Doctor Who: the Slitheen Excursion [Audio Cassette]

Simon Guerrier (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 8, 2010

1500BC - King Actaeus and his subjects live in mortal fear of the awesome gods who have come to visit their kingdom in ancient Greece. Except the Doctor, visiting with university student June, knows they're not gods at all. They're aliens! With June's enthusiastic help, the Doctor soon meets the travel agents behind this deadly package holiday company - his old enemies the Slitheen! But can he bring the Slitheen excursion to an end without endangering more lives? And how are events in ancient Greece linked to a modern-day alien plot to destroy what's left of the Parthenon?

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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About the Author

Simon Guerrier is the author of the Doctor Who novels The Time Travellers, featuring the First Doctor, and The Pirate Loop, featuring the Tenth Doctor. He's written numerous short stories and 10 audio plays for Big Finish Productions (including the seventh Doctor's meeting with Oliver Cromwell) as well as an episode of the new Blake's 7. He's also the editor of How The Doctor Changed My Life, a collection of 25 short stories all by first-time authors, to be published in September 2008. He lives in London with a bright wife and a dim cat. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd; Abridged edition edition (April 8, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1408426560
• ISBN-13: 978-1408426562
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Simon Guerrier is the author of the Doctor Who novels The Time Travellers, featuring the First Doctor, and The Pirate Loop and The Slitheen Excursion, featuring the Tenth Doctor. He's written numerous Doctor Who short stories and audio plays for Big Finish Productions (including the seventh Doctor's meeting with Oliver Cromwell), as well as original books and audio plays for Blake's 7, Being Human, Primeval, Robin Hood and Sapphire and Steel. He lives in London with a bright wife and a dim cat.

His blog is http://0tralala.blogspot.com

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Overall, a cracking good read, January 24, 2010

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K. Coleman "Wildrider" (Phoenix, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Doctor Who: The Slitheen Excursion (Doctor Who (BBC Hardcover)) (Hardcover)

On the whole, I've enjoyed most of the books in the Doctor Ten series; they're quick, fun little reads and I don't ask much from them other than being good with characterization (check) with a good story (check) and marginally good editing (well...); and it's that last that lead me to a written review.

While overall, I found "The Slitheen Excursion" one of the finest of the Doctor Ten series -- it's sharp, it's funny, it's fun, it's well-researched, and author Simon Guerrier has created one of the best companions for Ten since Donna in vacationing university student June (who I'd actually love to see again), the problem I had with this book was the preponderance of misused words -- constant uses of your in place of you're (or reversed), a merman alien who slithered on his "fishy tale" (big oops there) and when June "laughed out loud at the site of the TARDIS" (as in, she was beholding it -- sight -- not reaching the site where it stood). Every time I'd run into one of these mistakes I found it very jarring, and it increases my worries about publishing houses that rely on spellcheck programs over a line editor they can't afford to pay.

But other than those errors, it's really a good book, and I'm glad they're still printing them for us; and for a while, anyway, we'll have Doctor Ten to enjoy.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Plot, Great Characters, Poor Editing, May 17, 2010

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CatBookMom (Los Angeles area, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Doctor Who: The Slitheen Excursion (Doctor Who (BBC Hardcover)) (Hardcover)

I agree with K. Coleman's review. This is an excellent Doctor Who spin-off story about the Slitheen and Doctor Ten. Excursion travel into Earth's past is just the sort of scam that you might expect from the Slitheen, and it's a fun read. But the editing is really poor, something unexpected from the Beeb. It is annoying, and K Coleman is right, when you run across one of the more egregious errors it does jar you out of the story.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointment, October 2, 2010

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Petra (The Netherlands) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Doctor Who: The Slitheen Excursion (Doctor Who (BBC Hardcover)) (Kindle Edition)

I should have known better than to buy a book with spelling/grammar errors. If the editors miss mistakes like that, they surely haven't bothered to actually read it. I have read fanfiction that has better quality than this.

The doctor was unrecognizable (so much so that I checked the cover twice to make sure that this was indeed the 10th doctor), the supporting character June a total bore and the rest of the characters one-dimensional, interchangeable and acting completely illogical.

This gets two stars instead of one because it started out fairly good, describing June's first encounter with The Doctor (which is why I bought the book). The story is for the most part told from June's point of view, which isn't a bad thing in itself as long as the story focuses on The Doctor. Instead we see her running around a lot with no real purpose.

I'm sorry to say that I didn't finish the book, so I can't comment on the plot, except that up to the point where I got, it was all over the place.

I greatly enjoyed 'Prisoner of the Daleks' and 'The Nightmare on Black Island' and I recommend those instead of this one. I will not be reading any more books from this writer.