System Shock

by Justin Richards (Author)

Series: Doctor Who: Missing Adventures (11), Doctor Who {non-TV} (MA Novel)

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Member:	LucasTrask
Title:	System Shock
Authors:	Justin Richards (Author)
Info:	Doctor Who Books, an imprint of Virgin Publishing, London; first edition
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System Shock doesn't quite make it to being better than average, unfortunately. The Doctor and Sarah Jane arrive in London in 1998 to find aliens invading and Harry Sullivan now senior in MI5. The aliens are amusingly addicted to management-speak, and there are some nice riffs on the digital culture of the era. But inserting the quintessentially 70s characters of the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith into a late 1990s setting is a bold stroke that somehow doesn't come off, and the presentation of Harry as 20 years older and considerably wiser doesn't quite live up to its promise. (

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A rebellion on another planet. A kidnapping in central London. The head of MI5 assassinated. A hostage siege suddenly and violently ended by the SAS. A computer CD slipped into the Doctor's pocket by a dead man... It's 1998, and the global information superhighway is about to come on line. OffNet controls everything digital from cars to sliding doors, from interactive television to military command and control systems. The Doctor and Sarah must join forces with an old friend in a race against time: to prevent the breakdown of technological society and foil an unconventional alien takeover bid.

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