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TARDIS Guide

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Released

Monday, September 4, 2000

Written by

Jonathan Morris

Pages

284

Time Travel

Future

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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.

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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.


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