Fai clic su di un'immagine per andare a Google Ricerca Libri.
Sto caricando le informazioni... Ten Little Aliensdi Stephen Cole
Penguin Random House (248) Sto caricando le informazioni...
Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I did like the story line of this book and loved the face that throughout the majority of this book I could picture it in my mind. The part I didn’t enjoy of this book was when it split off into the different view points and I had to go back and forth between the characters meaning I had to go back and forth in the book. This totally confused me. Number 54 of 76 of the Past Doctor Adventures published in June 2002. A closed setting of an asteriod, ten soldiers on a mission, an agatha christie style title (and chapter headings) - were each going to be picked off one by one 'until there were none'? That's how it should have unfolded. Instead there was hardly any Christie-esq feel about the book at all. A claustrophobic setting there may have been but it was an opportunity lost. Set between the TV adventures The Smugglers and The Tenth Planet it is a rare outing for the First Doctor with Ben & Polly but frankly the companions needn't have been in it at all. A group of elite soldiers find a group of terrorists in a hollowed out asteriod. Weird things happen in the plot. At one stage, bizarrely at one point the story goes to a 'choose your own adventure' style. A think the author had too many ideas that he tried to come across and it ends up not being anything really. A missed opportunity. 1 The Devil Goblins from Neptune 2 The Murder Game 3 The Ultimate Treasure 4 Business Unusual 5 Illegal Alien 6 The Roundheads 7 The Face of the Enemy 8 Eye of Heaven 9 The Witch Hunters 10 The Hollow Men 11 Catastrophea 12 Mission: Impractical 13 Zeta Major 14 Dreams of Empire 15 Last Man Running 16 Matrix 17 The Infinity Doctors 18 Salvation 19 The Wages of Sin 20 Deep Blue 21 Players 22 Millennium Shock 23 Storm Harvest 24 The Final Sanction 25 City at World's End 26 Divided Loyalties 27 Corpse Marker 28 Last of the Gaderene 29 Tomb of Valdemar 30 Verdigris 31 Grave Matter 32 Heart of TARDIS 33 Prime Time 34 Imperial Moon 35 Festival of Death 36 Independence Day 37 The King of Terror 38 The Quantum Archangel 39 Bunker Soldiers 40 Rags 41 The Shadow in the Glass 42 Asylum 43 Superior Beings 44 Byzantium! 45 Bullet Time 46 Psi-ence Fiction 47 Dying in the Sun 48 Instruments of Darkness 49 Relative Dementias 50 Drift 51 Palace of the Red Sun 52 Amorality Tale 53 Warmonger 54 Ten Little Aliens 55 Combat Rock 56 The Suns of Caresh 57 Heritage 58 Fear of the Dark 59 Blue Box 60 Loving the Alien 61 The Colony of Lies 62 Wolfsbane 63 Deadly Reunion 64 Scream of the Shalka 65 Empire of Death 66 The Eleventh Tiger 67 Synthespians™ 68 The Algebra of Ice 69 The Indestructible Man 70 Match of the Day 71 Island of Death 72 Spiral Scratch 73 Fear Itself 74 World Game 75 The Time Travellers 76 Atom Bomb Blues Stephen Cole's Ten Little Aliens is disappointing, not so much because of what it is but because of what it is not. That's a little bit unfair, of course, but you have to understand what the novel has been set up as - admittedly, more than 10 years after its original publication. Ten Little Aliens was selected as the entry for William Hartnell's Doctor in BBC Books' set of 50th anniversary reprints, with new covers, new introductions by the authors, and a sort of implication that these are "the best of the best" of Doctor Who in novel form. That last part is an assumption, but it's easy to make, and for many readers, Ten Little Aliens will be the first they read (seeing as Hartnell is the first Doctor of eleven). I was confused by the choice when it was announced. Ten Little Aliens as published in 2002, a little after I gave up my teenage obsession with Doctor Who fiction. I really didn't have an opinion one way or another. Throughout the '90s, however, there were a number of highly acclaimed novels starring William Hartnell's Doctor, both for the Virgin "Missing Adventures" line and later for the BBC. Sticking with the BBC's own line (since all 11 of these reprints are of earlier BBC publications), the obvious choice would have been Steve Lyons' The Witch Hunters, an incredibly popular book featuring the original TARDIS crew in the historical context of Salem, Massachusetts. Lyons' follow-up, Salvation, would have also been a suitable choice, as would Simon Guerrier's The Time Travellers, both of them set in the 1960s. There are other choices, too, but a title emphasizing either a purely historical adventure (which is almost entirely exclusive to Hartnell's era) or the "swinging 60s" (it's meant to be a 50th anniversary adventure, after all) would have made sense. Right? Choosing Ten Little Aliens - which features the first Doctor alongside Ben and Polly, who are barely seen together at the tail end of his era - just feels like a slightly odd move. So, too, is the decision to go with a heavy sci-fi/action novel, just because there have been so many throughout the range (with more to come just in this set of reprints). To anyone with a passing familiarity with original Doctor Who fiction, a novel that pays homage to either Starship Troopers or Aliens is not exactly an original contemplation. And then there's the much-cited Agatha Christie tribute. It's in the title, it's in the chapter headings...and that's pretty much it. Far from influencing the novel's direction, it feels mostly like a sort of odd publicity gimmick. Taking out the Christie references would not in any way change the fabric of this story. So with all of that...stuff...out of the way, what's left? Honestly, it's not a bad book. It's just not terribly special. It's the least likely Doctor (frail, end-of-his-life first Doctor) in the midst of a bunch of space marines, and I'll give Cole this: his Doctor, either in dialogue or action, never feels less than authentic. Ben and Polly both get some superior material, too, which is commendable because so many of their TV adventures are lost; they're easy to "forget," but Cole has captured them well. As for the other characters? They are primarily faceless, hardened marines, at least until about the halfway point of the novel, when a few of them have died and the others can be defined a little more clearly. The book, in general, is like that; if you can make it through the first half or so, the character confusion starts to clear up and it actually becomes entertaining. Grisly, but entertaining. And, of course, the longer it goes on, the more pivotal of a role the Doctor plays, which I always find enjoyable (especially when he is such a contrast to the rest of the cast). I can't shake the feeling that this title might have been selected for reprinting because of one - or both - of two odd points. The first is that there are monsters which take the form of (wait for it) stone angels. No, they're not the famed Weeping Angels, but they are described similarly enough that I found myself wondering if a commissioning editor thought, "New fans will think that's what they are and be very pleased." It's a possibility, anyway. The other point is a definite gimmick, which was notable even in 2002: a large chunk toward the end of the book, roughly fifty pages' worth, is told as a Choose Your Own Adventure-style narrative, requiring you to flip back and forth to follow different viewpoints. I know several readers found it irritating - I thought it was rather inventive, but I agree with them that, like the Christie titles, it does seem massively inconsequential to the overall story. And that's where I got to with Ten Little Aliens, in general - it wasn't awful, and I didn't regret the read. It's just that I know of a good half dozen first Doctor titles that would have been a lot more special for a celebratory 50th anniversary line, and I'm still a little bemused that this one was chosen. Set during the final period of the First Doctor's incarnation and he's travelling with Ben and Polly. The trio find themselves on an asteroid that was hiding a deadly secret. When the TARDIS materialises they found themselves in a contol room containing a gruesome tableau of ten aliens dying of various deadly wounds and just as the party is about to get away, they are blocked when a forcefield suddenly pops up round it. The Doctor and Ben find themselves facing the nervous trainees of a Terran training mission as Polly disappears and things start getting weird as the aliens in the tableau also start disappearing. But how could they be getting around with such deadly wounds? The BBC had these previous incarnations of the Doctor down fairly pat by this stage and this takes the story forward as this incarnation travels towards his end. There are also some nice touches as the Terran Empire is mentioned. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"Deep in the heart of a hollowed-out moon the First Doctor finds a chilling secret: ten alien corpses, frozen in time at the moment of their death. They are the empire's most wanted terrorists, and their discovery could end a war devastating the galaxy. But is the same force that killed them still lurking in the dark? And what are its plans for the people of Earth? An adventure featuring the First Doctor as played by William Hartnell and his companions Ben and Polly"--Publisher's website. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
Discussioni correntiNessunoCopertine popolari
Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813Literature English (North America) American fictionClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
Sei tu?Diventa un autore di LibraryThing. |
This story is told in a particularly interesting way: toward the end of the book, the narration moves from linear to a “choose your own adventure” sort of format where you are given instructions to move around the storyline and see things from different perspectives. This must have taken a LOT of work to set up properly, and part of me thinks I should read this again and try to read that last bit in a different order to see if there are any changes. I did find some of the members of the training group a bit interchangeable, although part of that could have been due to my starting this in early December 2021 and putting it down for over a month before finally finishing it.
And as you may have guessed from the title, the plot of this book riffs somewhat on Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, and each chapter is titled for a Christie novel. So that gets a few extra points as well. ( )