http://nhw.livejournal.com/1033342.ht...

This was one of those books which, on rereading, failed to live up to my fond childhood memories. Hulke irritatingly switches between writing down for a younger audience and meandering into heavy-handed political parable. For whatever reason, it is written as if it were Jo Grant's first story; and the introduction is much more clumsily handled than in Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons. The back-story of the human colonists is ripped off unimaginatively from dozens of better sf books about future dystopias. And the whole plot basically makes no sense. The least good of the Hulke books so far. ( )

Master impersonation plan.

A Third Doctor story, and a malfunctioning TARDIS, too. As the Doctor is showing Jo his impressive piece of equipment it takes off on them and they are stranded in the middle of a dispute between workers and management on a mining colony world.

A nasty shock is had by our favorite Time Lord when the master turns up as the labour arbitrator sent to deal with it.

http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2007/11... ( )