a town that is being devastated by a mysterious ( Read more... )

Second paragraph of first entry under C ("Caldera"):In itself the caldera wouldn't appear to be a remarkable site. Though now covered over, at first glance it would seem to be little more than an absence, where the Yssgaroth incursion ate away all local matter and the Houses later surrounded the area with defences and utilities of their own ( Read more... )

Second paragraph of third chapter: If you‘d asked me that at the time, I probably would have answered by staring at you. Blankly. Well, why shouldn't I have been there? That was the way we were, before the end. Me, and Cal, and Dorian, and all the others. No job, no routine, just starting my fourth year at an art college I'd actually been to only ( Read more... )

The second and third paragraphs from Chapter 3:They fed from the ship’s structure in the boot-cupboards, and played dice with the universe in the cloisters. Creations, phantasms, aberrations...
... why be coy? Monsters. They were monsters, that was all.
My peculiar reading sequence means that I read this about a month after The Adventuress of ( Read more... )

A remarkable Eighth Doctor adventure, rather horrible and misjudged in some places, striking and memorable in others; set in 1783; the Doctor gets married to a Tantric courtesan, slightly foreshadowing River Song; there are dubious scenes with Caribbean zombies and other cult practices; the Master makes a cryptic appearance; the whole thing is told ( Read more... )

Little to add to what I wrote when I first read these, except to add that in the context of the Eight Doctor Adventures as a series the story seemed slightly more rambling than taken on its own.

October Books 25) Interference Book One: Shock Tactic, by Lawrence Miles
November Books 1) Interference Book Two: The Hour of the Geek, by Lawrence Miles

( Sarah Jane Smith comes to the Eighth Doctor Adventures )

11) Alien Bodies, by Lawrence Miles

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"Have you seen a Kroton come this way?" the Doctor asked, somewhat urgently.

"Don't know. Is a Kroton a big silvery-white thing that looks like it came out of a fondue set?"

The Doctor looked surprised. "Yes, I suppose it is."

Sam jerked her thumb. "It went that way."

Lawrence Miles, Alien Bodies

1) About Time: The Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who, 1980-1984, by Lawrence Miles and Tat Wood

This is the fifth and latest so far published in this superb series of reference guides to Doctor Who (see previous reviews of volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4). It's the only one that doesn't begin or end with a change of Doctors - it encapsulates the whole Peter ( Read more... )