Conundrum, 1994, Steve Lyons
One of the more surreal Doctor Who novels (but not actually the most surreal one), Conundrum is a hard-book to easily summarize. The TARDIS crew find themselves in the middle of a murder mystery in a quaint English village…beset by vampires…with a rampaging super-villain on the loose. Because it seems the whoever has been changing the past has managed to recreate the Land of Fiction, and now the Doctor, Ace and Benny are trapped in a meta-fictional nightmare created by, well, a rather spot-on parody of an angry young nerd who confuses death and violence with “maturity” and “realism.”
It’s utterly brilliant stuff.
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Doctor Who and the Flex of Mentallo? I’m there.
I remember really liking this one. Will have to dig it up sometime.
I’m going to have to figure out how to get hold of some of these DW books you’ve been posting. They sound fascinating.
Superboy-Prime is in it?
Superboy-Prime is in it?
No, Mark has the gist of it.
Huh…. Dr. Cyber appears to feature prominently in it.
I’ve been waiting for one of the books I bought as a kid to show up ever since you started going through the New Adventures. Vague memories are being stirred deep in my brain.