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Doctor Who-Set Piece (New Doctor Who Adventures) (Paperback)

by Kate Orman (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Dr Who; Television tie-in edition edition (16 Feb 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0426204360
  • ISBN-13: 978-0426204367
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11.4 x 1.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 540,945 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Ships are disappearing into a "Bermuda Triangle" in space. The Doctor hatches a plan: to let himself and Ace to be captured, and rely on Benny to rescue them, but the companions get separated and scattered across time. In ancient Egypt, Ace has difficulty surviving when giant ants hunt her down.

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2.0 out of 5 stars A piece of varying interest, 21 Nov 2005
By Binro The Heretic "mattieboyz" (Hillsborough, Sheffield) - See all my reviews
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'Set Piece' is Kate Orman's second book in the New Adventures series and is narrowly her best. Not because 'The Left-Handed Hummingbird' is a literary triumph but becasue this effort is more readable in that it is breezier and less convoluted; which speaks volumes about L-HH but anyway...Ace is really at the centre of this story, she is separated from her two companions and the three of them find themselves flung through a time-rift into different periods in Earth's history. The Doctor begins the story as the prisoner of an army of mansize metal ants; ostensibly travelling through space and 'stealing' ships in order to use the crew and passengers as guinea-pigs in their warped experiments. Meanwhile Ace has been carried back to Egypt and becomes embroiled in a plot to depose the Pharaoh whilst Benny finds herself in Vichy France.
As with Orman's previous entry in the series, the plot relies too heavily on a strong knowledge of the 'whoniverse'; The Doctor finds himself working with a relative of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart but we are never really told how or why they came together; Sutekh is also mentioned and readers unfamiliar with 'The Pyramids of Mars' will be baffled. This makes it hard to concentrate on the story - something to do with the aforementioned ants and the Egyptian god Set - and hard to really care what happens.
'Set Piece' fairly accurately reflects all that is good and bad about the New Adventures series, with a big, bold plot that has too many ideas jostling for place - the various timezones - the universe devouring monsters - for any one of them to really develop effectively. Points are added for the cover; although yet another titillating image of Ace is hardly an accurate reflection of the sword-wielding, cold-blooded killer she has become.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A decent read but not a classic, 20 Dec 2008
By Mr. Stuart Bruce "DonQuibeats" (Bristol, UK) - See all my reviews
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I've read around half of the New Adventures and BBC Doctor Who books that bridged the long gap between the old and new TV series. From what I've read I'd definitely name Kate Orman as my favourite Doctor Who novel writer- with Paul Cornell a close second. However, this is probably not the strongest she wrote.

The Doctor, Ace and Benny spend most of the novel in separate times, fighting different struggles. The focus is definitely on Ace- Benny barely gets a look in and the Doctor seems to spend two-thirds of the novel trapped or asleep (something which Orman did again, and better, in "Seeing I"). The plot rattles along at a fair pace, and there's the obligatory sex and violence- they were obviously still excited that they could break away from what they could show on TV. The premise and the set-up are excellent but the resolution is a little bit on the anti-climactic side. A decent enough read, but there are others far better.
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