Doctor Who:
The Nameless City
By Michael Scott
The TARDIS is broken and
The Doctor has sent Jamie out to get some material to help with repairs. While out he comes upon a stranger who is
being robbed in an alley and promptly goes to his aid and fends off the mugger. In gratitude the stranger gives Jamie a book
as a reward. Jamie returns to the TARDIS
and gives the book to The Doctor. The
book turns out to be evil and it turns out to be the Necronomicon which is an
old book that has power. Lots of power
as it was able to pilot the TARDIS to the edge of universe where the Nameless
City resides. There resides The Archons
who is older than time themselves and what they want is the TARDIS so they can
take over the universe.
This is the second eBook
released to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who. This time we are treated to a Second Doctor
adventure and if I had to guess takes place between Fury From the Deep and The
Wheel in Space. For the most part I
enjoyed the story even though it didn’t feel like a Second Doctor story. For the most part it felt more like a story
for one of the later Doctors as it just didn’t have the feel. Sure the author used his catch phrases and
had Jamie as a companion but it just didn’t grab that era. It felt like it could have been better if it
was for another Doctor.
With that said I do have a
pretty big problem with it. For one the
messing with the origins of the TARDIS and the Time Lords just did not set well
with me. In the first book we had the
Doctor get a new hand by cloning it and having it surgically put on his
arm. Now in The Nameless City we find
out that the Archons actually invented the TARDIS by growing them from seeds
and that the Time Lords stole that technology and knowledge from them. WHAT!!! OK I know they are doing something
special by having prominent children’s authors coming on board and writing a
short story for Doctor Who to help celebrate the 50th Anniversary
but letting them rewrite the mythos of Doctor Who is just wrong.
I know this is just a book
and probably not canon but could they at least stay true to the history of the
show. Even if you think it’s a good idea
to explore this tthen that fine but doing it in a short story is just wrong as
you should be able to explain more than what you can do in a short. I just didn’t like what they did in this
story and felt it should not have been mentioned. Plus it made the overall story not as
enjoyable as it was to that point. Even
with the problems I had with it the story was enjoyable but then that happened
and I was so put off. Hopefully the
other stories in the series will try and stay true to Doctor Who and be
enjoyable to read.
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