The Crooked World
by Steve Lyons
Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor Adventures (57), Doctor Who {non-TV} (Novels — EDA Novel)
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An Eighth Doctor novel with Fitz and Anji. On a crooked world with crooked buildings, a farmer hunts a big purple bird with a blunderbuss. Just as he seems to have cornered the sneaky pest, a big blue box appears on the cliff top, and two strange men step out. Confused, the farmer shoots one of them directly in the chest, and is even more confused when he seems genuinely hurt by this, instead of just going black and crispy for a few minutes. The TARDIS has landed on a bizarre world, upon show more which everything conforms to cartoon logic. But the TARDIS's arrival brings change to the crooked world. New concepts are introduced, and people start to question why they have always acted the way they do. Cats are no longer sure whether they want to chase mice, and a teenage pop band begins to get tired of the way its van always breaks down in spooky woods and foggy areas. And worse, the cartoon logic starts to crumble under scrutiny. People can really be injured and die, and no one knows how to deal with this. show lessTags
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A hilarious yet dark mixup of the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji with the Hanna-Barbera cartoons of the 1970s (and a dash of Roger Rabbit). The Scooby-Doo sections are particularly good at getting under the skin of what is really going on there. It would be very easy for a story with this premise to misfire completetly, but Lyons is an effective writer who keeps it on track throughout.
A hilarious yet dark mixup of the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji with the Hanna-Barbera cartoons of the 1970s (and a dash of Roger Rabbit). The Scooby-Doo sections are particularly good at getting under the skin of what is really going on there. It would be very easy for a story with this premise to misfire completetly, but Lyons is an effective writer who keeps it on track throughout.
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- Canonical title
- The Crooked World
- Original publication date
- 2002-06-03
- People/Characters
- The Doctor (8th); Fitz Kreiner; Anji Kapoor; Angel Falls; Mr Weasley; Jasper the Cat (show all 21); Squeak; Boss Dog; Streaky Bacon; Whatchamacallit; Scrapper Dogg; Baby Stork; Dirty Duck; Green Ghost; Gruenwald; Grumper; Harmony Looker; Mike Leader; Repugna; Sir Percival; Thelma Brains
- Important places
- The Crooked World; Zanytown; Gloomy Forest
- First words
- The sun smiled down on the Crooked World, but the pig farmer felt as if it were laughing at him.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)He didn't want things to ever change.
- Original language
- English
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- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.56)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 1
