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As Amy is hunted in the suburban streets of his future, the Doctor is forced to live backwards through time
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'My watch is running backwards.'
Colorado, 1981. The Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive in Appletown - an idyllic village in the remote American desert where the townsfolk go peacefully about their suburban routines. But when two more strangers arrive, things begin to change. The first is a mad scientist - whose warnings are cut short by an untimely and brutal death. The second is the Doctor...
As death falls from the sky, the Doctor is trapped. The TARDIS is damaged, and the Doctor finds he is living backwards through time. With Amy and Rory being hunted through the suburban streets of the Doctor's own future and getting farther away with every passing second, he must unravel the secrets of Appletown before time runs out...
A thrilling, all-new adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.
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Format:Hardcover
This is one amazing read. Intricately crafted, this is a story that toys with the concepts of time and cause and effect in a way that would make even Steven Moffat's head spin!
It starts off innocently enough: The Doctor, Amy, and Rory land in an idyllic little American village - in the middle of the desert. Naturally, not everything is as it seems, and soon, a nuclear bomb threatens to destroy them all... and that's where it gets complicated. Really complicated. Because as a result of his attempt to stop the bomb from exploding, the Doctor finds himself living backwards through time - literally experiencing the world in reverse.
It's hard to say much more without giving away too much of the plot, but I can say that the writer did a good job capturing the characters. The Doctor is very definitely the Eleventh Doctor, and Amy and Rory's relationship is characterized well - especially Rory's voice is spot on. The couple's role in the story isn't all that big, their function mainly that of the traditional Doctor Who companion - getting in trouble and needing to be rescued by the Doctor - but they handle themselves well, especially considering what they're up against.
It's the Doctor's backwards journey through time, however, that makes up the meat of the story. And a fascinating journey it is. Again, it's difficult to say more without giving away the plot, but the writer took a mind-boggling concept and managed to present it very clearly and believably. It really explores the kind of problems you would run into if you were living through time in the opposite direction from everyone else - like how to communicate with someone when their responses precede your words!
This really is a fascinating book. I keep finding myself picking it back up again and again to reread my favourite parts. If there was ever a story that really should have been a tv episode, it's this one.
It starts off innocently enough: The Doctor, Amy, and Rory land in an idyllic little American village - in the middle of the desert. Naturally, not everything is as it seems, and soon, a nuclear bomb threatens to destroy them all... and that's where it gets complicated. Really complicated. Because as a result of his attempt to stop the bomb from exploding, the Doctor finds himself living backwards through time - literally experiencing the world in reverse.
It's hard to say much more without giving away too much of the plot, but I can say that the writer did a good job capturing the characters. The Doctor is very definitely the Eleventh Doctor, and Amy and Rory's relationship is characterized well - especially Rory's voice is spot on. The couple's role in the story isn't all that big, their function mainly that of the traditional Doctor Who companion - getting in trouble and needing to be rescued by the Doctor - but they handle themselves well, especially considering what they're up against.
It's the Doctor's backwards journey through time, however, that makes up the meat of the story. And a fascinating journey it is. Again, it's difficult to say more without giving away the plot, but the writer took a mind-boggling concept and managed to present it very clearly and believably. It really explores the kind of problems you would run into if you were living through time in the opposite direction from everyone else - like how to communicate with someone when their responses precede your words!
This really is a fascinating book. I keep finding myself picking it back up again and again to reread my favourite parts. If there was ever a story that really should have been a tv episode, it's this one.
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"Nuclear Time" manages to bring a new idea into the time travel element of the Who universe, as the Doctor finds himself running backwards through time in ways he can't control. It's a very interesting new twist that leads to a very complicated but understandable story, that doesn't patronise the reader with over-explanation and which might have you skipping back through the pages to double-check things, which in my opinion isn't a bad thing, though younger readers might get a little confused.
The rest of the story- the US Government trying to destroy their own prototypes of androids disguised as humans as they are too successful and too deadly- is more straightforward and runs a little bit like a Third Doctor story, with plastic men coming to life and a struggle between a brilliant scientist Albert and closed-minded military man Geoff.
Amy and Rory don't make much of an appearance, which again works well as they're not needed, as we concentrate on the Doctor coming to terms with being hurled around time without his TARDIS.
The rest of the story- the US Government trying to destroy their own prototypes of androids disguised as humans as they are too successful and too deadly- is more straightforward and runs a little bit like a Third Doctor story, with plastic men coming to life and a struggle between a brilliant scientist Albert and closed-minded military man Geoff.
Amy and Rory don't make much of an appearance, which again works well as they're not needed, as we concentrate on the Doctor coming to terms with being hurled around time without his TARDIS.
Format:Hardcover
I do think some of the recent books are really taking further steps away from the format that the NSAs had tended towards in the past. "The King's Dragon" took Moffat's 'dark fairytale' approach by the scruff of the neck and ran with it, and "Nuclear Time" did what a lot of the past ranges have done and spent a great deal of time dealing with events and characters other than the Doctor and his companion.
I'm glad to see the experimentation in the range is expanding somewhat. It helps to see that the range is moving forward and not stagnating in any way - even if the NSAs aren't hugely experimental, they're striving to find new ways to tell their stories, which is definitely good.
Anyway, onto this book in particular. The characterization was pretty good - a couple of lines from Amy jarred slightly but she was otherwise perfect and the Doctor wasn't always quite as clever as I'd have preferred, but overall he comes across very well. Rory is pretty good - but mostly by not being focussed on too much.
The supporting characters were very well drawn indeed - which is good considering how much time is taken by them. The story is really about Albert more than anyone else and he's a very sympathetic and likeable character, while remaining very flawed.
Geoff is also well-portrayed - especially when we get inside his head. When seen through Albert's eyes he is much more one-note stern military commander - but that is certainly deliberate, to show how Albert sees the character.
Even Isley is ultimately strangely likeable - though she surely shouldn't be. The ending was very mixed, regarding the emotions we were supposed to feel. I won't go into detail, to avoid spoilers, but I very much appreciated the emotionally ambiguous nature of the climax.
The time-wimey plot was quite well handled and largely constructed in a way that could only work in print rather than on screen. I'm still not sure the impetus behind it made sense to me, but the mechanics of it made as much sense as Doctor Who time travel ever does.
Overall, I think I loved this book. It was trying something different to any other NSA I have read, while still retaining the feel of the TV series which is what makes this range so appealing to me.
I'm glad to see the experimentation in the range is expanding somewhat. It helps to see that the range is moving forward and not stagnating in any way - even if the NSAs aren't hugely experimental, they're striving to find new ways to tell their stories, which is definitely good.
Anyway, onto this book in particular. The characterization was pretty good - a couple of lines from Amy jarred slightly but she was otherwise perfect and the Doctor wasn't always quite as clever as I'd have preferred, but overall he comes across very well. Rory is pretty good - but mostly by not being focussed on too much.
The supporting characters were very well drawn indeed - which is good considering how much time is taken by them. The story is really about Albert more than anyone else and he's a very sympathetic and likeable character, while remaining very flawed.
Geoff is also well-portrayed - especially when we get inside his head. When seen through Albert's eyes he is much more one-note stern military commander - but that is certainly deliberate, to show how Albert sees the character.
Even Isley is ultimately strangely likeable - though she surely shouldn't be. The ending was very mixed, regarding the emotions we were supposed to feel. I won't go into detail, to avoid spoilers, but I very much appreciated the emotionally ambiguous nature of the climax.
The time-wimey plot was quite well handled and largely constructed in a way that could only work in print rather than on screen. I'm still not sure the impetus behind it made sense to me, but the mechanics of it made as much sense as Doctor Who time travel ever does.
Overall, I think I loved this book. It was trying something different to any other NSA I have read, while still retaining the feel of the TV series which is what makes this range so appealing to me.
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I read this novel twice. This was not because I enjoyed it so much that I had to go back for a second helping, though. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Foggy Tewsday
Great, amazing book!
`My watch is running backwards.'
Colorado, 1981. The Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive in Appletown - an idyllic village in the remote American desert where the townsfolk go... Read more
Colorado, 1981. The Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive in Appletown - an idyllic village in the remote American desert where the townsfolk go... Read more
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