The Doctor's home planet of Gallifrey has been destroyed. The Time Lords are dead, their TARDISes annihilated. The man responsible has been tracked down and lured to Earth in the year 2005, where there will be no escape. But Earth has its hands full - a mystery signal is being received from a radio telescope, there's a second moon in the sky, and a primordial alien menace has been unleashed. The stage is set for the ultimate confrontation. Now, the last of the Time Lords must ensure that justice is done. The Doctor and his companions Fitz and Trix will meet their destiny. And this time, the Doctor isn't going to be able to save everybody. This is the last in the continuing series of original adventures of the Eighth Doctor.
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A Great Footnote in Dr. Who canon!,
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This review is from: Doctor Who: The Gallifrey Chronicles (Doctor Who (BBC Paperback)) (Paperback)
A mysterious Earth-bound Timelord watches, evaluates the Doctor in a stream of seemingly unrelated adventures, the Doctor's home planet of Gallifrey, the Timelords, their TARDISes, a companion all dead and gone the Doctor's memories maybe gone too. Is the Doctor responsible?It's fitting that Lance Parkin writes the last (of the continuing) adventures featuring Paul McGann's 8th incarnation of the Doctor, since Parkin wrote the first original novel featuring this Doctor in The Dying Days (The New Adventures from Virgin Publishing). It is a well-earned honor, because like his other novels ("The Infinity Doctors" is brillant!), this is another great one. The voices of the Doctor and his companions, Trix and Fitz, who are preparing to depart, are clear and consistent. This is a good novel to make way for the Eccleston 9th incarnation novels soon to the "flood" shelves. As "The Gallifrey Chronicles" represent the end of an era of sorts and the begining of a new one, a personal irony in this regard is that this novel is all that remains of my Dr. Who book collection due to Katrina. Hopefully future offerings from Mr. Parkin and BBC books will be as good as this and make rebuilding my collection worthwhile.
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Not all the answers ...,
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are inside this book. Though the author himself has said you did not need have read any of the previous EDA books, it would be better if you had, especially the past 5 or 6, to catch all of the references.That being said, though, I have read this book twice now and have enjoyed most of it, if not all. I found the romance between Fitz and Trix boring (which is why I don't read romances) and could have lived without the constant move away from the main characters of the story, namely the Doctor himself and Marnal, whose interaction with the Doctor lead to some of the more interesting revelations of the book. No, it does not go into how Gallifrey is destroyed the first time (an important point to remember is that it is *not* the same destruction of said planet which has taken place before the beginning of the current series). That was covered in Ancestor Cell several years ago. It does, however, clarify certain points from that particular book and actually makes sense of some of the actions which took place at the time. More importantly, The Gallifrey Chronicles pays tribute to all the fans of Doctor Who who have kept faith with the series over the years and kept it alive so that it could return in triumph (if with some questions) this past year.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Fantastic!,
By April McKenna "April" (New York, New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Doctor Who: The Gallifrey Chronicles (Doctor Who (BBC Paperback)) (Paperback)
This book is superb. I haven't read many Doctor Who novels, and I didn't feel left out at all. It was a very clever book, a strong Doctor Who story that's also a commentary on Doctor Who stories. What surprised me is how funny it was. I'm a big fan of Alias and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials stories and it doesn't surprise me that Mr Parkin has also written about both of those. This book has the same pace and complexity. Lots of really big ideas, but never losing track of the story and characters. Very impressive stuff, and the author clearly loves Doctor Who ... but I'd say it was also a good novel in its own right. Are all the other Doctor Who novels this big and clever? If so, I've got a lot of catching up to do.
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