Killing Ground (Doctor Who) [Paperback]

Steve Lyons (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Virgin Publishing Inc. (July 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0426204743
• ISBN-13: 978-0426204749
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #139,699 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps the only realistic Cyberportrayal, January 28, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Killing Ground (Doctor Who) (Paperback)

Killing Ground captures the character of the Sixth Doctor perfectly: all those emotional outbursts to which he was so prone, the reader never really knowing what he's really thinking. In a way, this reads like exceptionally well-written fan-fiction: the exact ways in which the Cybermen go about their conquests are only hinted at in the televised stories. Their ruthlessness comes across exceptionally well here, and the scenes where the Doctor ridicules the Cyber way of 'life' are compelling. This is perhaps the most realistic DW novel in terms of what it would be like to have one's world taken over by an alien power

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For once an angry and violent Doctor, March 5, 2006

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Mario Pollacchi "Gorgon_Leader" (ARMADALE, Western Australia Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Killing Ground (Doctor Who) (Paperback)

The settlement on the planet Agora is teorrorised by the continual visits of the Cybermen who are in desperate need for biological material to propogate their 'race'. Of course, where there are Cybermen there is the DOctor (in his sixth incarnation) and a new companion, Grant Markham.
Together, they take on the Cyberman threat and, in their own way, are responsible for the construction of a new secret weapon.
This original adventure was more grittier than any of the novelised adventures, based on the TV episodes, and, although the characters were more 'human' than characters from TV, Steve Lyons' portrayal of the Doctor seemed to be slightly soap operaish. There seemed to be slightly more anger to the Doctor than in anything I had read before.
The one thing that was glaringly missing, however, was the arrival of the TARDIS. A Doctor Who adventure should not start in the middle of the adventure.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Want know what it's like to become a Cyberman?, December 4, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Killing Ground (Doctor Who) (Paperback)

This book was hard to put down. Definately not boring. There was plenty of action and insight into Grant Markham's origin. The Cyberman return in this novel to wreak havoc in a very beleivable storyline. You won't be disapointed.