December Books 15) The Roundheads 16) The Dark Path

[nwhyte]

Two Second Doctor novels to finish off the year.

Comments

[swisstone]

I rather liked The Face of the Enemy, McIntee's continuity-heavy sort-of follow-up to The Dark Path that teams up the Master and UNIT while the Doctor's off doing Curse of Peladon.

[londonkds]

The Master backstory in The Dark Path assumingly amusingly managed to unite two normally completely incompatible groups of Who fandom against it, from what I hear. The asexualists were all "but Time Lords don't have girlfriends!" while the Doctor/Master slashers were "this is homophobically inserting an unnecessary woman into an emotional narrative that has traditionally been based on blatant homoerotic innuendo!"

[lonemagpie]

I never saw this thread at the time - the Doctor/Master slashers should know me better: I'm the one who wanted to say the pair were ex-spouses, and that their feud was an extended War of the Roses (I mean the novel and film with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner), but nobody would let me...

[londonkds]

nobody would let me...

What a difference ten years makes...

[lonemagpie]

Heh, you reviewed this on my birthday, but I was offline for the week and never saw it...

Yes, it is watvervole in the dedications