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Post by matthewsee on Dec 23, 2014 20:33:36 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 2, 2015 21:08:51 GMT -5
The Death Pit:
The Death Pit is the first short story in this preview.
Featuring the Fourth Doctor and written by A.L. Kennedy.
The Death Pit takes place sometime after The Deadly Assassin with the Fourth Doctor on his own without a companion.
Pretty good setting at a golf spa hotel and receptionist Bryony Mailer makes for a good stand-in companion and very atmospheric of it taking place in 1978.
Cute that the main enemy is called David Agnew which was also the pseudonym used for the Fourth Doctor TV stories Invasion of Time & City of Death.
Climatic resolution and fun ending to the story.
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Post by matthewsee on May 1, 2015 21:38:30 GMT -5
Into The Nowhere:
Into The Nowhere is the second short story in this preview.
Featuring the Eleventh Doctor and written by Jenny Colgan.
I just discovered that it took place between The Day of the Doctor & the Eleventh Doctor swansong The Time of the Doctor.
Reading this story myself I did not get the sense this adventure took place just as the Eleventh Doctor is soon coming to his end.
It is not bad mystery that the Doctor and Clara investigates here including why Etienne Boyce was doing on the planet that they had visited.
Some bizarre sequences took place here but the ending does not feel quite satisfying.
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 21, 2018 6:46:12 GMT -5
A Long Way Down:
A Long Way Down is a short story by Jenny T. Colgan as part of the Time Trips collection.
In the omnibus book, A Long Way Down is not in the book itself but on the sleeve jacket.
It was sure fun reading this story featuring the Twelfth Doctor and Clara this way.
Mostly with Clara it is enthralling story of dealing the situation at hand in the TARDIS.
This is rather akin to the mini-episode Clara and The TARDIS which also has just Clara in the TARDIS
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 26, 2019 6:05:51 GMT -5
Salt of the Earth:
Salt of the Earth is a short story by Trudi Canavan as part of the Time Trips collection.
Featuring the Third Doctor and Jo.
Overall not a bad story being set in Australia although kind of confusing in certain places.
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Post by matthewsee on Aug 9, 2019 5:49:33 GMT -5
The Anti-Hero:
The Anti-Hero is a short story by Stella Duffy In the Time Trips collection.
Featuring the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe.
This is set at at the ancient Museum of Alexandria.
Story mainly works for Zoe, not so much for the Doctor and Jamie and not bad handling of Hero and the Muses.
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