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39th out of 244 books
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102 voters
Doctor Who: The Monsters Inside (Doctor Who: New Series Adventures #2)
by
Stephen Cole
The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Rose to a destination in deep space - Justicia, a prison camp stretched over seven planets, where Earth colonies deal with their criminals. While Rose finds herself locked up in a teenage borstal, the Doctor is trapped in a scientific labour camp. Each is determined to find the other, and soon both Rose and the Doctor are risking life and li...more
Hardcover, 253 pages
Published
May 19th 2005
by BBC Books
(first published 2005)
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Perfect. If you love the show how could you not enjoy this book! Awesome plot, great characters, the Doctor's character is written prefectly! I don't have one bad thing to say about this book, I thought it was truly excellent! I couldn't put it down!
SPOILERS!
I loved everything about the prison aspect and the Slitheen are pretty much my favorite aliens!
While some people might not like that Rose and the Doctor are apart for most of the book, I loved it since I'm a huge Rose fan and love to see her...more
SPOILERS!
I loved everything about the prison aspect and the Slitheen are pretty much my favorite aliens!
While some people might not like that Rose and the Doctor are apart for most of the book, I loved it since I'm a huge Rose fan and love to see her...more
Much better than the first one I read, which was The Winner Takes All. It seems to take place early in the series. The Ninth Doctor and Rose find themselves taken captive on a deep-space prison colony. Justicia is a prison camp, 500 years into Earth's future, spread over seven planets. Separated from each other, Rose finds herself in a teenage prison and the Doctor finds himself in a sort of scientific labor camp. As they try and find each other, they discover and old enemy: the Slitheen, as wel...more
Aug 29, 2012
Hiram Lester
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
doctor-who-new-series-adventures
This the second novel in the Doctor Who New Series Adventures and features the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler, as portrayed on TV by Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper. It also features a second encounter with the Slitheen, as well as another family from Raxicoricofallapatorius, the Blathereen. This book was also the first story featuring Rose, televised or otherwise, to not take place on Earth: the first line of the book is "Wherever it was, it wasn't Earth." and the acknowledgements thank Rus...more
I'll start of by saying I'm a huge Doctor Who fan. I read the first book about a year ago and loved it but honestly this one was not the best. Don't get me wrong its not bad (Nothing with the Doctor can be bad. My main problem with this book was very early on it splits up the Doctor and Rose then it jumps between the two of them with about 70% Rose and 30% Doctor. There where the problems are Rose is a fantastic character but she needs the doctor with her to really shine and lets be honest we al...more
Second of the New Series novels. The Doctor and Rose find themselves on a prison planet in the Justica system (notably the first alien planet Rose travels too with the Doctor), several planets where the Earth colonies send their criminals. Rose and the Doctor are separated and while trying to get back to each other uncover a sinister plot that will reek havoc on the Universe if it isn't stopped.
I think Cole really captured the Doctor's personality as played by Christopher Eccleston. The story dr...more
I think Cole really captured the Doctor's personality as played by Christopher Eccleston. The story dr...more
"The Monsters Inside" is an intriguing story about a harsh prison which Rose and the Doctor inadvertently trespass on. They are separated and imprisoned, and have to find each other again, while fighting a menace which aims to wreak interstellar havoc.
It is easy to read, quite gripping, and kept my attention throughout. There are some engaging secondary characters, which have a degree of depth and development. However, there are some areas of character-related plot which felt a little unfinished...more
It is easy to read, quite gripping, and kept my attention throughout. There are some engaging secondary characters, which have a degree of depth and development. However, there are some areas of character-related plot which felt a little unfinished...more
It’s a fun read in the style of the show. I feel all the books for the New Doctor Who series I’ve read are aimed at a younger audience then say the 7th or 8th Doctor’s novels and this has the agreeable side effect that these books stick to entertaining without trying to be overly clever or complicated science fiction. (Not that I don’t love novels like that, too.)
The story setting was a bit cliche but well done anyway. The Doctor and Rose land on a prison planet - one planet in a whole system of...more
The story setting was a bit cliche but well done anyway. The Doctor and Rose land on a prison planet - one planet in a whole system of...more
This wasn’t very good at all. In fact it was downright pedestrian. The story was unoriginal and lacked excitement and separated Rose and the Doctor from the very start which immediately removes one of the prime reasons for reading a Doctor Who novel in the first place. If i decide to read any more of these, i shall dispense with my initial plan to read them in order from beginning to end and simply cherry pick the best of them according to the ratings and reviews they get from around the intenet...more
When Rose travels to her first alien planet she hopes it will be a peaceful and entertaining time with the Doctor. But we all know a trip with the Doctor will be entertaining but never peaceful. The TARDIS brings Rose and the Doctor to Justicia- a prison camp stretched over six planets where criminals from Earth serve their prison sentence. However as soon as they arrive Rose is taken to a borstal and the Doctor is trapped in a scientific labour camp. All Rose and the Doctor want is to be reunit...more
These Doctor Who novels are fast becoming a guilty pleasure. Monsters Inside is better than Doctor Who: The Clockwise Man, but still has its hangups. This novel is certainly better at capturing the personality of the characters and keeping consistent with how they act and speak in the show. The story is well put together and gets wrapped up nice and tight at the end. I'm not a fan of the Slitheen, so I didn't care much for having them as the antagonists. They aren't that interesting on the show...more
I do have to say that I just didn't enjoy this one as well as the first Doctor Who novel I read, The Clockwise Man. But I don't think it was the writing, it was just the fact that for 90% of the story Rose and the Doctor aren't together. I just didn't enjoy that. I did enjoy the aliens though. They were all very interesting, and of course it was nice to see what the Slitheens were up to. I loved the DW tv episodes with them and to read about them was great. I felt the characterizations of the Do...more
Aug 09, 2010
Lenihan
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Any Doctor Who fan
Shelves:
doctor-who,
english
My very first Doctor Who book, one of the five I've bought while I was in London. I started on it while I was in the tube on my way back to the hotel and boy it was a good read.
I admit that I started on this book with some doubts. The back cover gave away some hints of the Rose and Doctor being separated throughout most of the book and old enemies showing up as well, which didn't appeal to me. Yes, I still bought it and read it as the first book and... it was amazing. The characters were perfect...more
I admit that I started on this book with some doubts. The back cover gave away some hints of the Rose and Doctor being separated throughout most of the book and old enemies showing up as well, which didn't appeal to me. Yes, I still bought it and read it as the first book and... it was amazing. The characters were perfect...more
Second of the tie-ins published for the new series. Adequate but nothing special adventure for Nine and Rose, which I'd have probably enjoyed rather more had I read it on initial publication rather than after the monsters of the week had appeared several more times on tv. The Doctor and Rose are arrested and separated within a few minutes of landing on an alien planet -- which turns out to be part of a solar system devoted to a privatised prison system, where landing without authorisation is its...more
Je l'avoue, je partais avec l'idée que celui-là, ça serait pas mon préféré. Voire que ça serait un défi d'aller jusqu'au bout. C'est à dire que, les Slitheen quoi. Encore. Et encore.
Et puis finalement...chouette les Slitheen!!
Autant pour the Clockwise Man, le démarrage était un peu longuet, autant pour celui-là, à la 3e page on est déjà en plein dedans: nos 2 moucherons de l'espace s'en vont pour le tout premier voyage de dame Rose sur une autre planète... sur laquelle ils se font enlever, aprè...more
Et puis finalement...chouette les Slitheen!!
Autant pour the Clockwise Man, le démarrage était un peu longuet, autant pour celui-là, à la 3e page on est déjà en plein dedans: nos 2 moucherons de l'espace s'en vont pour le tout premier voyage de dame Rose sur une autre planète... sur laquelle ils se font enlever, aprè...more
Dec 03, 2012
Jimmy
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommended to Jimmy by:
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Shelves:
doctor-who-the-9th-doctor,
ebook
I liked this book. After watching the TV series, the Slitheen have become one of my favorite Doctor Who aliens. They are both hilarious and deadly at the same time.
In 2501, they are farting their way through the Justicia system of prison planets. And it’s obvious that they are doing it for profit, but the question is what are they doing and how. The Doctor and Rose are separated and not just in different jail cells, but on different planets. The Doctor, forced to work with other aliens held at...more
In 2501, they are farting their way through the Justicia system of prison planets. And it’s obvious that they are doing it for profit, but the question is what are they doing and how. The Doctor and Rose are separated and not just in different jail cells, but on different planets. The Doctor, forced to work with other aliens held at...more
Jan 26, 2012
Megan
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Doctor Who fans. Mostly 9th Doctor and Rose fans
Shelves:
read-in-2011,
donated
Stephen Cole decides to take Rose for her first trip to an 'alien' planet (Remember series 1 of Doctor Who? Did Rose ever go off Earth... Nope). This trip of course winds Rose and the Doctor up in prison. But they are not held in prison together! Rose is put in juvi and the Doctor is held in a science unit where he uses his mind for his time. Both try to find each other from their respective cells while battling the prison from the inside.
The Monster of the Week in this novel is a monster that w...more
The Monster of the Week in this novel is a monster that w...more
The Doctor and Rose 'trespass' on a human prison planet, and as punishment they get locked up themselves. Rose is in Juvie pretty much, and The Doctor is banged up in a prison for aliens, where he has to bunk up with two Slitheen, and made to work on research and development (futuristic prison labour!).
This was even a bit better than the last doctor who I read - Doctor Who: The Clockwise Man, although, I don't think think I can push it up to 5 stars, because it's a tv-tie-in, not a literary mast...more
This was even a bit better than the last doctor who I read - Doctor Who: The Clockwise Man, although, I don't think think I can push it up to 5 stars, because it's a tv-tie-in, not a literary mast...more
There were some interesting ideas in here, but I feel the execution was ultimately disappointing. And the story was not emotionally satisfying at all, and there was really not anything worth writing home about re character development of anyone. So on all counts... I've read better fan fiction.
The story is set in a prison colony system, and the story sort of hints at some intriguing explorations of social justice and prisons, but the kind of lost sight of that. There was also some cool scientif...more
The story is set in a prison colony system, and the story sort of hints at some intriguing explorations of social justice and prisons, but the kind of lost sight of that. There was also some cool scientif...more
This book was not bad, actually! I'm just having Ninth Doctor withdrawals and this was just what I needed. Beats fanfiction for sure (none of that shipping crap)! 3/4 of the book Rose and the Doctor are actually separated from each other, so it's nice to see them working independently with a large cast of secondary characters. And overall it's very consistent with the show. Self-righteous as ever, questioning the ethics of the prison-industrial complex.
Fun, amusing and Rose is as amazing as ever...more
Fun, amusing and Rose is as amazing as ever...more
The author does a good job of capturing the Doctor and Rose: They actually seem like Nine and Rose (I can think of only one moment that seemed out of character). The story is a good romp, and the secondary characters are convincing and kind of funny. But I am reminded why I don't normally read these books: zero character development. How can there be? The show's creators need all character development to happen on-screen, or it won't make sense to viewers.
Sadly, after reading a couple of really good DW novels, I found this one lacking.
First of all I have to admit that the alien race which takes up a major role in this novel annoyed me on the show already, so I might have been a bit biased from the start.
But I think it was mostly the fact that there was a lot of techno-babble and too much action (instead of character development/time for interesting characters/a moral/etc.) for my taste. The book had its moments, but at the end I found myself more...more
First of all I have to admit that the alien race which takes up a major role in this novel annoyed me on the show already, so I might have been a bit biased from the start.
But I think it was mostly the fact that there was a lot of techno-babble and too much action (instead of character development/time for interesting characters/a moral/etc.) for my taste. The book had its moments, but at the end I found myself more...more
A tense, claustrophobic book that almost immediately separates The Doctor and Rose into elements in which they both get to shine - The Doctor in an ultra-scientific lab working on a complex gravity problem, and Rose to a tight and scary high-security prison. The story lives up to its title somewhat literally, but also metaphorically, showing how situations can dictate the ways in which we all turn out in more ways than one.
Oct 21, 2007
Nicholas Whyte
added it
http://nhw.livejournal.com/761346.html[return][return]This isn't bad. I think Cole catches the Ninth Doctor/Rose banter very well. The monsters of the title are the Slitheen, from "The Aliens of London" and "World War Three" (the internal chronology suggests that this is set before "Boom Town"); their back-story as a species is filled out rather nicely, with some uncertainty as to whether they are allies or enemies. The last word of the title refers not to complex explorations of Inner Space, bu...more
A decent little read that finds the Doctor taking Rose to her first alien planet. Unfortunately, this gets them locked up in the local prison system and now they have to get out before an old enemy takes them out for good. Not my favorite monster of the Doctor's but one that is put to good use in the setting and I love reading more of Christopher Eccleston's Doctor and his adventures. A pleasant way to pass a warm summer evening.
I read this book a very long time ago and it was my first in the doctor who book series. This book was an outstanding first book to a complete collection. It involved great cliffhangers and many creatures that have been seen on the BBC program. The detail and creativity is beyond intelligence it is genius. What a great start to a collection.
This was a fast read and over all tied in well with the Dr Who series. I did however only give this book three stars because the author did so well keeping Nine in character. He was so spot on that you could almost hear Eccleston as you read.
I found the plot a bit boring but then I've never been a big fan of the Slitheens. So if you liked the Slitheens in the series you'll enjoy this book.
I found the plot a bit boring but then I've never been a big fan of the Slitheens. So if you liked the Slitheens in the series you'll enjoy this book.
This book focuses on Slitheens/creatures who look just like them, but are from a different family. Let's just say I don't like the Slitheen and you'll understand why I and this book didn't get along swimmingly. It was nice enough and an easy read, but still rather meh. Also, the Dutch translation for this one really bothered me.. but hey, only 2 Doctor Who books have been published in the Netherlands, so I figured I should support them. But this level of translation makes me glad no more of thes...more
The Doctor takes Rose to her first planet. Only problem is, that its a prison planet. They get seperated and Slitheen are involved. Theres some really good chase scenes in this, and the 9th Doctor is very well portrayed. It's a bit of fun, and a very quick read.
This Dr. Who adventure was not as good as some of the others. I think I had a hard time "seeing" and "hearing" Christopher Eccleston's Doctor in the Cole's dialogue.
Overall, the plot was good - with several interesting twists that I did not expect. The plot twists weren't "beyond the pale", though.
Overall, the plot was good - with several interesting twists that I did not expect. The plot twists weren't "beyond the pale", though.
It was funny to read a book about the Slitheen, but the action struck me as so hectic and random. The Doctor Who novel I'm currently reading is so much more entertaining, but I'll save further comments for a proper review when I'm done.
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See also: Steve Cole.
Stephen Cole (born 1971) is an English author of children's books and science fiction. He was also in charge of BBC Worldwide's merchandising of the BBC Television series Doctor Who between 1997 and 1999: this was a role which found him deciding on which stories should be released on video, commissioning and editing a range of fiction and non-fiction titles, producing audioboo...more
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Stephen Cole (born 1971) is an English author of children's books and science fiction. He was also in charge of BBC Worldwide's merchandising of the BBC Television series Doctor Who between 1997 and 1999: this was a role which found him deciding on which stories should be released on video, commissioning and editing a range of fiction and non-fiction titles, producing audioboo...more
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