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Format: |
Book |
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Written by: |
Trevor Baxendale |
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Publisher: |
BBC Books |
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ISBN: |
1846076412 |
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Product Release Date: |
2/4/2009 |
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RRP: |
£6.99 |
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Reviewed by: |
James Sykes |
The Daleks are advancing, their empire constantly
expanding in to Earth s space. The Earth forces are resisting the Daleks
in every way they can. But the battles rage on across countless solar
systems. And now the future of our galaxy hangs in the balance...
The Doctor finds himself stranded on board a starship near the frontline
with a group of ruthless bounty hunters. Earth Command will pay them for
every Dalek they kill, every eye stalk they bring back as proof.
With the Doctor s help, the bounty hunters achieve the ultimate prize: a
Dalek prisoner intact, powerless, and ready for interrogation. But where
the Daleks are involved, nothing is what it seems, and no one is safe.
Before long the tables will be turned, and how will the Doctor survive
when he becomes a prisoner of the Daleks?
Featuring the Doctor as played by David Tennant in the hit BBC
Television series.
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Submitted: |
11/4/2010 |
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Reviewer: |
James Sykes |
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It could be said that the New Series BBC novels have the
tendency to be simpler, less engaging and frankly less enjoyable than
the old ones. There are a few exceptions, however, and Prisoner
of the Daleks is one of them.
Trevor Baxendale, one of the strongest writers for
Doctor Who novels, brilliantly captures the Doctor's character. You can
always imagine Tennant saying the dialogue. He also turns one of the
staple ingredients for these companion-less-stories on its head, in that
the Doctor meets a would-be companion right away, but she is then
promptly killed off, leaving him friendless with a group of bounty
hunters. The other characters occasionally come off as being a little
generic, but Baxendale does try to flesh them out a bit, making it
vaguely shocking when they are gradually exterminated, although Cutting
Edge resembles Cole Train, from the Gears of War Xbox game.
The Daleks are also well written, and the different font for their
dialogue is a nice touch. While Baxendale re-uses a lot of New Series
stuff with the Daleks, he also manages to give the story a new spin, and
it's a shame that this wasn't used as a TV story, rather than
Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks,
for example.
Told at a relentless pace, with the ever crowd-pleasing Daleks, this is
certainly one of the strongest, if not the best, of the New Series
novels.
 
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