Camera Obscura
by Lloyd Rose
Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor Adventures (59), Doctor Who {non-TV} (Novels — EDA Novel)
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The Doctor's second heart was taken from his body -- for his own good, he was told. Removed by his sometime ally, sometime rival, the mysterious time-traveller Sabbath. Now, as a new danger menaces reality, the Doctor finds himself working with Sabbath again. From a seance in Victorian London to a wild pursuit on Dartmoor, the Doctor and his companions work frantically to unravel the mystery of this latest threat to Time... Before Time itself unravels.Tags
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The Eighth Doctor Adventures were getting pretty self-referential by this stage, but this is a good case study - Rose brings the Doctor, Fitz and Anji to a very well realised Victorian Engliand, where they find a rogue time machine and a stage act very reminiscent of a Christopher Priest novel that came out not long before; and there are references to Evil of the Daleks and City of Death which are subtle and not pushed too hard. And Sabbath, a recurring character who had so far failed to engage me, turns into a very interesting adversary here, both a foe and an unwitting ally for the Doctor. One of the good ones.
The Eighth Doctor Adventures were getting pretty self-referential by this stage, but this is a good case study - Rose brings the Doctor, Fitz and Anji to a very well realised Victorian Engliand, where they find a rogue time machine and a stage act very reminiscent of a Christopher Priest novel that came out not long before; and there are references to Evil of the Daleks and City of Death which are subtle and not pushed too hard. And Sabbath, a recurring character who had so far failed to engage me, turns into a very interesting adversary here, both a foe and an unwitting ally for the Doctor. One of the good ones.
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- Canonical title
- Camera Obscura
- Original publication date
- 2002-08-05
- People/Characters
- The Doctor (8th); Fitz Kreiner; Anji Kapoor; Sabbath; Death; George Williamson (show all 22); Elizabeth Kelly; Sebastian Chiltern; Nathaniel Chiltern; Constance Jane; Micah Scale; Octave; O'Keagh; Hugo Little; Vera; Henrietta the Narrow-Minded; Reginald the Colossus; Rudy the Dynamic Diminutive; Wobry the Human Serpent; William Pratt; Hemming; George Williamson
- Important places
- Dartmoor, Devon, England, UK; Capel Gorast, Wales, UK (fictional)
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
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