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Doctor Who: The Space Age (Mass Market Paperback)

by Steve Lyons (Author)
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: BBC Books (1 May 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0563538007
  • ISBN-13: 978-0563538004
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11.2 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 546,688 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Steve Lyons is an author who usually delivers a chuckle or two, but there is little to smile about in his new Doctor Who novel The Space Age.

The Doctor, Compassion and Fitz arrive on Earth in the future and, as Compassion is being strangely uncommunicative and unreactive, the Doctor and Fitz head off to explore a fantastic space-city they can see in the distance. There they become involved in the ongoing battles of two rival groups: mods and rockers, snatched from a 1950s Brighton and relocated to this futuristic city for reasons unknown.

This then is the sum of the novel: two opposing gangs, grim and meaningless rivalry, relationships and family conflict, all played out against the backdrop of a space-age city in Earth's future. Compassion hardly appears and does nothing to advance the plot, Fitz tries hard but becomes lost in the plot, and the Doctor is left to try and figure out what the plot really is.

It's an undemanding read and introduces another powerful time-aware alien race, but ultimately it's perhaps a little simplistic. It ends with some thought-provoking decisions for the protagonists, but it's all too late. The book marks time rather than revelling in it. --David J Howe



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The Doctor, Fitz and Compassion land on a bleak plain, near a derelict city where mods and rockers are converging to fight out their differences. While the Doctor is taken prisoner by the rockers, Fitz is whisked away by the mods. It is Earth, England, and the year is 2019.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars West Side Story in Space?, 4 May 2009
By Barney McGrew "Charlie" (UK) - See all my reviews
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Steve Lyons' latest original BBC Doctor Who novel features The Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Compassion. One of the simpler and more accessible of the range, the story revolves around the displacement of two groups - mods and rockers - from 1960s England to a future city.

On the whole though, this is a distinctly pedestrian original Doctor Who novel. It starts off well with a decent premise but sags in the middle and becomes tedious by the end. The TARDIS crew doesn't really have all that much to do and the novel just didn't grip me in the same way as say `The Hollow Men', or `Mad Dogs and Englishmen'. I'm working my way through the series, but unless you are too then I recommend giving this a miss.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Not what you're expecting, but an excellent read., 28 April 2000
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My first piece of advice about The Space Age is to pay absolutely no attention to the back cover blurb, it doesn't hold any relevant meaning as to the plot of the book. Once you've got over the shock (and possible disappointment) of that, Space Age turns out to be an excellent read, and a vast improvement on the last few novels.

Setting an escalating war between Mods and Rockers in a pseudo-futuristic city certainly takes some diverse thinking, and Lyons pulls it off well. One of the few criticisms of this book is that the regulars don't actually DO much, with the exception of Fitz. I found myself thinking how perfect this kind of scenario would have perfectly fitted the original vision of the Fourth Doctor and Harry Sullivan. The Doctor has relatively little to do, and Compassion is redundant for at least two-thirds, but it has to be said that when these two characters are used, they are used a great deal better than many preceding authors have used them. Infact I think this is the best Compassion has been since The Taking of Planet 5, used sparingly.

As with all of Steve's previous books, his characterisation is spot-on. Even some of those characters which you see very little of are beatifully crafted and moulded. If there is a real criticism to be levelled at this book, the plot does seem a little plodding in places, but the conclusion is a real humdinger.

If this is the shape of things to come, well then I'm all for it. Roll on the next!

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3.0 out of 5 stars marking time, 3 Aug 2006
By Paul Tapner (poole dorset england) - See all my reviews
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A nice idea for a doctor who story - mods and rockers taken out of time and put into a strange future city - but there's not much more to it than that. The book quickly becomes a traditional who runaround story. The characters are not that appealing. The writer is good at crafting this kind of material, but this is one of his lesser efforts. It's not a bad book, it just won't stay long in the memory once you've finished it.
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