Demontage

The Eighth Doctor and his companions, Sam and Fitz, find themselves on a space station located in a buffer zone between two formerly warring peoples, and where shady deals are afoot—so a Whovian spin on Deep Space Nine, essentially. I thought this was just okay. There were way too many new, undifferentiated POV characters for me to keep straight, especially combined with how rapidly Justin Richards cycled between them. This may have worked better for me if we'd stayed in any POV for the length of a single chapter. It would definitely have worked better for me if we'd got to spend more time with the Doctor—surely a key reason to read books like this?

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Demontage is one of the many Who novels of Justin Richards, who has written more of them than anyone except Terrance Dicks. It is one of the better ones as well, takin the Eighth Doctor, Sam and Fitz to a space station which thrives on gambling with an underpinning of organised crime, but also features an art exhibition where the pictures are more than they seem; ideas which have been done elsewhere, including elsewhere in Who, but are done well here with the formula successfully assembled. One of the better EDAs, and it made an interesting paired read with Alastair Rerynolds' Chasm City.