Eighth Doctor Audios: Sword of Orion and Stones of Venice

[nwhyte]

It's only a short week in Brussels, and I somehow didn't make it to the gym, but I got through another two Eighth Doctor audios on the commute, the second and third of the Big Finish series with Paul McGann and India Fisher playing his companion Charley Pollard.

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[loveandgarbage]

At the time they came out Sword of Orion I eagerly anticipated Sword of Orion as the first cyber story since Silver Nemesis. As a child one of the first books I bought was Gerry Davis's Doctor Who and the Cyberment and I've been well disposed to the cybermeanies since then. However, at the time I was quite disappointed.

The Stones of Venice I was really looking forward to. Paul Magrs is a bloody good novelist (at the time I think he was leading the UEA creative writing course) and he'd written a couple of interesting DW novels - THe Scarlet Empress (which is worth having a look at); and Verdigris a Pertwee story laden with affectionate parody of the era. There's a literate script, and the likes of Michael Sheard seem to really enjoy playing in it.

Minuet in Hell is a different matter altogether and I'd be interested to read what you think of it in due course.

Best wishes

Scott