Vanessa Bishop, Doctor Who Magazine, July 2000
Essential... A surprising success, achieving in one volume what the Interference arc failed to deliver in five... Destined to be a novel both loved and loathed.
Richard McGinlay, DreamWatch magazine, July 2000
The lasting impression left by this book is that of a genuinely stunning instalment in Who fiction... some astonishing and spectacular revelations.
Product Description
The Doctor's not the man he was. But what has he become? An old enemy -- Faction Paradox, a cult of time-travelling voodoo terrorists -- is finally making him one of its own. These rebels have a mission for him, one that will deliver him into the hands of his own people, who have decreed that he must die. Except now, it seems, the Time Lords have a mission for him too...
A gargantuan structure, hewn from solid bone, has appeared in the skies over Gallifrey. Its origins and purpose are unknown, but its powers threaten to tear apart the web of time and the universe with it. Only the doctor can get inside... but soon he will learn that nothing is safe and nothing is sacred.
Shot by both sides, confronted by past sins and future crimes, the Doctor finds himself a prisoner of his own actions.
From the Author
Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to comment on "The Ancestor Cell" here in the amazon.co.uk reviews.
SFX Magazine readers voted the novel one of their Top Ten TV Tie-Ins of 2000 (two other Who novels also appeared in the list--The Burning and Festival of Death).
Although amazon.co.uk suggests otherwise, the book was co-written by me and Stephen Cole.
