Stories Short Story Time Lord Fairy Tales The Scruffy Piper 1 image Overview Characters How to Read Reviews 2 Statistics Quotes Overview Released October 2015 Written by Justin Richards Pages 36 Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) Space Station Synopsis Space Station Hamlyn is under siege. Thousands of small metal creatures are flying through space, sent by silver warriors to burrow inside the station. The crew's only hope is a slightly scruffy-looking stranger, with a recorder and a mysterious blue box . . . Read Read Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Characters Second Doctor Cybermats Cybermen Show All Characters (3) How to read The Scruffy Piper: Books Time Lord Fairy Tales [Slipcase] Books The Scruffy Piper Books Time Lord Fairytales Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Newest First Oldest First Most Likes Highest Rating Lowest Rating Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 2 reviews 16 November 2024 · 10 words Review by Rock_Angel 1 Such a fun read it’s just such fun honestly Like Liked 1 12 November 2024 · 245 words Review by JayPea Spoilers This review contains spoilers! I rated Little Rose Riding Hood as a fairy tale not a story, so I'm unfortunately going to have to do the same here. As a story, I loved this, Two dropping in on a space station that protects the galaxy from Cybermen, it's crew distrustful of him, and him ending up Pied Pipering the invading Cybermats off the ship, what's not to love?! As a fairy tale though... Firstly, again, I find it hard to believe Time Lords would tell Fairy Tales like this about The Doctor. The Doctor as a ghost story sure, but why tell stories of The Doctor as a hero? This also has too much dialogue for a fairy tale in my option, and even ignoring that dialogue it's written more like a kid's short story with a twinge of fairy tale, than an actual fairy tale. Most frustrating to me though is the art. Now, the art in the series is absolutely beautiful, and here's no exception, but there's a big problem with it for me. At one point in the story, there's mention of one of the Cybermats having it's antenna shot off, but the Cybermats depicted in the art are the Closing Time Cybermats, which don't have antenna. It might be nitpicking but I don't know, especially in a kid's book, it feels like the art really matters. Again, rating this as a story, much higher, but rating this as a fairy tale, it's not the best. Like Liked 0 Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating112 members 3.73 / 5 GoodReads AVG. Rating112 votes 3.73 / 5 Member Statistics Read 31 Favourited 1 Reviewed 2 Saved 0 Skipped 0 Owned 1 Quotes Add Quote Submit a Quote