Stories Book Past Doctor Adventures Festival of Death 1 image Overview Characters How to Read Reviews 1 Statistics Quotes Overview Released Monday, September 4, 2000 Written by Jonathan Morris Pages 284 Time Travel Future Location (Potential Spoilers!) Festival of Death Synopsis The Beautiful Death. The ultimate theme-park ride. For twenty galactic credits, you can find out what it's like to be dead. But something has gone wrong. Visitors expecting a sightseeing tour of the afterlife have been transformed into mindless zombies, set on a killing rampage. The TARDIS arrives in the aftermath of the disaster and, to the Doctor's baffled delight, he is immediately congratulated for saving the population from certain and terrible destruction. The only problem is, he hasn't actually done it yet. Aided and abetted by a drug-addled hippie lizard, a hard-hitting investigative reporter and a suicidal ship's computer, the Doctor has no choice but to travel back in time and discover exactly how he became a hero. And then he finds out. He did it by sacrificing his life. Read Read Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Fourth Doctor Koel Paddox The Repulsion K9 Mark II Romana II Show All Characters (5) How to read Festival of Death: Books Festival of Death Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 1 review 20 March 2025 · 131 words Review by ankarstian Tarie walked over to the window. All she could see were the hundreds of spaceships and the marvellous, swirling majesty of hyperspace. Though I don't like Jonathan Morris' overreliance on that line from The Aztecs about not changing one line from history, I think the first story that he used this trope (as far as I can tell) is one of his best. In fact, I think its one of the best Fourth Doctor novels in general. It's able to match the tone of the latter half of Four's era while also having a very good plot and putting in some menace and even making me feel for quite a few of the characters. I might put Managra or Krikkitmen over this one but it is very very good. Highly recommended. ankarstian View profile Like Liked 0 Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating23 members 4.57 / 5 GoodReads AVG. Rating907 votes 4.08 / 5 The Time Scales AVG. Rating28 votes 4.55 / 5 Member Statistics Read 41 Favourited 9 Reviewed 1 Saved 12 Skipped 2 Quotes Add Quote Submit a Quote