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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. nwhyte | Mar 29, 2009 |   Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket is an interesting story that is a fast and enjoyable read. The Doctor and Rose get stuck in a technological dead zone where neither the TARDIS nor modern technology works. As a result, Starfall’s residents rely on steam power for daily tasks and even space travel. I guess they have a lot of water. Soon after landing the Doctor and Rose realize that something is wrong. I found the pseudo-bad-guy seriously absurd. Aside from that, the story is very good and the banter between the Doctor and Rose is fantastic. The ending is a bit predictable but nevertheless rewarding. (  )archivesman | Jan 4, 2009 | The Doctor and Rose land on a planet that is in a area with no electricity (some sort of perpetual EMP sort of thing) and have to get the TARDIS off-planet and out of that field. Everything within it runs on steam, including spaceships and robots. Very steampunk. They get caught up in a space pirate mystery in the process of getting out. Fairly predictable at times, but fun. It reminded me of a couple of Star Trek episodes at several points. I liked the end very much, and Kevin was definitely my favorite character. (  )bluesalamanders | Jul 31, 2008 | For fans of the Doctor Who TV series, not really going to appreciated by others. (  )ceart99 | Jan 20, 2008 | Oh dear. A steampunk space pirate treasure hunt. Should be fun? But blatant borrowing from Treasure Island, easily predicated twists and poor characterisation of Rose and the tenth Doctor drag it down into mediocrity. (  )stevepugh | Sep 13, 2006 | 0.037 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0563486422, Hardcover)Starfall - a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work. The pioneers who used to be drawn by the hope of making a fortune from the mines can find easier picking elsewhere. But they still come - for the romance of it, or old-fashioned organic mining. Or in the hope of finding the lost treasure of Hamlek Glint - scourge of the spaceways, privateer, adventurer and bandit. Will the TARDIS ever work again? Is Glint's lost treasure waiting to be found? And does the fabled Resurrection Casket - the key to eternal life - really exist? With the help of new friends, and to the horror of new enemies, The Doctor and Rose aim to find out...(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:22 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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An unexceptional sf adventure involving space pirates and anthropomorphic robots. This must have been one of the first Tenth Doctor books - his character seems very Nine-ish in places. Also he is rather too eager to kill off the baddies. (