Stories Book Telos Novellas Time and Relative 1 image Overview Characters How to Read Reviews 3 Statistics Quotes Overview Released Friday, November 23, 2001 Written by Kim Newman Publisher Telos Publishing Pages 121 Time Travel Present Inventory (Potential Spoilers!) Everlasting Matches Synopsis The harsh British winter of 1963 brings a big freeze that extends into April with no sign of letting up. And with it comes a new, far greater menace: terrifying icy creatures are stalking the streets, bringing death and destruction. The First Doctor and Susan, trapped on Earth until the faulty TARDIS can be repaired, are caught up in the crisis. The Doctor seems to know what is going on, but is uncharacteristically detached and furtive, almost as if he is losing his memory... Susan, isolated from her grandfather and finding it hard to fit in with the human teenagers at Coal Hill School, tries to cope by recording her thoughts in a diary. But she too feels her memory slipping away and her past unravelling. Is she even sure who she is any more...? 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 First Doctor Susan Ian Chesterton Barbara Wright The Cold Show All Characters (5) How to read Time and Relative: Books Time and Relative 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 3 reviews 1 January 2025 · 12 words Review by merrygejelh I love this take on the first Doctor and Susan so much. merrygejelh View profile Like Liked 0 23 December 2024 · 263 words Review by hallieday Spoilers This review contains spoilers! The First Doctor #25 'Time and Relative' (2001) from Telos Novellas. A very unique entry into the First Doctor's catalogue. Very nice to spend a lot of time with Susan and her school friends, establishing her life apart from The Doctor as she acclimatise herself to human life. The diary format is fun at first and it's good to hear Susan's inner monologue, but as the story goes along, and all of the main action happens on one day, it loses its purpose a bit unfortunately. The Cold Knights are a nice villain, and the goriness of the story here is much more appreciated than it was in Frayed, although I still find it to be quite out of touch with how seeing those things would affect a person like Susan. The primary issue I have with this story is just how wildly different The Doctor's characterisation is: he seems to be suffering from some kind of memory wipe that the Time Lords put on him before he left Gallifrey, and it manipulates his personality and belief system. This unaligns itself with all of the stories preceeding this but obviously that's going to happen a lot with EU. But this personality warping of The Doctor here is quite nauseating and feels a bit out of nowhere - it would be cool to see in a different story perhaps, but I imagine this story was written with the intension for it to be the very first story following their leaving Gallifrey. Overall intriguing, and a worthwhile read. hallieday View profile Like Liked 0 25 November 2024 · 5 words Review by Rock_Angel 1 Such a dark dramatic novella Rock_Angel View profile Like Liked 1 Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating250 members 3.78 / 5 GoodReads AVG. Rating250 votes 3.78 / 5 Member Statistics Read 14 Favourited 3 Reviewed 3 Saved 0 Skipped 0 Owned 0 Quotes Add Quote Submit a Quote
