It is England, Earth, in the year 2019. The Doctor, Fitz, and Compassion land on a bleak plain, near a derelict city where mods and rockers are converging to fight out their differences. While the Doctor is taken prisoner by the rockers, Fitz is whisked away by the mods. In the midst of the gang wars, can the Doctor find out what transported the mods and rockers to the derelict city and why?
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Falls far short of its potential,
By Andrew McCaffrey "The Grumpy Young Man" (Satellite of Love, Maryland) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Space Age (Doctor Who Series) (Paperback)
Where did THE SPACE AGE go wrong? The premise to the book is fascinating. It has several interesting things to say about maturing and the nature of conflict. It even has a very good characterization of the Doctor. So why was it such a chore to read?From reading the back cover, one can tell that the setting of this book will be captivating. It promises the flying cars and jetpacks that the future as seen from the 50s predicted. It's the Year 2000 AD and mankind has an advanced civilization with hot and cold running robots and computers so that every single human need is taken care of. The life of the each person can be spent in the pursuit of pleasure with none of the dirty work that everyday life in the present affords us. Unfortunately after delivering this wonderful setup to the story, Steve Lyons does nothing with it. After reading the book in its entirety, I can say that the story doesn't touch a fraction of the potential that it had going in to it. With only a few alterations, the book could have been set almost anywhere. The inhabitants of this Future City are all natives of an English town in 1965. Somehow they were taken from their proper location and placed in this luxurious city. Virtually everyone that was taken was a member of one of two 60s gangs, the mods and the rockers. This sets up the middle of section of the book in which various people do very little else than beat the living daylights out of each other (and during the slow moments, they make elaborate plans about how they will next beat the living daylights out of each other). It's extremely tedious, and unfortunately, this sort of boring runaround makes up almost the entire book. Although I suspect this was done on purpose, it was difficult to read about the two groups, as they were virtually indistinguishable, so it was very hard to keep track of which side was which. There are a few nice sections. Compassion is barely featured in the book, but the little pieces that we do get are extremely well written. Also, there is some fairly interesting stuff about growing up and moving on. The problem is that this theme is spread so thin that it almost isn't worth the effort - a shame this wasn't really followed up on. In short, the beginning of book is super, the ending of the book is quite good, but the middle hundred and fifty odd pages or so are mind numbingly boring. It's extremely frustrating to read as one can almost taste the excellent story that's down here begging to get out. The sections that follow the end of hostilities reach excellence and it's really a shame that they didn't occur about fifty pages earlier.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
There's only little I can say about this book...,
This review is from: The Space Age (Doctor Who Series) (Paperback)
It's definitely a good Doctor Who book, but just let me tell you, pay no attention to back cover. The only other thing that I've got to say is that I've read almost all the the eighth doctor's books and, well, this just book makes me want read the next one in the series. It's as simple as that.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
My first Doctor Who book,
By John Alexander Jarrell (Woodbridge, Va) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Space Age (Doctor Who Series) (Paperback)
This is the first Doctor Who book I have bought. But I bought it in a mall in Norfolk, Virginia. It is a good depiction of rival gangs fighting for control like in the movie "The Outsiders". This time the gang fight is on an airless planetoid in the year 3012. The gangs believe it to be 2019, nearly 1000 years off, wouldn't you say. And the book nearly had elements of "West Side Story" with the characters Alec and Sandra, but weren't the happy couple. Alec was always eager to wipe out the Mods. As a result, Sandra left him. Next time make sure that the one you love has the best interests at heart as you do, that's what I say. It could keep you from making a serious mistake.
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