- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Virgin Books; Paperback First edition (15 Sep 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0426204220
- ISBN-13: 978-0426204220
- Product Dimensions: 18 x 11.7 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 655,168 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Sarah Jane Smith wants to meet her fellow journalist Rudyard Kipling, and the Doctor sets the co-ordinates for Victorian England. No sooner have they landed, than the time travellers find themselves pursued across Devon moorland by a huge feral hound.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
John Peel has always been one of the classiest 'Who' writers and his latest Missing Adventure certainly doesn't buck the trend. The Fourth Doctor and his companion Sarah-Jane Smith arrive in late nineteenth century Devon and come face to face with not one but two of England's finest writers. The teenage Rudyard Kipling is a cheeky schoolboy who does his best to charm a resistant Sarah whilst Arthur Conan-Doyle is a young and idealistic ship's doctor. The time travellers soon discover that someone is experimenting on living human tissue and creating fantastical creatures - werewolves and mermaids amongst them. Just who is the enigmatic 'Ross'? And who his unctious manservant 'Abercrombie'? What is the mysterious beast that is marauding across Dartmoor, killing livestock and generating fear..? And why are street urchins disappearing steadily from the streets? Peel's novel is part Holmesian pastiche and part Island of Doctor Moreau; however it also forges its own identity as a classic Philip Hinchcliffe-era Gothic Doctor Who story. Following on chronologically from 'The Brain of Morbius' the adventure sees Sarah-Jane at her journalistic best - bolshy and winsome in turns until she gets what she wants. The Doctor is the implicitly alien man of action and the plot plays on the evergreen theme of man interfering with nature and the inevitable consequences this brings.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Evolution looks from the outset to have too many things going on - a central story riffing on Doctor Moreau-style fusings of men and animals, with guest appearances from both Rudyard Kiling and Arthur Conan Doyle, but with a light and pacy storyline this is a pleasant if unadventurous read. The characters - both regulars and new - are well drawn, and there are enough twists and turns to keep things interesting, the only real fly in the ointment is Peel's heavy-handed treatment of the Doctor being the influence for Sherlock Holmes. Easily John Peels best Doctor Who novel.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Brilliant. A nice period piece with an SF slant, and both the 4th Doctor and Sarah at their finest. An intelligent, witty story in the tradition of Tom Baker's gothic period. Buy it.
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