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imakandiway's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
nwhyte's review against another edition
http://nhw.livejournal.com/1033342.html?#cutid4[return][return]This was one of those books which, on rereading, failed to live up to my fond childhood memories. Hulke irritatingly switches between writing down for a younger audience and meandering into heavy-handed political parable. For whatever reason, it is written as if it were Jo Grant's first story; and the introduction is much more clumsily handled than in Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons. The back-story of the human colonists is ripped off unimaginatively from dozens of better sf books about future dystopias. And the whole plot basically makes no sense. The least good of the Hulke books so far.
thiefofcamorr's review against another edition
3.0
Amusing. Not much else to say about it, other than it was very much 'tell' instead of 'show', even when it was evident what was happening.
esperata's review against another edition
3.0
There's a lot of added information here. We learn more about Gallifrey, the IMC, the colonists and the Primitives than can be shown in the TV series. However, I don't understand why this story is presented as the first meeting of Jo and the Doctor. It makes the relationship between Jo and the Doctor less warm. The author also skips some of the bantering between the Doctor and the Master thus making their relationship more black and white.
In the descriptions of the robots and Primitives you get the sense of what the producers might have liked to do with a bigger budget. They don't sound like they looked on TV. So some good points and some negative.
For the audio version, Geoffrey Beaver has a very good narrative voice.
In the descriptions of the robots and Primitives you get the sense of what the producers might have liked to do with a bigger budget. They don't sound like they looked on TV. So some good points and some negative.
For the audio version, Geoffrey Beaver has a very good narrative voice.
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