An Eighth Doctor novel with Fitz and Anji. The Doctor, Fitz and Anji are forced to land in inhospitable terrain as something disables the Tardis. Reconnaissance proves it to be a planet in revolt, with colonists trying to break free from the harsh clutches of the Plutocratic Empire. The principal weapon in this war: time itself. Soldiers continually find themselves in Time Storms: without protective clothing, they are aged to death in seconds. The Tardis crew are picked up by empire personnel, and discover the empire's hope for victory: a primitive time-travel capsule. It is undergoing tests at the moment, but the men who return from these missions return horribly changed. They're picking up a terrible infection: anachrophobia; losing their time-orientation; travelling backwards and forwards within their own lifetimes; losing their minds. The Doctor is desperate to halt the spread of the disease, but his efforts are constantly frustrated. The plague reveals that there's a lot more about the motives of all involved than anybody had imagined...
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
As good of an eight doctor story as you can think of.,
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This review is from: Anachrophobia (Doctor Who) (Mass Market Paperback)
I'm a pretty big fan of DOCTOR WHO. With the arrival of the internet (and the way it's made easier for a fan in Holland in obtaining WHO related items) my fandom has grown, and over the last few months I must admit it even has become kind of an obsession.I really like the DOCTOR WHO novels the BBC has churned out these last few years (too bad the've cut back recently) and I am in awe of the more than brilliant writers that since have contributed to this series. Think of people like Mark Gatiss, David McIntee, Christopher Bulis and Lance Parkin. ...And now you can add Jonathan Morris to that list. Although this is the eight and last incarnation of the Doctor (so far anyway, I heard rumors about a new BBC tv-series coming up) ANACHROPHBIA is almost vintage WHO with it's claustrofobic/ under siege/ Pat Throughton kind of setting and the science based theories concerning timetravel and future societies. I won't go into the plot (for this please read the Amazon description and the other reviews) I just have to tell you there's some great concepts (something evil lurking in time itself, the greed and profit based future etc) and the icy, snowcovered planet and abandoned, bunkerlike facility as locations really work. On the strenght of this I also bought Jonathan Morris' other BBC DOCTOR WHO novel; FESTIVAL OF DEATH (featuring another favorite of mine, the fourth doctor). I just can't wait to gobble that one up!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable, But Padded,
By Henry "Henry" (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Anachrophobia (Doctor Who) (Mass Market Paperback)
This is my second Jonathan Morris novel after Festival of Death. I enjoyed the book overall. The plot and story are orginal, inventive, and unique, yet still very Doctor Who. The dialogue is good, and the supporting characters are well-written. I especially liked the "monsters" The Doctor has to stop in this book. Morris has a very clever idea which is fleshed out well and explained satisfactorily at the end.
However, I noticed at times, the book felt padded in some places to meet the required number of pages by BBC Books. It seemed to get slow in certain places, and events seemed to drag on, and dialogue seemed to drag on, and nothing much would happen. Or the same things would happen, or it would take forever to explain how an event happened. Such padding, while annoying, is actually ironic for a story about time repeating itself, slowing down, or speeding up, but I don't think this irony was intentional.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Arc Fever,
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This review is from: Anachrophobia (Doctor Who) (Mass Market Paperback)
If you're reading this review, you probably already know author Jonathan Morris from his 4th Doctor story "Festival of Death". You also probably know that he looks to be one of the most brilliant talents churned out by the decade-old "Doctor Who" books series. Here's a guy who can tie together complicated sci-fi concepts, air-tight plotting, and nifty characterizations, all without breaking a sweat. After one chapter of "Anachrophobia" I was looking to petition Amazon.com to allow me to give this book 6 stars.Then, I hit the rest of the book. Make no mistake, "Anachrophobia" has a brilliant setup. The early scenery is crisp: a planet stuck in time on a winter's night in a leafless forest. The story background is Douglas Adams funny: a plutocratic empire wages war against a ragtag team of loan defaulters. And there's real horror, as characters are killed not by bullets, but by accelerated (or decelerated) bursts of time itself. What bogs the book down is the lack of that something Extra. Maybe I was waiting too long for the book to tie back into the arc-changing events of "The Adventuress of Henrietta Street" a few books back. After the clock villains arrive... they simply lumber around for 150 pages, and become less menacing with each attack. It takes forever for the action to get out of the tiny underground bunker and back into the forest (or elsewhere). A character arrives on page 100 who's so obviously a decoy that I found myself skipping ahead (unsuccessfully) to the final pages in search of the name of the character he simply had to be. When the climax finally arrives, the book returns to brilliance. The sequence in which the Doctor is offered a chance to reshape his own past is of high TV-quality (I'd love to see this filmed). However, the Big Revelation is saved for literally the final three pages, and I'm afraid I was left scratching my head more than I was picking myself up off the floor. Raising more questions than you answer is a good thing... but this one basically negates the entire book and, while it's not a cheat, I thought it could have been revealed 20 pages earlier. In the final analysis, "Anachrophobia" continues the vast upward trend of the 8th Doctor books since the recent story arc began. Editor Justin Richards gets massive credit for his ability to link each of the books together, through well-placed references to the past 2 or 3 adventures. The events of "Adventuress" have paid off immediate dividends, unlike earlier EDA arcs which never quite managed to create cliffhanger tension from book to book. Add this to Morris's crisp writing and brilliant ideas (the Doctor's quote on pg 136 is possibly the funniest thing he's ever said) and you still have one of the best EDAs yet produced.
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