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Doctor Who: Synthespians (Paperback)

by Craig Hinton (Author)
3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: BBC Books; illustrated edition edition (19 Jul 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0563486171
  • ISBN-13: 978-0563486176
  • Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.9 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 167,900 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'We are the Nestenes. We have been colonising other planets for a thousand million years.' In the 111th century, nostalgia is everything. TV from the 20th century is the new obsession, and Reef Station One is receiving broadcasts from a distant Earth of the past. Dixon of Dock Green and Z-Cars are ratings winners - and the inhabitants of the New Earth Republic can't get enough. But there are other forces that need Reef Station One. An ancient but dying race sees this human outpost as a last hope for survival...and millionaire Walter J Matheson III sees it as a marvellous business opportunity. When the Doctor and Peri arrive they find a fractured society dependent on film and TV. They also discover that the Republic's greatest entrepreneur is in league with one of the Doctor's oldest enemies. The Doctor and Peri must unravel the link between Matheson's business empire and the Nestenes. Because if they don't, they could end up in the deadliest soap opera of all time...

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A great read!, 16 May 2005
By A. CHARLWOOD (LONDON, UK) - See all my reviews
A great story, interesting and fast moving, and it actually makes perfect sense which is a nice change. The plot is refreshingly straightforward, sometimes creepy, frequently very funny. One of the more enjoyable and worthy adventures in the series
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3.0 out of 5 stars Old foes return, 25 Jul 2004
The autons are back. What can I say but one of my favourite and underused old foes of the series have made a welcome return. I wonder if this book was written with an eye on this meance returning in the new series. Anyway, back to matters in hand. The book as a whole doesn't quite gell for me I'm afraid. I like it better when the Doctor is played darker, a bit sinister, as if he could stray from the path of good at anytime, a bit like the mysterious Boag-Munroe character from "a haunted man", by stuart neild. Now that character would make an ideal prototype for a future doctor. Maybe the ninth doctor perhaps?
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2.0 out of 5 stars "Peri,nostalgia is best left where it belongs. In the past.”, 25 Aug 2004
By dogbarkssome (England) - See all my reviews
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Synthespians is a readable but ultimately very unambitious novel. The Autons return, but despite the promising field of plastic surgery nothing particular new or interesting is done with them, instead we have a very traditional ‘romp’ as the 6th Doctor and Peri fight off alien invasions (yawn), a megalomaniac James Bond-style arch villain (yawn), in a very basic Target-level adventure. The background setting of trophy wives and backstabbing Dynasty/Dallas soap opera characters is interesting, but shifting the action into a retro-obsessed planetoid 8,000 years into the future is questionable. A light basic read, with a few good Doctor Who in-jokes, but unless you have a burning necessity to read another story with Autons walking round shooting people this is unessential stuff.
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