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Loading... Doctor Who: The Ark (edition 1987)by Paul Erickson
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The first of what would become an occasional theme in Doctor who (mind, after forty odd years, totally new stories are a bit rare), sees the Doctor and his companions find the remnants of Humanity and their Monoid servants escaping the destruction of Earth. Everything is seemingly hunky-dory until an introduced illness changes the balance of power ( ) http://nhw.livejournal.com/825455.html Paul Erickson added some extra chrome into the book version of The Ark which was, I suppose, not realisable on screen, notably the numerous different habitats on the Guardian/Monoid spaceships, and a second invisible Refusian. Also the motivation for the Monoids' peculiar decision to send the Doctor and Dodo on an exploratory mission is (just about) rationalised. I had forgotten just how bloodthirsty the climax is, as the Monoids wipe each other out in a firefight (and here Erickson gives in to Ian Marter-style temptation to make the fighting even more vicious on the page). I felt, however, that the characterisation of the first Doctor was a bit shaky, with a bit too much use of "old chap" which is not really one of his catchphrases. no reviews | add a review
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An unabridged reading of this exciting novelisation of a First Doctor television adventure. It is ten million years in the future, and the Earth is about to plunge into the Sun. A gigantic Space Ark has been launched, to take the last of humanity to a new life on the planet Refusis II. Accompanying the humans on their journey are the Monoids, strange reptilian creatures from an alien world. When the TARDIS materialises on board, the Doctor and his friends are greeted with suspicion, which soon turns to open hostility when Dodo inadvertently infects the Ark's crew with a long-forgotten virus. It is an accident which will have a terrible effect on mankind, an effect which will last for seven hundred years... Duration: 4 hours approx. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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