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New Worlds
Project Valhalla
200 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 2005
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About the author
Cavan Scott
860 books442 followersis a freelance comic writer and author. He is best known for his work on a variety of spin-offs from both Doctor Who and Star Wars, as well as comics and novels for Vikings, Pacific Rim, Sherlock Holmes, and Penguins of Madagascar.
Cavan Scott, along with Justina Ireland, Claudia Gray, Daniel Jose Older, and Charles Soule are crafting a new era in the Star Wars publishing world called Star Wars: The High Republic. Cavan's contribution to the era is a comic book series released through Marvel Comics titled Star Wars: The High Republic.
Cavan Scott, along with Justina Ireland, Claudia Gray, Daniel Jose Older, and Charles Soule are crafting a new era in the Star Wars publishing world called Star Wars: The High Republic. Cavan's contribution to the era is a comic book series released through Marvel Comics titled Star Wars: The High Republic.
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August 12, 2020
While the prose was sparkling and the storyline was dark and dangerous, there were some glaring errors in military protocol that annoyed me so much. First you never refer to a sergeant as sir, they are an NCO, you refer to them by their rank, though warrant officers may be called Mr/Miss/Ms/Mrs rather than by their rank. Also private soldiers do not salute sergeants, enlisted ranks salute commissioned officer ranks, because they are saluting the authority of the sovereign. While this may seem unimportant to anyone who hasn't been in a military environment, it did detract from the storyline for me.
August 1, 2023
Cavan Scott and Mark Wright are all my time favorite writing duo, everything they wrote together or even write separately is absolutely brilliant. The Forge storyline is no doubt an amazing one that's brilliantly pieced together making the fantastic Project trilogy and beyond. Project: Valhalla is a novel I've been interested in for a long time, but because I don't tend to read spin-off novels I wasn't too sure I'd ever get around to it. But seeing it was a short one, I decided to give it a chance.
When an alien spacecraft crashes in Europe, it's up to the Forge to investigate and clean up the crash. Nimrod is back and he's soon to become a very important figure in the facility, and with him, he has found Cassie who's to be his vampiric protege. Together with Aristedes, Doctor Crumpton, and Sergeant Frith, they embark into Lapland to discover a terrifying lifeform.
Project: Valhalla is an incredible novel that proves to be a fantastic story that fits very well in between Project: Twilight and Lazarus. It really builds upon the characters we see in both stories and also introduces Aristedes who we get to meet again in Project: Destiny, before becoming a brief companion to the Seventh Doctor. It's a very atmospheric novel with some really terrifying imagery, terrific world-building, and a very unique, almost Lovecraftian-inspired threat.
Overall: A really underrated novel that barely get's any notice, but it's well worth the read! 10/10
When an alien spacecraft crashes in Europe, it's up to the Forge to investigate and clean up the crash. Nimrod is back and he's soon to become a very important figure in the facility, and with him, he has found Cassie who's to be his vampiric protege. Together with Aristedes, Doctor Crumpton, and Sergeant Frith, they embark into Lapland to discover a terrifying lifeform.
Project: Valhalla is an incredible novel that proves to be a fantastic story that fits very well in between Project: Twilight and Lazarus. It really builds upon the characters we see in both stories and also introduces Aristedes who we get to meet again in Project: Destiny, before becoming a brief companion to the Seventh Doctor. It's a very atmospheric novel with some really terrifying imagery, terrific world-building, and a very unique, almost Lovecraftian-inspired threat.
Overall: A really underrated novel that barely get's any notice, but it's well worth the read! 10/10
March 31, 2025
Yeah, this story was a disaster. It's a huge shame because Scott & Wright typically have produced some of the best Big Finish stories ever written, yet this one missed the mark on almost every count. Maybe they are just better suited to audio stories?
The biggest problem is that the book is just way too long. It goes on and on and on, which means the plot gets stretched and needlessly dragged on. It would've worked better in novella format.
The plot itself isn't even interesting. The villain is basically some gigantic orange squid thing. That's really all I could tell you about it.
It introduces Lysandra Aristedes and Dr Edith Crumpton (who will both later show up in the Big Finish main range), but beyond that, there's really no reason to read this. It will actually confuse you even more. There are little things about characters, mainly Nimrod, mentioned or shown here which are not shown or even referenced in any other Forge stories, so these are either just loose ends or outright plot holes.
As soon as I finished it, I sold it. I could not even bear to see it in my collection anymore.
The biggest problem is that the book is just way too long. It goes on and on and on, which means the plot gets stretched and needlessly dragged on. It would've worked better in novella format.
The plot itself isn't even interesting. The villain is basically some gigantic orange squid thing. That's really all I could tell you about it.
It introduces Lysandra Aristedes and Dr Edith Crumpton (who will both later show up in the Big Finish main range), but beyond that, there's really no reason to read this. It will actually confuse you even more. There are little things about characters, mainly Nimrod, mentioned or shown here which are not shown or even referenced in any other Forge stories, so these are either just loose ends or outright plot holes.
As soon as I finished it, I sold it. I could not even bear to see it in my collection anymore.
January 7, 2015
An ok read, but I definitely enjoy the audio stories more. However, Nimrod is still cool as fuck, at least.
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