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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

Dragonsong - a Cinderella fairy story

Advantages: A lovely story, well told, with engaging characters
Disadvantages: A bit short perhapse - ends too soon!

...successful – a classic! Dragonsong – Anne McCaffrey Corgi; ISBN: 0552106615 The official website http://www.randomhouse.com/delrey/pern/ seems to be a) American and b) about a year out of date, but nevertheless has some good information. PS in a purely technical sense this is Science Fiction, as per the classification. In reality it has more in common with fantasy. ...

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Review of Dragonsong - Anne McCaffrey

Behind the scenes DW doesn't get much better than this

Advantages: Insightful, sharp witted, easy to read
Disadvantages: Quite heavy and bulky to hold while reading

...is DTChick and I'm a Doctor Who fan. I love it. The stories, the characters, the CGI, the entire concept, everything, and especially David Tennant's performance as the Doctor. I've recently finished reading Russell T Davies' book, The Writer's Tale. Russell has been the Exec Producer on DW since its return to our screens in 2005 and the book follows a year in the life of the writer through a series of emails to Benjamin Cook, journalist and regular ...
...just a passing interest in Doctor Who (like those purchases won't already have been made!) but also for anybody who has aspirations of becoming a writer as it gets down to the nuts and bolts of television production, handling the media, script drafting and just what makes good TV drama. Buy it and buy one for your friend too. You won't regret it ...

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Review of Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - Russell T. Davies & Benjamin Cook