Science Fiction Books

Doctor Who - Only Human

Advantages: good read
Disadvantages: standard stuff

Doctor Who: Only Human. = This is a typical Dr Who yarn and follows the Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack on yet another adventure. The Tardis picks up a temporal disturbance back on Earth. Once there they discover that time is being played with things are being brought forwards and something's sent backwards in time. The first thing they find or should that be the first someone is a Neanderthal Man! He has been brought forward ...
...evil Hy-Bractors and soon the Doctor is up to his old tricks. Whilst Captain (indestructible) Jack is using himself as bait. Rose meanwhile is about to open the grey door, she should leave it alone! Will this adventure prove too much for the Doctor? Are you kidding? This is a typical Doctor Who paperback with great writing and the usual plot. The plot does actually move along quite quickly but all in all the book holds no surprises. It is just a ...

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Review of Doctor Who: Only Human - Gareth Roberts

Captain Jack is back!

Advantages: Compelling read, creepy plot
Disadvantages: Not enough page time for Captain Jack!

...series of reviews on the Doctor Who new adventure novels is the fourth, "The Deviant Strain" by Justin Richards. **Blurb** (from the back of the book) The Novrosk Peninsula: the Soviet naval base has been abandoned, the nuclear submarines are rusting and rotting. Cold, isolated, forgotten. Until the Russian Special Forces arrive - and discover that the Doctor and his companions are here too. But there is something else in Novrosk. Something that ...
...hunting, killing... Can the Doctor and his friends stay alive long enough to learn the truth? With time running out, they must discover who is really responsible for the Deviant Strain... **Plot** (minor spoilers) The book opens strongly, with a mysterious passage about a boy who has died. We then see into the TARDIS, where our favourite crew members - the Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack - are responding to a distress call. Then the scene cuts to ...

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Review of Doctor Who: The Deviant Strain - Justin Richards

Monsters and Villains. A story by Doctor Who.

Advantages: A nice science book for the lovers of doctor who.
Disadvantages: Just science fiction; at all.

...they want to know about Doctor Who monsters? Fans of the original story will be fashined by this book: the author, Justin Richard, is author of many other books, such as The Darksmith Legacy: The Depths of Despair BK4, with the Doctor Who. The Darksmith Legacy is a serial which belong the stories by Doctor Who. This book is a celebration of the immaginative power of a descriptive mind of a writer as Justin Richards, which has the creativity that ...

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Review of Doctor Who Monsters and Villains - Justin Richards

Extraordinary

Advantages: Mindblowing, fantastic
Disadvantages: None

Takes you into a whole new area of the Culture, where the AI minds discuss the problems that are occuring since the presence of an unidentified object. It is riddled with Banks' usual wit, imagination and depth. This gives many insights into areas of the Culture I'd not wondered about before. The is much intrigue with many twists along the way. This was book I'd heard many goods things said about it, and was not disappointed. You've heard books ...

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Review of Excession - Iain M. Banks

The Foundation series continues brilliantly

Advantages: Its one of the greatest science fiction book ever written
Disadvantages: None

Foundation and Empire is my favourite of Asimovs foundation series, it continues on from Foundation and at the start of the novel Terminus has established itself as the central light in its particular area of the universe. Terminus is a stable government with an edge over its near competitors due in part to a lack of resources on the planet which forces innovation and technological advance. Foundation has been watching the slow decline of the galactic ...
...historian who has arrived at Foundation in his bid to find the original home planet of man. The historian has travelled for the first time and has learnt everything from a book, this is used as a show of decline of the empire and an example of stagnation and laziness. Eventually the empire starts to notice the upstart young civilisation and inevitably starts a war led by a brilliant general called Ben Roise who at the start of the encounters wins ...

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Review of Foundation And Empire - Isaac Asimov