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Post by Dominic Smith on May 23, 2006 1:23:16 GMT -5
Here you can discuss the Ninth Doctor novel 'The Stealers of Dreams'
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Post by Eryx on May 23, 2006 6:58:11 GMT -5
Poor. No, very poor. Not an interesting story by any stretch of the imagination. I found it dull, plodding and the revelation at the end was just not all that.
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 31, 2012 17:43:11 GMT -5
The Stealers of Dreams has the Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack in a world where fiction is outlawed. The anti-fiction law is so serious that this world no longer has a government due to governments having the tendency not to tell the truth all the time.
It is a very intriguing premise of this story.
While it is not unusual that many stories have seen the Doctor being separated from his companions for much of it, it definitely works here. It works here because each of them has to fend for themselves by telling the absolute truth without any embellishments but of course this task is not easy as it sounds.
Quite interesting revelations that came out of this story included who Hal Gryden actually was and what became of him at the end and the ultimate truth about Officer Waller.
Jack is being known here as the Armoured Shark Liar in reference to one of his stories that seemed unbelievable to the local populace as it was about walking armoured sharks. The Doctor Who Reference Guide speculates that this might be a reference to the shark-like Selachians who had appeared beforehand in the novels The Murder Game & The Final Sanction both of which were written by none other than Steve Lyons, the author of Stealers of Dreams.
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