This fourth doctor and Leela story is quite a good one, although the book is a bit short to convey the Time Lord by Gaslight feel of the tv show.

The conflict between Leela's primitive warrior nature and the buttoned down Victorian society types is interesting. As is the Fu Manchu homage, creepy homunculi and more.

One of the better efforts.

http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2009/11... ( )

http://nhw.livejournal.com/1007902.ht...

Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang loses out in the visual stakes compared with the TV version, but gains a bit with occasional tight-third narrative from Leela's point of view, which accentuates one of the successful aspects of the story, the confrontation between her primitive experience and the Victorian era. ( )