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25th Apr 2012, 1:22 PM #51
Finished this yesterday, very enjoyable. Probably the best doctor who book (fiction) I've read for a good few years.
What notable about it is where Gareth has tweaked certain plot points from the versions we are probably more familiar with via the bbc tape and bf audio. Rather then feeling like sacrilege though these make the story feel more 'authentic' by clearing up some rather sloppy plot points that where in the original.
For example: I much prefer this version of the part 5 cliffhanger, the original version just made Salyavin out to be a bit of an idiot.
If there is one criticism its the final few chapters are a bit heavy on the info dumping. As Gareth was not afraid to change bits of the plot where necessary, I feel some of this could of been woven through the rest of the text rather then saved up to the end.
All in all though a fine reconstruction of the ultimate missing story; I would say this is the definite Shada, but as a new version seems to come out every few years that would probally be a bit hasty. 8/10
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25th Apr 2012, 3:20 PM #52Rather then feeling like sacrilege though these make the story feel more 'authentic' by clearing up some rather sloppy plot points that where in the original.Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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14th Jul 2012, 7:12 PM #53
About 1/3 of the way through (just into episode 3, as it were) and am really enjoying this - the TARDIS scene where Romana tells the Doctor about the Prof dying is very touching (totally Roberts' idea, or was it in the script?) and there are some nice details where he's able to suggest that Romana/the Doctor are from another time, such as Romana's reference (for example) to K9 needing charging because he's down to one bar which obviously makes no sense to Chris in 1979! It (so far anyway) really hangs together well AS A BOOK, and could easily be the definitive version!
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22nd Aug 2013, 7:18 PM #54
Just heard Gareth Roberts is to follow this up with a novelisation of City of Death. I think it's marvellous!
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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22nd Aug 2013, 7:52 PM #55
About time too! Hurrah!
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22nd Aug 2013, 8:39 PM #56
Well I think it's marvelous!
Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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22nd Aug 2013, 9:39 PM #57
I'm going to buy seven copies, but brick six of them up in my cellar.
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22nd Aug 2013, 9:41 PM #58
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22nd Aug 2013, 9:41 PM #59
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22nd Aug 2013, 9:58 PM #60
Surely somebody somewhere should write a 'fanfic' in which Gareth Roberts is being forced to write seven original copies of the novelisation of City of Death.
Earlier in the same story would of course come the exchange "Hermann, sell one of the Wheel in Spaces - discretely"; "Discretely? Sell an original Terrance Dicks discretely?!"
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22nd Aug 2013, 10:01 PM #61
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22nd Aug 2013, 10:12 PM #62
It would be an amazing ebay account!
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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23rd Aug 2013, 8:01 AM #63
"What I don't understand is why a man who's got six copies of City of Death wants to go to all the trouble of stealing a seventh."
"Come on, Doctor, I've just told you. There are seven people who would buy that book in secret, but nobody's going to buy it while it's sitting in Bracknell Library! "
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23rd Aug 2013, 11:55 AM #64
@Andrew
I've just had to explain why that's funny to Angela, ending with the words "if you don't find that funny then you're not a Doctor Who fan".
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23rd Aug 2013, 12:57 PM #65
Poor Angela!
Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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23rd Aug 2013, 2:28 PM #66
It's her fault for not watching City of Death.
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23rd Aug 2013, 3:12 PM #67
Well she should- it has a bouquet, you know, like a good wine.
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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23rd Aug 2013, 3:14 PM #68
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Whereas Wheel In Space is more of a table wine. (The Space Pirates is more like wine vinegar...)
Fingers crossed someone comes to an agreement over the remaining Dalek stories...
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