Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket
Starfall - a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work. The pioneers who used to be drawn by the hope of making a fortune from the mines can find easier picking elsewhere. But they still come - for the romance of it, or...
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Starfall - a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work. The pioneers who used to be drawn by the hope of making a fortune from the mines can find easier picking elsewhere. But they still come - for the romance of it, or old-fashioned organic mining. Or in the hope of finding the lost treasure of Hamlek Glint - scourge of the spaceways, privateer, adventurer and bandit. Will the TARDIS ever work again? Is Glint's lost treasure waiting to be found? And does the fabled Resurrection Casket - the key to eternal life - really exist? With the help of new friends, and to the horror of new enemies, The Doctor and Rose aim to find out...
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780563486428 (0563486422)
Publish date: April 13th 2006
Publisher: BBC Books
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Series: Doctor Who: New Series Adventures (#9)
This was definitely not my favorite in the Doctor Who: New Series Adventures. Perhaps it was the fact that it was abridged that caused the characters to feel one dimensional, but it made for a fairly boring listen. The climax was also lacking in excitement and the resolution seemed a bit trite.
Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket [Abridged] by Justin Richards (Audiobook) My rating: 3 of 5 stars I've listened to the audiobook version. The story is sort of interesting. Now the audiobook is abridged, so maybe it's better if I read the whole book, but I had some problems with it. On the ...
This is my third Ten Doctor book and the last of the first Ten series that came out last spring. I enjoyed this one. It's full of twists and turns, it has an interesting space pirate subplot and some droids that are frakking mad. We get manic Doctor in this one. The author "got" the tone of Tennant'...