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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

This is not Alice's World

Advantages: An entertaining Military science fiction story.
Disadvantages: Definately not for everybody

...local population. An investigation turned into a full scale alien invasion with the Army, Police and local citizens loosing badly to some weird aliens. So briefly starts the latest book from John Ringo. He burst like a bomb himself on the unprepared world in 2000, and has not looked back since. He writes a good enthralling military hi-Tec adventure type of story. The action in this one starts right at page one and has not let up since. The story ...
...seen and ideas similar have cropped up with other writers as to the style of the aliens. The idea of biological weapons is in itself not knew. We tend to think of germs but that may not be the only type of biology available. What about modified animals and peoples. This idea itself has been also used by other writers. (H Harrison 'Eden' books) The quantum theory of a multiverse is not new either but is now appearing in more works. If you really ...

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Review of Into the Looking Glass - John Ringo

Has time run out for the Doctor?

Advantages: Good plot, quick read
Disadvantages: Weak characterisation of the Doctor

...box set of ten new Doctor Who novels from ebay for a very cheap £5, and 'The Clockwise Man' is the first book in the set. It's the second Doctor Who novel that I've read, so I have something to compare it to. It's a good, quick read that should appeal to both adults and children alike. **Blurb** (from back of book) In 1920s London the Doctor and Rose find themselves caught up in the hunt for a mysterious murderer. But not everyone or everything ...
...faceless killers closing in, the Doctor and Rose must solve the mystery of the Clockwise Man before London itself is destroyed... **Plot** (minor spoilers) Being the very first of the New Adventure Doctor Who novels, this features the ninth Doctor (as played by Christopher Eccleston) and Rose Tyler. In my mind, this adventure takes place after "The Unquiet Dead" in series one, and this seems to fit as here, the Doctor and Rose seem to know each ...

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Review of Doctor Who: The Clockwise Man - Justin Richards

Is this a winner for the Doctor?

Advantages: Great plot, well written and fantastic characterisation
Disadvantages: The baddies are a little feeble

...the third book in the Doctor Who new series adventures, "Winner Takes All" by Jacqueline Rayner. I've heard, around the fandom, that most people aren't very impressed with this book, but I really enjoyed it. So much so that I read it in one sitting. **Blurb** (from the back of the book) Rose and the Doctor return to present-day Earth, and become intrigued by the latest craze - the video game, Death to Mantodeans. Is it as harmless as it seems? ...
...alien threat? And can the Doctor play the game to the end - and win? **Plot** (minor spoilers) Since the revival of Doctor Who, present-day Earth series seem to be the bane of the Doctor Who fandom. I, on the other hand, love them - especially whilst Rose was around; I found the banter between Jackie Tyler and the Doctor to be great, as well as the dynamic between the Timelord and Rose's ex Mickey Smith. So it's back to Earth for this story, when ...

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Review of Doctor Who: Winner Takes All - Jacqueline Rayner

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