The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Collection. Eleven Classic Adventures. Eleven Brilliant Writers. One Incredible Doctor.
It would be a terrible shame were Terrance Dicks not represented in the 50th year of Doctor Who. Dicks is the granddaddy of Doctor Who novels, having scripted over a hundred of the Target novelisations. What is a shame, however, is that he was represented by the novel Players. This book is incredibly similar to Dicks’ co-scripted The War Games, which saw the second Doctor depart from our screens.
This is a novel unlike any of the sixth Doctor’s visual adventures, with little alien or sci-fi features reaching the front of the story apart from the Doctor and companion Peri. The main ‘threat’ behind the story is alien and yet it feels unexplored, meaning this book leaves the reader feeling unsatisfied. The titular ‘Players’ barely get a mention and the Doctor doesn’t even...
It would be a terrible shame were Terrance Dicks not represented in the 50th year of Doctor Who. Dicks is the granddaddy of Doctor Who novels, having scripted over a hundred of the Target novelisations. What is a shame, however, is that he was represented by the novel Players. This book is incredibly similar to Dicks’ co-scripted The War Games, which saw the second Doctor depart from our screens.
This is a novel unlike any of the sixth Doctor’s visual adventures, with little alien or sci-fi features reaching the front of the story apart from the Doctor and companion Peri. The main ‘threat’ behind the story is alien and yet it feels unexplored, meaning this book leaves the reader feeling unsatisfied. The titular ‘Players’ barely get a mention and the Doctor doesn’t even...
- 5/16/2013
- by Matt Holsman
- Obsessed with Film
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