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TARDIS Guide

Overview

Released

Monday, August 3, 1998

Written by

Christopher Bulis

Pages

281

Time Travel

Future

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Ghosts

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Space

Synopsis

A mysterious disturbance in the hyperspatial vortex causes the Doctor and Sam to materialise the TARDIS in deep space. Here they find that a huge derelict alien craft has become the subject of a dangerous confrontation between starships from the rival systems of Nimos and Emindar. At the centre of the dispute is a ruthless politician with secrets of his own — a man who is willing to risk innocent lives to claim the derelict for himself.

While the Doctor and Sam find themselves accompanying an expedition into the heart of the alien vessel, strange and frightening incidents spread terror through the watching ships. But exploring deeper into the derelict disturbs a sinister presence and takes the expedition towards an inevitable confrontation with fate — and perhaps beyond the boundaries of life itself...

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This book is, unfortunately, an 800 page ultra-hard SF novel forced painfully into the skin of a 300 page DW book from 1998. There are a lot of interesting ideas going on in here, and some strands of the plot I even found intriguing - especially Lester and Rhonda's terrible marriage. But even the lure of ghostly and possessed murder wasn't enough to save this one for me.

It was fine. As I say, it wanted to be a novel it was never going to be. There are way too many characters and it feels like the Doctor and Sam are barely there at all. And when they are, she's off getting kidnapped and he's standing about being enigmatic. Meanwhile, all the side characters are fighting this war I didn't care about on ships with ghosts that all get explained away with a portal in space and time.

Certainly not the worst EDA I've read so far, but definitely a solid average. A book I would have enjoyed way more had it been a *book*, not a DW book


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