The Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack seem to be on a universe wide quest for chips. The planet they're on this time has chips which are soft, slightly peppery, oily and, more importantly, blue. Still, the chips add a bit of colour in a world which is uniformly grey and where every building looks ... Read review
In the far future the Doctor Rose and Captain Jack find a world on which fiction has ... more
been outlawed: a world where it's a crime to tell stories a crime to lie a crime to hope and a crime to dream. But now somebody is challenging the status quo. A p...
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Dreams and nightmares
Advantages: Engaging and thoughtprovoking Disadvantages: Hard to put down
...ahead of them. As always, Doctor Who returns us to the world of fantasy where it does the job it's supposed to do. Entertaining and distracting us.
A brilliant read, hard to put down and with the perfect blend of adventure, sympathy and sheer rebellion which this combination of characters always gives us. ... more
The Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack seem to be on a universe wide quest for chips. The planet they're on this time has chips which are soft, slightly peppery, oily and, more importantly, blue. Still, the chips add a bit of colour in a world which is uniformly grey and where every building looks the same.
Far in the future, a colony of humans on a distant planet are burning fossil fuels and suppressing all forms of imagination. The three travellers are determined to break down the barriers and help people to dream, each in their own individual ways, but the dangers of dreaming are more serious than they imagine.
The Stealers of Dreams has an imaginative premise and follows it through well. The characters are as we know and love them, with Captain Jack telling his tall stories in bars, Rose hitting the streets with one of the locals and the Doctor, of course, heading for the highest figure of authority and annoying them until he achieves success.
The world they are visiting is well created and not hard to imagine, but it certainly offers pause for thought as we are challenged to imagine what our lives would be like without fiction of any kind. The barriers between truth and fiction are broken down and explored, creating an enemy which is all the scarier for not actually existing.
Its target audience of teenagers is perfectly targeted, with a novel which explores the land of fantasy they have just left, with the adult world ahead of them. As always, Doctor Who returns us to the world of fantasy where it does the job it's supposed to do. Entertaining and distracting us.
A brilliant read, hard to put down and with the perfect blend of adventure, sympathy and sheer rebellion which this combination of characters always gives us.
Galadriel1010 13.05.2008 (13.05.2008)
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Review of Doctor Who: The Stealers of Dreams - Steve Lyons
Doctor Who: The Stealers of Dreams.
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The travelling trio arrive in the not so far future and find that Fiction has been outlawed. In fact anything that makes the mind think too much or adds to mans desires and fantasies is against the law, the penalty being death.
Who can be controlling society with such an iron grip and more importantly why?
The Doctor, Rose and Jack arrive and soon are in touch with the resistance ... ...nothing new added to the Doctor Who legacy.
The writing is clear and crisp and the plot moves along t a brisk pace.
This is a decent read but you will forget it not long after putting it down.
Recommended to be read once but only if you're a fan.
Written by Steve Lyons. ...
MaldivesHoliday 10.02.2009
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Advantages: A page turner. Disadvantages: You will only read it the once
Doctor Who: The Stealers of Dreams.
Author - Steve Lyons.
Synopsis:
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It is the far distant future where Fiction has been outlawed and where the penalty is imprisonment or even death.
Enter stage left, The Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack. They arrive and discover that someone is organising a resistance, urging people to rebel.
To challenge the powers that be.
The Tardis crew soon become entangled in another adventure but this time the ... ...The story features:
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The Doctor - Christopher Eccleston.
Rose - Billie Piper.
Captain Jack - John Barrowman.
Opinions:
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This is like most Dr Who books in the category of "Beach book", you can pick it up, put it down or fall asleep and next time you delve into the story there will be no problem picking up the thread.
Having said that, the ending was a bit different than most of the other Dr Who novels I've read.
Aimed ...
Maximus-Qualitus 23.05.2008
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