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With the Doctor kidnapped in a frontier war, it's up to Amy and space-swashbuckler Dirk Slipstream to save the day
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'This is the Gyre - the most hostile environment in the galaxy...'
250,000 years' worth of junk floating in deep space, home to the shipwrecked Sittuun, the carnivorous Sollogs, and worst of all - the Humans. The Doctor and Amy arrive on this terrifying world in the middle of an all-out frontier war between Sittuun and Humans, and the countdown has already started. There's a comet in the sky, and it's on a collision course with the Gyre...
When the Doctor is kidnapped, it's up to Amy and "galaxy-famous swashbuckler" Dirk Slipstream to save the day. But who is Slipstream, exactly? And what is he really doing here?
A thrilling, all new adventure featuring the Doctor and Amy, as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television
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Format:Hardcover
A Doctor who novel, telling an all new story not seen on tv. It features the Eleventh Doctor and Amy. Like the previous novels in this range featuring the ninth and tenth doctor it's suitable for all ages and runs for 246 pages or so. To differentiate it from those previous novels the size of the pages is slightly larger and the cover design is all new, but the word count, page count and chapter count are still pretty much the same.
The story involves the TARDIS landing on the gyre. A world composed of bits of spacejunk that have drifted together and formed into a planet. It's the home of a humanoid alien race. Who don't get along with a group of humans who live there. The latter are descendants of a spaceship crew that crashed there long before, and have developed their own weird civilsation with some rather individualistic beliefs.
But the gyre is facing impending danger and it could be about to be destroyed. In one of two different ways. With clashing civilisations, a race against time, a separated TARDIS crew and a human adventurer who might have a hidden agenda, it's a race against time for the doctor to save the day.
Book can create worlds that you couldn't see on tv because the words can fire your imagination to create visuals that wouldn't be possible on the small screen. And that covers over well here, the whole setting being very imaginative. It also touches on some high concepts in regards to faith and belief. The race against time nature of the plot does make for a page turning read. Some books in this range have started rather slowly, but this one never lets up for an instant.
Considering that this was written before the eleventh doctor had been seen on screen, the characterisation of the Doctor and Amy is pretty good, and I never had any problems imagining it was the characters as depicted on tv. That may be down to the fact that as viewers we're more used to them now we're well into the season than if I'd read this earlier.
But all in all a good bit of science fiction and a good doctor who story. An above average entry in the range.
The story involves the TARDIS landing on the gyre. A world composed of bits of spacejunk that have drifted together and formed into a planet. It's the home of a humanoid alien race. Who don't get along with a group of humans who live there. The latter are descendants of a spaceship crew that crashed there long before, and have developed their own weird civilsation with some rather individualistic beliefs.
But the gyre is facing impending danger and it could be about to be destroyed. In one of two different ways. With clashing civilisations, a race against time, a separated TARDIS crew and a human adventurer who might have a hidden agenda, it's a race against time for the doctor to save the day.
Book can create worlds that you couldn't see on tv because the words can fire your imagination to create visuals that wouldn't be possible on the small screen. And that covers over well here, the whole setting being very imaginative. It also touches on some high concepts in regards to faith and belief. The race against time nature of the plot does make for a page turning read. Some books in this range have started rather slowly, but this one never lets up for an instant.
Considering that this was written before the eleventh doctor had been seen on screen, the characterisation of the Doctor and Amy is pretty good, and I never had any problems imagining it was the characters as depicted on tv. That may be down to the fact that as viewers we're more used to them now we're well into the season than if I'd read this earlier.
But all in all a good bit of science fiction and a good doctor who story. An above average entry in the range.
Format:Hardcover
not going in to the story as most have done this so ill anylize the plot,charecters ect
plot
its a diffrent prespective in that its humans invaiding aleins and i like that but it also featured a tired sub plot in that the humans have a re written past ( wont say more than that ) if they stuck to the invasion plot it would have been a very diffrent very epic book unfortunetly the sub plot kinda ruind it
setting
this was another on/off thing for me the junkyard was very well done ( then blown when the reason behind it was told ) and i found the aleins side to be generic but it adds to the story and its conclusion
villains
the humans and slipstream
the humans are intresting in that they live trough a vid screen i found it intresting and the humans are actully very nasty and you want them to die but you feel sorry for them too so it works on all leavels just wish the reason for the way they were wasent a cop-out
slipstream
please please put this guy in the 2011 xmas story or at least the season 6 2nd half this guy is excellent he,s cocky aragant ( not sure if this means the same as cocky) hes charming and very pesusive ( to amy that is ) oh hes a con man too seriously he is fantastic
the good guys
the doctor
hes very well wrritten i think the best you can imagine him is when he telling the humans about the reason why they are what they are this was very nicely wrriten ( when he tell them about the mentor) i love the 11th doctor hes more alein than 10th ( no disrespect to 10th ) and a lot darker the ending shows this
amy
not too sure about the scottish lass iam not too convinced that the wrriter captured her in her sassy bubblely persona as well as apolo 13 or nuclear time did but to be fair this was wrriten when the new era began so ill let it slide
the aleins
ok i cant recall what they are called but they are very anoying and dont want to hear from them again i dont think they are the best monsters ( or aleins or whatever) to be created and found them very boring
plus side
excellent well written and well ploted story with a well written doctor ( always helps) and nice twist on a age old primise
minus
everything elese very boring aleins cop out ending
overall grade B-
plot
its a diffrent prespective in that its humans invaiding aleins and i like that but it also featured a tired sub plot in that the humans have a re written past ( wont say more than that ) if they stuck to the invasion plot it would have been a very diffrent very epic book unfortunetly the sub plot kinda ruind it
setting
this was another on/off thing for me the junkyard was very well done ( then blown when the reason behind it was told ) and i found the aleins side to be generic but it adds to the story and its conclusion
villains
the humans and slipstream
the humans are intresting in that they live trough a vid screen i found it intresting and the humans are actully very nasty and you want them to die but you feel sorry for them too so it works on all leavels just wish the reason for the way they were wasent a cop-out
slipstream
please please put this guy in the 2011 xmas story or at least the season 6 2nd half this guy is excellent he,s cocky aragant ( not sure if this means the same as cocky) hes charming and very pesusive ( to amy that is ) oh hes a con man too seriously he is fantastic
the good guys
the doctor
hes very well wrritten i think the best you can imagine him is when he telling the humans about the reason why they are what they are this was very nicely wrriten ( when he tell them about the mentor) i love the 11th doctor hes more alein than 10th ( no disrespect to 10th ) and a lot darker the ending shows this
amy
not too sure about the scottish lass iam not too convinced that the wrriter captured her in her sassy bubblely persona as well as apolo 13 or nuclear time did but to be fair this was wrriten when the new era began so ill let it slide
the aleins
ok i cant recall what they are called but they are very anoying and dont want to hear from them again i dont think they are the best monsters ( or aleins or whatever) to be created and found them very boring
plus side
excellent well written and well ploted story with a well written doctor ( always helps) and nice twist on a age old primise
minus
everything elese very boring aleins cop out ending
overall grade B-
Format:Kindle Edition
ok, i have to admit, i didn't really read this book on a kindle, i bought the real thing, but it was a lot better than the other doctor who books. I was in astonishment when i was reading it. If you are into doctor who, like reading and adventure then this is the book for you
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A message of hate and fear, aimed at children
I generally like the Doctor Who books (the old ones far more, though, it has to be said). However this one, despite its very interesting premise (I like the idea of the humans... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Francis, A
Fast-paced with interesting ideas, but a few letdowns
Based on an interesting conceit that has been touched on occasionally in Doctor Who before- that for once the 'monsters' are the good guys and the humans are the 'baddies'- "Night... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Mr. Stuart Bruce
Night of the living...HUMANS!?
Love the book, love the story, love the cover. To start my very short review I would just like to say
that matt smith's doctor (in this book, and in the TV series itself)... Read more
that matt smith's doctor (in this book, and in the TV series itself)... Read more
Published 22 months ago by dylan
Never Mind the Sollogs
The Gyre: an inhospitable wasteland and home to the human descendents of the crew of a ship that crashed there centuries ago. Read more
Published on 5 May 2010 by Foggy Tewsday
Very Good
This is the first Eleventh Doctor Book I read since the new series started. The plot is very fast moving and leads to a god build up. Read more
Published on 3 May 2010 by P.A.G
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