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Title: Doctor Who: The Last Resort (Doctor Who) by Paul Leonard ISBN: 0-563-48605-8 Publisher: BBC Worldwide Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Last Resort
Comment: A frustrating, infinitely perplexing, Doctor Who read...a story idea that I think needed to be done, but was almost guaranteed to be confusing beyond all previously known bounds.
Things are a big mess, in this one. The book starts with some kid building a homemade time machine, and after that--well, it's really hard for this reviewer to explain. I'd like to hear the author explain it--or better yet, the Doctor. Anyway, the timeline we know from the series gets various visitors from all sorts of other timelines...timelines that shouldn't even exist. There are several variations of Anji, Fitz, even the Eighth Doctor (once he deigns to appear on the scene). New characters, also, come in duplicates. People die. But, there are other versions of them to take their place. Scenes repeat, slightly different. The same tragedies take place over and over again; repeated victories are far fewer, it seems, though the Doctors, and Anjis, Fitzs, and assorted sundry characters to the tenth power all try to save time and space. Over and over.
It just goes on and on. Characters loop back to earlier portions of their own history. Some key players lose track of what reality they have ended up in--hmmm, is this the reality where Bob Heinlein was a US President, where Ancient Egypt has been fixed up with modern accoutrements due to all the time-travelling types who have shown up, or where the time police come to kill you because you're in the wrong wrongness? Don't ask me. Oh no no no No!--I completely understood it all in the end...uh, I just don't want to spoil it for you. That's right.
And time falling apart in this one...it's all the Doctor's fault this go-round. No, wait, it's Anji's, because all her selves can't seem to decide which Anji should get to live. No, wait, it's all Fitz's fault, because they all keep getting killed. No, I'm wrong, it's the fault of the kid with the jury-rigged time machine, because, uh, because--well, he definitely seems at the center of things. No, it's Sabbath's fault. It must be his fault because there's only one of him in this adventure, and the Doctor seems to think he's evil...
What a weird book! Necessary, but dizzying. No time to read it again, to try and sort it out better, but if another me turns up, he can read it.
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Title: Time Zero (Doctor Who) by Justin Richards ISBN: 056353866X Publisher: BBC Worldwide Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Doctor Who: Loving the Alien (Doctor Who) by Mike Tucker, Robert Perry ISBN: 056348604X Publisher: BBC Worldwide Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Blue Box (Doctor Who) by Kate Orman ISBN: 0563538597 Publisher: BBC Worldwide Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Doctor Who Emotional Chemistry by Simon A. Forward ISBN: 0563486082 Publisher: BBC Worldwide Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Camera Obscura (Doctor Who) by Lloyd Rose ISBN: 0563538570 Publisher: BBC Worldwide Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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