"Only Human" features the Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler and Jack Harkness.
The Ninth Doctor travels with Rose and Jack to modern-day London to investigate a time disturbance. There they find a Neanderthal Man and try to bring him back into his time. When this doesn't work, the Doctor and Rose travel back in time, while Jack tries his best to integrate Das, the Neanderthal Man, into the community of London. The Doctor and Rose discover strange humans from the future who are now living in the past. They are there for an experiment and watch the first steps of humanity but these people don't seem very human anymore. The people from Osterberg don't have real feelings anymore because they suppress their feelings with drugs. Soon, the Doctor finds out that people go missing and that there is a strange monster down in the caves of Osterberg. Is he able to save the people around him?
I don't know why but I was a bit disappointed by this book. Maybe this is because I don't really feel a connection to the Ninth Doctor at the moment. The story was interesting and I liked the idea of the different humans all meeting each other in the past but there was somehow some excitement missing. It's nice to have Jack in this book as well and he was so typically himself and it was fun to read how he "trained" Das to fit into modern-day London. The book has many funny moments especially when the different humans come together and the monsters were kind of human too this time. When I think of them though, they are a bit scary and I'm glad that the Doctor managed to kill most of them.
"Only Human" is a good read, I just think a bit more excitement would have been nice.
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17 June 2013
14 April 2012
Human Nature by Paul Cornell
"Human Nature" by Paul Cornell features the Seventh Doctor and his companion Bernice Summerfield.
It is early summer in the little town Farringham where John Smith works as a teacher. He's a house master at Hulton College but he's struggling with this post because the boys on this school are made into soldiers. Smith doesn't really know what he should think about war and he has these strange dreams about people from a place called Gallifrey. He falls in love with Joan Redfern, the science teacher, but soon strange things begin to happen. In reality John Smith is the Doctor who wanted to be human for a while. Bernice Summerfield tries to change him back when aliens attack but she can't find the pod where the Doctor's memories are stored and then he doesn't want to change back. Can they defeat the aliens?
When you know the episodes "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood" with David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, you know what will happen in this book because they have used it for these episodes. To be honest I like the TV episodes more than this book. That doesn't mean that it's a bad book because the story is nearly the same just with another Doctor and companion but sometimes it's a bit confusing, especially the bits at the beginning when we read parts of Benny's diary. Maybe it was just because of the formatting because I read the ebook version of the book but it was hard to get into the book. Sometimes it was a bit longish in between but all in all it's a good Doctor Who book.
You can download the book here:
Human Nature
It is early summer in the little town Farringham where John Smith works as a teacher. He's a house master at Hulton College but he's struggling with this post because the boys on this school are made into soldiers. Smith doesn't really know what he should think about war and he has these strange dreams about people from a place called Gallifrey. He falls in love with Joan Redfern, the science teacher, but soon strange things begin to happen. In reality John Smith is the Doctor who wanted to be human for a while. Bernice Summerfield tries to change him back when aliens attack but she can't find the pod where the Doctor's memories are stored and then he doesn't want to change back. Can they defeat the aliens?
When you know the episodes "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood" with David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, you know what will happen in this book because they have used it for these episodes. To be honest I like the TV episodes more than this book. That doesn't mean that it's a bad book because the story is nearly the same just with another Doctor and companion but sometimes it's a bit confusing, especially the bits at the beginning when we read parts of Benny's diary. Maybe it was just because of the formatting because I read the ebook version of the book but it was hard to get into the book. Sometimes it was a bit longish in between but all in all it's a good Doctor Who book.
You can download the book here:
Human Nature
09 October 2011
The Scales of Injustice by Gary Russell
"The Scales of Injustice" by Gary Russell is my third Doctor Who novel, which features the Third Doctor, Liz Shaw and UNIT.
The Brigadier gets news about strange deaths in a small village, a small boy missing and a police woman who draws pictures like the ancestors of the humans. The Silurans seem to be back and the Doctor is captured by them, when he investigates alone. There is a sub-department of C19, which collects all things alien in the Vault but nobody really knows about them or knows what they are planning. They want to capture a Silurian for there experiments. Liz Shaw helps them unknowingly and is captured like the Doctor. Can the Doctor and Liz help the Silurians to survive and avoid a war?
The book wasn't bad but I didn't think it was really exciting. It reminded me a lot of the episode "The Hungry Earth" with the Eleventh Doctor. This book added something to my Doctor Who knowledge about the "older" Doctors but I guess you always have to see yourself how the books fit into the events of the TV show. I liked the fact that the Brigadier was in the book and that the Doctor can't travel anywhere because his Tardis is damaged. That's a bit of a change because I only know him with a working Tardis.
If you want to read the book you can download it here for free in different formats.
The Scales of Injustice
The Brigadier gets news about strange deaths in a small village, a small boy missing and a police woman who draws pictures like the ancestors of the humans. The Silurans seem to be back and the Doctor is captured by them, when he investigates alone. There is a sub-department of C19, which collects all things alien in the Vault but nobody really knows about them or knows what they are planning. They want to capture a Silurian for there experiments. Liz Shaw helps them unknowingly and is captured like the Doctor. Can the Doctor and Liz help the Silurians to survive and avoid a war?
The book wasn't bad but I didn't think it was really exciting. It reminded me a lot of the episode "The Hungry Earth" with the Eleventh Doctor. This book added something to my Doctor Who knowledge about the "older" Doctors but I guess you always have to see yourself how the books fit into the events of the TV show. I liked the fact that the Brigadier was in the book and that the Doctor can't travel anywhere because his Tardis is damaged. That's a bit of a change because I only know him with a working Tardis.
If you want to read the book you can download it here for free in different formats.
The Scales of Injustice
19 June 2011
Nightshade by Mark Gatiss
"Nightshade" written by Mark Gatiss is the second Doctor Who novel I have read until now.
It features the Seventh Doctor and his companion Ace. Strange things happen in the village Crook Marsham in 1968. People go missing without a sign and an actor in a retirement home starts to see horrible creatures from his old TV show. The Doctor and Ace land amidst all of this but the Doctor is haunted by old memories and thinks about retiring. When dead loved ones start to haunt the people of the village and kill them, the Doctor has to do what he does best: Help other people. Ace falls in love with boy from the village and thinks about staying with him. But will the Doctor let her go?
I think this book is better than the other one (Sands of Time) I read before. It stays mostly in one time and I think it's an interesting idea that people are lured to the alien by images of their loved ones. Before and after you know what is causing all this the book was quite creepy. It's a good read and something to get over the break in series 6.
You can download this book for free if you want. I'll post the link below.
Nightshade
It features the Seventh Doctor and his companion Ace. Strange things happen in the village Crook Marsham in 1968. People go missing without a sign and an actor in a retirement home starts to see horrible creatures from his old TV show. The Doctor and Ace land amidst all of this but the Doctor is haunted by old memories and thinks about retiring. When dead loved ones start to haunt the people of the village and kill them, the Doctor has to do what he does best: Help other people. Ace falls in love with boy from the village and thinks about staying with him. But will the Doctor let her go?
I think this book is better than the other one (Sands of Time) I read before. It stays mostly in one time and I think it's an interesting idea that people are lured to the alien by images of their loved ones. Before and after you know what is causing all this the book was quite creepy. It's a good read and something to get over the break in series 6.
You can download this book for free if you want. I'll post the link below.
Nightshade
20 May 2011
The Sands of Time
I stumbled over a Doctor Who novel in Ebook format a couple of weeks ago. It's called "The Sands of Time" and was written by Justin Richards.
The story is about the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa. During a visit of the British Museum Nyssa is kidnapped by a strange man and Tegan and the Doctor have to find her. They find out that the kidnapping has something to do with an old Egyptian prophecy and that Nyssa's body is used to bring an Egyption god back to life. While the Doctor and Tegan unravel the plan they also have to avoid seeing themselves during their rescue of Nyssa.
I liked the book but it was a bit confusing in some places because it has a lot of leaps in time and it is sometimes difficult to tell in which time you are right now. But the plot was good and I enjoyed reading it and seeing a different version of the Doctor.
If you want to read this book too, you can go to Feedbooks and download it there for free in different formats.
The Sands of Time
The story is about the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa. During a visit of the British Museum Nyssa is kidnapped by a strange man and Tegan and the Doctor have to find her. They find out that the kidnapping has something to do with an old Egyptian prophecy and that Nyssa's body is used to bring an Egyption god back to life. While the Doctor and Tegan unravel the plan they also have to avoid seeing themselves during their rescue of Nyssa.
I liked the book but it was a bit confusing in some places because it has a lot of leaps in time and it is sometimes difficult to tell in which time you are right now. But the plot was good and I enjoyed reading it and seeing a different version of the Doctor.
If you want to read this book too, you can go to Feedbooks and download it there for free in different formats.
The Sands of Time
10 May 2011
The Doctor's Faith Healing & The Angel has the Phonebox
If you like to read Doctor Who Fan Fiction and also Ebooks then I have something for you. Patrick Mallard wrote a Doctor Who/Buffy/Angel crossover Fan Fiction which is really great.
The first book is called "The Doctor's Faith Healing" and is about the 10th Doctor who is sent to Sunnydale by the Powers That Be to help Buffy, Faith and the others to fight against the First Evil. It seems that one of the Powers That Be has not only the defeat of the First Evil in mind when it sends the Doctor to Sunnydale but also his personal happiness...
The second book is called "The Angel has the Phonebox" and is split into two parts. Both parts play in LA and the Doctor was indirectly sent there to help Angel with his cases. In the first one children fall into a coma after watching the tv show "Smile Time". The Doctor and Angel investigate this case but end up as puppets when they first sneak onto the set. They now have to find out how to reverse their condition and how to save the children. In part two the Doctor challenges Illyria for the fate of Fred's soul and body. Their judge is the demon Sweet and he sets up a singing contest between the two parties to decide who will get Fred's body.
I really liked this two Ebooks and nearly read them at a stretch. It really is a great story and I hope there will be sequel to the books.
You can download them for free here:
The Doctor's Faith Healing
The Angel has the Phonebox
The first book is called "The Doctor's Faith Healing" and is about the 10th Doctor who is sent to Sunnydale by the Powers That Be to help Buffy, Faith and the others to fight against the First Evil. It seems that one of the Powers That Be has not only the defeat of the First Evil in mind when it sends the Doctor to Sunnydale but also his personal happiness...
The second book is called "The Angel has the Phonebox" and is split into two parts. Both parts play in LA and the Doctor was indirectly sent there to help Angel with his cases. In the first one children fall into a coma after watching the tv show "Smile Time". The Doctor and Angel investigate this case but end up as puppets when they first sneak onto the set. They now have to find out how to reverse their condition and how to save the children. In part two the Doctor challenges Illyria for the fate of Fred's soul and body. Their judge is the demon Sweet and he sets up a singing contest between the two parties to decide who will get Fred's body.
I really liked this two Ebooks and nearly read them at a stretch. It really is a great story and I hope there will be sequel to the books.
You can download them for free here:
The Doctor's Faith Healing
The Angel has the Phonebox
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