The Eighth Doctor Adventures were getting pretty self-referential by this stage, but this is a good case study - Rose brings the Doctor, Fitz and Anji to a very well realised Victorian Engliand, where they find a rogue time machine and a stage act very reminiscent of a Christopher Priest novel that came out not long before; and there are references ( Read more... )

I'd read this Eighth Doctor Adventure five years ago, before starting my systematic read-through of the sequence, and enjoyed it well enough as effectively a standalone novel; I liked it even more as part of the series, having got to know companions Fitz and Anji rather better over the last few months of reading. In particular, the intense ( Read more... )

5) The City of the Dead, by Lloyd Rose ( Read more... )