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Bad Therapy (Virgin New Adventures #57)

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The Doctor and Chris arrive in 1950's Soho where a gang war is raging. What secrets are hidden in the abandoned mental hospital and why are people with no past being ritually murdered? The Doctor has to confront old friends to find out.

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Dec 27, 2011 David Sarkies rated it 3 of 5 stars

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This is one of many books in the 'New Doctor Who' series which was publish by Virgin Publishing between the years 1991 and 1997. The idea was that the books continued the story of Doctor Who from the final episode of the television series. Basically, the television series have pretty much entered a hole from which it wasn't to recover until about fifteen years later, and these books were written to give Doctor Who fans their monthly dose of Doctor Who. Now, I like Doctor Who, but I found the ch...more This is one of many books in the 'New Doctor Who' series which was publish by Virgin Publishing between the years 1991 and 1997. The idea was that the books continued the story of Doctor Who from the final episode of the television series. Basically, the television series have pretty much entered a hole from which it wasn't to recover until about fifteen years later, and these books were written to give Doctor Who fans their monthly dose of Doctor Who. Now, I like Doctor Who, but I found the challenge of reading each of these books, and in order to, along with all the other rubbish that I read, so I ended up picking and chosing the ones that I read.
Now, books are a lot for flexible than television shows in that they are not constrained by budgets and limitations of technology. The author (remembering that they do have time constraints) is free to develop the story however they see fit. Now, the original Doctor Who's were hardly children's shows, though as the series developed, it began to drift that way a little. However, it is clear that these books are targeted at the young adult market. This, once again, is not surprising as many of the young adults reading these books grew up with Doctor Who.
This book is set in the 1950s and, as can be expected, involves aliens and a mystery. The Doctor stumbles across a murder, but this is no ordinary murder, but somebody who turns out to have little, in fact nothing, of a background. Not only that, but there is a driverless black cab haunting the streets of London. After a bit of digging around, the Doctor works out who the aliens are, though they claim to be refugees.
Once again, as can be expected with Doctor Who, all of the elements tie up together, and the mystery surrounding the murders is revealed. In a way I found it quite clever in that the victims were actually artificial humans with emphatic abilities to read the emotions and desires of their 'patients' (they were used in therapy) and morph into what those desires reveal. However, as can be expected, something goes wrong, and the creatures are being hunted down one by one. As is typical with the Doctor, all intelligent life is sacred, and despite them being a failed experiment, they still deserve to live.
I guess in a way this book tries to address the ideas of discrimination and the morality of killing an intelligent being if it has ceased to be of use to you. However, while we are not yet at the stage were we can create life (beyond the natural ways, obviously) it is still something to mull over. However, we still must remember that this is a pub book that has been churned out by a publisher to satisfy a niche market. It was never meant to be a work of literature. (less)

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