In which there are the last waltz, dust to dust, and lives after death
- The last waltz: if only love had a rewind button!
- Headline of the [random time period]: Essex 'Van' Gogh makes art on mucky vans to 'make drivers smile' (@BBC, click for pics).
- Reading, books 2016, 45.
45. The Pirate Loop, by Simon Guerrier, 2007, is another original Doctor Who novel featuring the tenth Doctor and Martha Jones. It veers from above average to below average and back again without much in between. My favourite aspects were (1) the class war rhetoric (also anti-violence, pro-conservation, anti-capitalist, and pro-humane decency towards all sentients and our dependents), (2) Mrs Wingsworth the posh be-tentacled alien (who saves Martha's life at one point), (3) the gratuitous Captain Scarlet reference (although I can't see Ten as a fanboy rly), and (4) the terrible puns (especially badger/human hybrids being supposedly categorised as "Homo sapiens sapiens meles meles meles", and their spaceship being called the "Mandelbrot Sett", hee!). (3.5/5)
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- Headline of the [random time period]: Essex 'Van' Gogh makes art on mucky vans to 'make drivers smile' (@BBC, click for pics).
- Reading, books 2016, 45.
45. The Pirate Loop, by Simon Guerrier, 2007, is another original Doctor Who novel featuring the tenth Doctor and Martha Jones. It veers from above average to below average and back again without much in between. My favourite aspects were (1) the class war rhetoric (also anti-violence, pro-conservation, anti-capitalist, and pro-humane decency towards all sentients and our dependents), (2) Mrs Wingsworth the posh be-tentacled alien (who saves Martha's life at one point), (3) the gratuitous Captain Scarlet reference (although I can't see Ten as a fanboy rly), and (4) the terrible puns (especially badger/human hybrids being supposedly categorised as "Homo sapiens sapiens meles meles meles", and their spaceship being called the "Mandelbrot Sett", hee!). (3.5/5)
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