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 Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket - Justin Richards
Description: ISBN 0563486422 / Author: Justin Richards / Genre: Fiction / Starfall is a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the ... more  Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket - Justin Richards ... gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work. And that includes the TARDIS. The pioneers who used to be drawn by the hope of making a fortune from the mines can find easier picking elsewhere. But they still come - for the romance of it, or old-fashioned organic mining. Or in the hope of finding the lost treasure of Hamlek Glint - scourge of the spaceways, privateer, adventurer, bandit...Will the TARDIS ever work again? Is Glint's lost treasure waiting to be found? And does the fabled Resurrection Casket - the key to eternal life - really exist? With the help of new friends, and to the horror of new enemies, The Doctor and Rose aim to find out...This work features the Doctor and Rose as played by David Tennant and Billie Piper in the acclaimed hit series from BBC Television.Newest Review: ... steam with a crew of steam driven robots. Can they discover the mysterious casket whilst trying to escape in the ... more ... TARDIS?
‘The Resurrection Casket’ is certainly a mixed bag when it comes to quality. As a Doctor Who fan I have read many of the books and I have noticed that the more recent BBC books have moved to a more juvenile demographic. Therefore, the book forgoes any logic in the hunt for better imagination and action. I found the idea of a planet devoid of traditional electricity an interesting one. However, I think the concept of robots and spaceships powered by steam too far fetched even for me. However, what I kept in mind thro...more |
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Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket - Justin Richards: Treasure Island - in Space (again) (912 words)
by samueltyler - written on 19/10/07 (Very useful, 69 readings)
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There are certain things that make small boys smile with glee such as; ninjas, dinosaurs, superheroes and sea creatures. If I was a movie exec I could easily come up with some cynical method of exploiting this youthful enthusiasm by combining more than one group. Imagine a film about ninja fighting dinosaurs that set off to fight a superhero race of giant sea creatures. Are you trying to tell me that wouldn’t make at least $500,000,000 in box office receipts? Two areas that have been particularly popular for kids recently have been Doctor Who and Pirates. Therefore, it was no surprise to an old cynic like myself that I happened to come across a book that combined ...
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