Stories Book The Eighth Doctor Adventures (Books) The Taking of Planet 5 1 image Overview Characters How to Read Reviews 2 Statistics Quotes 5 Overview Released Monday, October 4, 1999 Written by Mark Clapham, Simon Bucher-Jones Pages 288 Time Travel Past, Future Location (Potential Spoilers!) Planet 5, Antarctica, Earth Synopsis Twelve million years ago, a war touched the Earth briefly. Now, in Antarctica, an archaeological team has discovered the detritus of the conflict. And it's alive. Twelve million years ago, a creature evolved that was capable of consuming all life in the universe. Now someone, or something, is desperate enough to want to revive it. Outside the ordered universe, things move. They're hungry. And something has given them the scent of our space/time. In the far future, the Doctor has learnt of the war and feels he must intervene -- but it's more than just a local conflict of interest. One of the groups of combatants is from his own future, and the other has never, ever, existed. 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 Eighth Doctor Fitz Kreiner The Celestis Compassion Show All Characters (4) How to read The Taking of Planet 5: Books The Taking of Planet 5 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 2 reviews 7 October 2024 · 23 words Review by greenLetterT Liked the ideas in this one more than the execution. Shout out to what I can only describe as an EightTARDIS sex scene greenLetterT View profile Like Liked 0 5 June 2024 · 289 words Review by ankarstian 1 Note: I also posted this one onto GoodReads ‘Odd that you mention new words.' The Doctor's face was red now, capillaries swelling under the biomass probes of the stone. 'Gallifreyan's always been a static language, hasn't it? We go out into the universe and talk to everyone, but we don't take loan words back into our own tongue. TARDISes translate everything for us, or time rings, or things like your locket there. We don't have to integrate our experiences into words: they do it for us.' A vein in his neck began to pulsate, and next to it a warm glow spread through the blackness of the stone as if it were pleased. A quick word of warning about this one. There's not anything too bad in it, but it is a very complex book. It ends with a "cosmobiological" paper. Perhaps you should read Alien Bodies and Interference first, although I didn't read those and understood most of what happened. This is probably the best portrayal of the War in Heaven within Who. We feel the frenzy of the War-Time Lords, the pure frantic desperation which leads them to literally make deals with the Devil (for what is the Fendahl if not Doctor Who's version of Satan). You can also feel the raw fear and paranoia of the massive and unknown that the main villain of the piece. I'd say that this is a good introduction to the arcs of the EDAs that come before it, but I was at least aware of most of them. At the very least, it explains Compassion and The Blue Angel pretty well. If you enjoyed any of SB-J's other novels and/or enjoyed Hope, you'll probably enjoy this one. ankarstian View profile Like Liked 1 Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating27 members 3.89 / 5 GoodReads AVG. Rating219 votes 3.48 / 5 Member Statistics Read 47 Favourited 7 Reviewed 2 Saved 9 Skipped 1 Quotes Add Quote Link to Quote Favourite COMPASSION: Maybe you're a Great Old One on your mother's side. Either that or a lucky guess. DOCTOR: No, I think it's what I was warning you against. The power of the scenario: It's trying to turn me into an expert narrative voice. COMPASSION: Obviously, Doctor. I was employing irony. — The Taking of Planet 5 Show All Quotes (5) Open in new window
