A quick and dirty novelization of the Doctor Who storyline of the same name. The story itself is very cool -- alien beings made of antimatter, Time Lord High Councils, a somewhat spunky female companion (Nyssa has no qualms about picking up a gun to defend herself), treason and betrayal, and a reintroduction of Tegan to the Doctor Who fold. However, the writing was little more than the script gussied up with some narrative and lots of superfluous adverbs: "looked despairingly", "asked urgently", etc. Still, I enjoyed the plot and managed to power through the book in about an hour, so it does not have too many marks deducted. ( )

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A rather run-of-the-mill Dicks effort. ( )