Slitheen/ Blathereen aside, a good adventure. They are an incredibly bad enemy and let down a rather good plot. ( )

My book review:
http://ganimede.dreamwidth.org/12350....
*CONTAINS SPOILERS* ( )

http://nhw.livejournal.com/761346.htm...

This isn't bad. I think Cole catches the Ninth Doctor/Rose banter very well. The monsters of the title are the Slitheen, from "The Aliens of London" and "World War Three" (the internal chronology suggests that this is set before "Boom Town"); their back-story as a species is filled out rather nicely, with some uncertainty as to whether they are allies or enemies. The last word of the title refers not to complex explorations of Inner Space, but to the interplanetary jail in which the Doctor and Rose end up. The descriptions of setting and incidental characters are good. Sadly the actual scientific bit of the plot (the local solar system being sneakily remodelled for sinister criminal purposes) makes no sense at all, but you can't have everything. ( )