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Doctor Who: Father Time
(Eighth Doctor Adventures #41)
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The Doctor is living alone in a farmhouse, with his books, experiments and cats for company. He still doesn't know who he is, but the blue Police Box outside looks vaguely familiar.Giving private tuition to a dazzlingly gifted ten-year-old named Miranda, the Doctor learns that she and her family have fled the planet Klade. There was a bloody revolution there, in which all
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Mass Market Paperback, 288 pages
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January 15th 2001
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WHAT A FANTASTIC STORY! I want so badly for Miranda to reappear in the story now!!! (edit: There is a picture of her in his wallet in Doctor Who: The Year of Intelligent Tigers apparently. But she needs to be in the show.)
Even though the pacing is a bit choppy and there's some teenage angst, it's a wonderful story overall with a few really cool new characters.
The Doctor still hasn't found his memories and you can really see the effect it's having on him. Good job, author people.
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Even though the pacing is a bit choppy and there's some teenage angst, it's a wonderful story overall with a few really cool new characters.
The Doctor still hasn't found his memories and you can really see the effect it's having on him. Good job, author people.
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http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2092950.html[return][return]Years before Georgia Moffett sprang from David Tennant's thigh (or wherever), the Eighth Doctor had an adopted daughter: Miranda Dawkins, lost scion of a imperial family from the far future, growing up in the vividly recalled 1980s (reminiscences of Thatcherism rather appropriate for the moment), the target of youthful desire from her classmates and assassination attempts from her political enemies, and trying to get to grips with both. I
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I found this book to be a bit different from most of the other Doctor Who books I've read. In this story the Doctor has lost his memory of all of his previous lives, so he's living as a 'mostly' normal human being. This slows down the story a bit. However, just because the Doctor's forgotten who he is, doesn't mean that his enemies have forgotten him.
So join the Doctor as he: Doesn't have his sonic screwdriver, keeps his TARDIS in his backyard as a lawn ornament(since he has forgotten what it is ...more
So join the Doctor as he: Doesn't have his sonic screwdriver, keeps his TARDIS in his backyard as a lawn ornament(since he has forgotten what it is ...more
Featuring Paul McGann's 8th Doctor, Father Time is one of a number of novels published by BBC Books when the series was on hiatus. It's also from halfway through an arc-plot, in which the Doctor can't remember who he is or what's happened to him. Accept that, and jump in. I'm sure there are additional references to that arc through the book, but I didn't spot them, and had no trouble enjoying the book in its own right. The story takes place over a decade, and finds the Doctor accidentally adopti
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Father Time is an Eighth Doctor adventure set during a period when the Doctor is living on Earth with no memory of his past and no access to the TARDIS. The other books in the arc must have dealt with the Doctor gaining knowledge of his alien background and longevity, because by the time we meet him in this story he's basically the Doctor we all know, memory or not, but without the specifics (Time-Lord, TARDIS, etc...). Given the premise of the novel -The Doctor becomes a father to an unusual ("
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Exciting, emotional, violent, poignant...there's a very 21st century series vibe to this classic series tale, and it's definitely one of the high watermarks of the BBC Books 8th Doctor amnesia arc. I found the ending to be a bit of a quick tie-up, compared to the build-up...but what a magnificent build-up it was. If only the first section of this arc ended here, and not with the less-than-thrilling "Escape Velocity"...but we can't have everything.
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The Doctor is now in the 1980s, he has some memories but is still not himself. He gets embroiled in an alien blood feud, and finds a child with similar biology to his own. This is a character driven piece, with the Doctor still trying to find himself, while becoming a father. There's still lots of questions about this novel, who is Miranda, and what happened to the Time Lords. A very good read.
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This was the first Doctor Who book I've read. I have a few more sitting on the bookshelf and after finishing this one, I'll be reading more.
Doctor who has a daughter? He doesn't use the TARDIS (or even know what it is)? He doesn't own a sonic screwdriver and he still saves the day?! Awesome! ...more
Doctor who has a daughter? He doesn't use the TARDIS (or even know what it is)? He doesn't own a sonic screwdriver and he still saves the day?! Awesome! ...more
Lance Parkin generally does a good job with his Doctor Who stories, and Father Time doesn't disappoint. It's a good tale, taking place over a decade, with lots of action and character development. And the Doctor gets (another!) a daughter to raise!
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Not bad, enjoyable but nothing special. The main villain kept changing his motivations for no discernible reason.
Excellent twist in the Doctor Who universe. His daughter - Jenny, we're so far ahead of you!
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This is absolutely stunning, the pinnacle of what Doctor Who writing can be. Read it.
Reading this book makes me a total nerd! But I like the sonic suitcase.
Out of all the Doctor Who novels the 8th Doctor ones are my favourites. This is one of the best.
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Lance Parkin is an author who has written professional Doctor Who fiction since the 1990s. He is one of the few authors to write for both the 1963 and 2005 version of the programme — though much of his fiction has actually been based on the 1996 iteration. Indeed, he was notably the first author to write original prose for the Eighth Doctor in The Dying Days. He was also the author chosen to deliv
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“There comes a time when the fall of snow is no longer the start of a marvellous
adventure. There comes a time when it means scraping your windscreen and
hoping your car starts. It means aching joints and throbbing sinuses and cold
hands and feet. It means taking longer to get to work and spending all day
sitting in an office where the heating isn’t on. Grey slush and cracked pipes,
cancelled trains and influenza, that’s what snow means. You’ll wake up feeling
like that, one day, and it will mean you are grown up. I hope that day doesn’t
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adventure. There comes a time when it means scraping your windscreen and
hoping your car starts. It means aching joints and throbbing sinuses and cold
hands and feet. It means taking longer to get to work and spending all day
sitting in an office where the heating isn’t on. Grey slush and cracked pipes,
cancelled trains and influenza, that’s what snow means. You’ll wake up feeling
like that, one day, and it will mean you are grown up. I hope that day doesn’t
come soon.”
