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Bezig met laden... Genocidedoor Paul Leonard
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. http://nhw.livejournal.com/525259.html The central plot is a set of time paradoxes - will humanity survive, or will we be displaced by humane, environmentally conscious equine quadrupeds who are very reminiscent of Swift's Houyhnhnms? The Doctor has to choose one way or the other, and either way an entire race may be destroyed, hence the genocide of the title. I felt there were one or two problems with the internal chronology of the book which could not be smoothed over by time-travel, and too many cases of a) characters promising not to move from a safe location, then immediately doing so and b) "I'm going to kill you now!" "No you're not." "Okay, I won't kill you now but I might kill you later!" And one plot twist was foreshadowed many years ago by Douglas Adams, but I thought Paul Leonard invested it with a certain dignity (leaving a message in the basalt, surely inspired by the towel in the prehistoric volcano). Overall it was just about worth the £2 I paid for it. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Ten years after leaving UNIT, Jo Grant is asked to join a project to travel back in time and observe the evolution of the human race. The project goes wrong, and the Doctor has to find a way to save the human race from extinction. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Unsurprisingly, some fans at the time (a certain subset) didn't much appreciate this Doctor and certainly didn't appreciate his companion, Sam. I think in both cases they're wrong - or at least looking at the issue from a rather different perspective to me. Sylvester McCoy's Doctor is one of my favourites but it's refreshing to have this figure who is less sure of himself, more openly emotive, and almost on par with his companion in terms of their relationship. And the decision to tell much of the story from Sam's point-of-view prefigures what the television series would do a decade later; she's flawed, still figuring herself out, and not always able to trust the Doctor, and it makes this a jolly good read.
It's not a great book, to be clear. Like many of them it feels like an attempt to turn a TV script into a novel, although that's less overt than in some recent stories. And I'm not sure how I feel about a certain character's actions in the final act. But overall, a good addition to the drama. ( )