Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive [Paperback]

David Fisher (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Carol Pub Group (May 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0426201477
• ISBN-13: 978-0426201472
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,271,272 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

David Fisher is senior pastor of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York. He was formerly senior pastor of Colonial Church in Edina, MN.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Holiday in other people's misery, January 7, 2001

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This review is from: Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive (Paperback)

The Doctor and Romana are relaxing on Brighton Beach when K9 has a little accident - he really should have been waterproofed. So they leave the metal mutt to dry out and start a different holiday, at the Leisure Hive on Argolis. Argolis is a sterile wasteland since the war with the Foamasi, and the Leisure Hive is the only way they can continue to survive, through the money paid by galactic tourists. But its not all fun and games, and their is murder afoot, and the Doctor is the number one suspect...

Season eighteen of Doctor Who, Tom Baker's last in the role, starts off with this story. This story is a great improvement on what we were served up in season seventeen and the novelisations also had a change as well - many of them are now written by the original authors, rather than the ubiquitous Terrance Dicks. The upshot of this is that the novels themselves are fresher, and tend to expand on the original TV serial rather than simply recounting them.

This one has a good storyline, with several twists, and David Fisher's writing style is quite good as well.