3/22/2023 0 Comments Doctor who nuclear time![]() ![]() Although, it's odd-the "Who" novel I read previous to this one was "The Way Through the Woods", and in that review, I mentioned how that book had next to no Doctor in it, and focused mostly on the companions. These books pretty much play out like a professionally published fan fiction, and the Doctor behaves and sounds like he would on the show proper. These books are pretty much just for fans of Doctor Who, as there's plenty of references to various episodes of the show, so the writing pretty much expects you to already know who the Doctor and Amy are, what the TARDIS is, and so on. Now our favorite timelord must use this time distortion to his advantage to find a way to save his friends, navigate a town full of killer robots, and fix the time stream before this incident ignites a nuclear war. And though the Doctor is able to prevent the atom bomb from destroying everything, the result of using the TARDIS to contain a nuclear explosion causes the Doctor's timeline to become corrupted, with him now traveling backwards in time-his actions and reactions reversed and sped forward at random intervals. At the same time, we also see the story of Colonel Geoff Redvers an army man who has become jaded since the outcome of the Vietnam War, as well as Doctor Albert Gilroy-the scientist who built the robots and his unhealthy attachment to his greatest creations, even after the government decided to turn his life's work into undercover assassins. ![]() military are about to drop an atomic bomb on the town to destroy them. And that's when our trio make a horrifying discovery-these overly-perky neighbors are actually robots.and the U.S. The houses seem hastily put together, none of the appliances work, and the townsfolk are super friendly.TOO friendly. The picturesque town they've landed in-Appletown-isn't what it appears to be. Taking place during the time of the Eleventh Doctor, he and his companions, Amy and Rory, arrive in America circa 1981, and immediately stumble into a mystery. But all of them still capture the spirit of the show playing out like actual episodes, while being able to utilize things that would be extremely difficult to create on the show (in terms of special effects). ![]() All of them have different writers, and all of them vary in degrees of quality. And when I discovered there were a ton of novels based on the show as well, I knew I had to check them out. The rest of the story- the US Government trying to destroy their own prototypes of androids disguised as humans as they are too successful and too deadly- is more straightforward and runs a little bit like a Third Doctor story, with plastic men coming to life and a struggle between a brilliant scientist Albert and closed-minded military man Geoff.Īmy and Rory don't make much of an appearance, which again works well as they're not needed, as we concentrate on the Doctor coming to terms with being hurled around time without his TARDIS.Įver since the relaunch in 2005, I've been a fan of Doctor Who (and have later gone back to watch the classic series as well). It's a very interesting new twist that leads to a very complicated but understandable story, that doesn't patronise the reader with over-explanation and which might have you skipping back through the pages to double-check things, which in my opinion isn't a bad thing, though younger readers might get a little confused. "Nuclear Time" manages to bring a new idea into the time travel element of the Who universe, as the Doctor finds himself running backwards through time in ways he can't control. ![]()
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