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May 02 2009

Paperback Book Club

Posted by Dorian in Doctor Who, PBBC

Lucifer Rising, 1993, Jim Mortimore and Andy Lane
A massive and somewhat convoluted and bloated hard sci-fi novel with a cast of unlikeable, expendable characters. That happens to have the Doctor and company in it. Which, to be fair, is a frequent fault with the novels from this period.

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6 Responses to “Paperback Book Club”
  1. Siskoid says:
    May 2, 2009 at 1:33 PM

    Yeah, I see where you’re coming from. I still found it to be a capable novel (hard sf/mystery) with an interesting explanation for why Time Lords look like humans. In fact isn’t the whole Faction Paradox thing predicated by it?

  2. Dorian says:
    May 2, 2009 at 5:46 PM

    Oh, man, you just HAD to mention that Faction Paradox junk…

  3. Chad says:
    May 2, 2009 at 10:01 PM

    I’d imagine lines like this saw a LOT of frustrated would-be fantasy/sci-fi novelists who shoved in that novel that worked on all through college but could never get published…

  4. John G says:
    May 3, 2009 at 8:21 PM

    I hate all books with “Rising” in the title which is why I was so upset when mine did

  5. Dorian says:
    May 3, 2009 at 11:21 PM

    Dude, they gave your political book a horrible, stupid pun for a title. That’s ample cause for rage.

  6. John G says:
    May 3, 2009 at 11:42 PM

    “Bad Moon Rising.” Not a Clearwater fan. After being unable to stop the bad title, I tried to get them to just drop the “Rising” so it would be like the 1996 Michael Paré werewolf movie, “Bad Moon.” No luck…I would have preferred “The Talons of Weng-Chiang”

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