Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 stories Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00GK4MEI6 | Format: EPUB
Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 stories Description
The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Anthology is the perfect collection of adventures for Doctor Who fans. This audio edition is the culmination of a year-long series of ebooks to celebrate fifty years of Doctor Who.
Eleven Doctors, eleven stories, eleven unique interpretations of the Doctor, his terrifying alien enemies and his time-travelling adventures.
The authors involved in this exciting project are Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott, Marcus Sedgwick, Philip Reeve, Patrick Ness, Richelle Mead, Malorie Blackman, Alex Scarrow, Charlie Higson, Derek Landy and Neil Gaiman.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 12 hours and 12 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Penguin Books Limited
- Audible.com Release Date: November 21, 2013
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00GK4MEI6
I have been a fan of Doctor Who since the mid-‘80’s. I suppose I am an obsessive fan in my own way; however, my fandom has centered almost entirely on the program as transmitted on TV. Though I like to read nonfiction books about the show and the occasional novelization of an episode, I have no real interest in things like comics and fan fiction. And yet, in the excitement of the 50th anniversary of the show last year, I decided to take a look at this collection of short stories. As I expected, it is a mixed bad.
Overall, most of the stories were a pleasant enough read. On the other hand, for someone who has watched every extant episode of the TV show multiple times, each story had problems as well. The First Doctor story (“A Big Hand for the Doctor”), for example, is one of the best in the book. It has a clever plot and the personalities of the Doctor and Susan come across as being close to their TV-counterparts. Unfortunately, the plot requires some athletics from the Doctor that the William Hartnell character could never have pulled off. Many of the best stories in the book—“The Roots of Evil” (4th Doctor), “The Ripple Effect” (7th Doctor), “Spore” (8th Doctor), “Nothing O’Clock” (11th Doctor)—are like this: clever plots, good characterizations, but something at some point that doesn’t ring quite true.
Of course, any time you have a collection of anything by different authors, the quality is going to vary widely. At its worst, you have stories here that have uninteresting plots (“The Spear of Destiny” (3rd Doctor)), plots that are too derivative (“The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage” (10th Doctor)), or characters that don’t seem to belong to the series at all (“The Beast of Babylon (9th Doctor)).
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