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| Topic Started: 23 Aug 2008, 20:08 (65 Views) | |
| Jedikatie | 23 Aug 2008, 20:08 Post #1 |
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Last night I read one of the two novels I'd bought a few days ago, with featured Martha as the Doctor's companion in it. That book was called Peacemaker, by James Swallow. It's a book set in the American Old West, though how the Doctor and Martha end up there is actually due to the fact that Martha had wanted to watch an old western movie, but the cinema they went to (on a literal Planet Hollywood, for that matter) was closed for repairs due to a showing of Earthquake the week before that had literally brought down the floor of the theater. It's a fairly typical western town of the 1880s that they land in, except that the people there have just gotten through an epidemic. Worse, it was a smallpox epidemic, which only killed four of the townsfolk. It seems that a traveling medicine show man happened to come to the town as the epidemic was getting a real hold on them, and he just happened to have a cure for those afflicted. Astonished to learn that the town had survived with so few causalities from the epidemic, the Doctor and Martha try and learn more. The Doctor takes a sample of the "cure all" that the medicine show man had sold the people back to the TARDIS--and lo and behold, it's nothing more than the usual snake oil that those guys purvey to those desperate enough to buy it--it certainly wasn't the cause of the sudden miracle cure of those afflicted with smallpox (who were back up walking around, healthy as horses, the next day after his visit). Meanwhile, two men are searching for the "healer" and leaving a trail of death and destruction until they find him... It was an entertaining enough book--I got through the 238 pages of it in about an hour and forty minutes--and I could see it as one of the episodes of the show. There's the usual unstoppable warriors, who end out being defeated by the Doctor, and him givng a schoolteacher in the town a book at the end of the novel that won't be written for another ten years or so... a little tome called The Time Machine by H.G. Wells. |
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| Jedikatie | 27 Aug 2008, 06:47 Post #2 |
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Okay, I just finished a few minutes ago the other Doctor Who novel I bought. This one was called Martha in the Mirror by Justin Richards. The Doctor and Martha end up at this castle (which was going to be some historical amusement park type of thing, only they arrived a bit early for that) during the final negotiations for a peace treaty between two warring peoples. Martha, during the tour, was rather astounded to discover that the castle is actually located in space (with a protective semi-permeable bubble around it, which allows things that are going at a rather slow speed to enter, but if they're going to fast, they go splat). The Doctor and Martha pretend to be observers from the Galactic Alliance in order to have the run of the castle, and discover several mysteries going on--like the little girl who's been pursued by the dead twin and the plot to stop the treaty from being signed. All in all, it was enjoyable enough, though I don't think they could have managed to make it an episode unless they did a lot of CGI work on it... |
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| Jedikatie | 6 Sep 2008, 15:30 Post #3 |
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I was over at the book store today (actually looking for Star Trek: Myriad Universes, which is out, but apparently they don't have it), and saw that they had another Doctor/Martha book over there called The Many Hands. I didn't get it, though I might next week, along with the three Torchwood novels that they still had. Which they had shelved with the spines out so it looked really cool--you saw that the particular order the books were shelved in were meant to be shelved that way, because the picture on the spines formed one big group picture of the Torchwood cast... kind of neat, actually. But still, it's neat that my local bookstore is finally getting some of these novels, after they ditched all the Doctor Who (and most of the Star Trek) stuff after Books-a-Million bought them out some time ago. Now if they would just get some of the novels of the Doctor with Donna... |
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