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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1359975.html It is a little odd - the old man and the girl who travels with them only decide at the end of the story that they will adopt the identities of 'the Doctor' and 'Susan', and the story combines the fairly standard base-under-siege-by-telepathic-horror story with a rather subtly done reflection on establishing and keeping identity. Worth looking out for. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
'I like to stare into the sun, eyes wide. It burns incredible colours into my head, great shifting continents of them that blot out all else. And I try to keep looking until I imagine all the pretty blue has boiled away from my eyes and they are left a bright, bloody red and quite sightless.' On a blasted world, the Doctor and Susan find themselves in the middle of a war they cannot understand. With Susan missing and the Doctor captured, who will save the people from the enemies from both outside and within? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This is heady stuff, to be sure. Unfortunately, Stephen Cole (writing under a pseudonym) never lets it breathe; he's too interested in a relentless action-horror narrative, something a bit like a John Carpenter movie on paper. When the book isn't violent, it's gruesome, and when it's gruesome, it's very very gruesome indeed. In the dream-space, characters' lips fall off in bloody fashion, maggots fall out of their orifices, and there is gore everywhere. Everywhere. Certain Doctor Who books have been criticized in the past for an adolescent use of violent imagery, but I don't think that's what's happening here; this is a stylistic choice, and it definitely keeps the reader on edge. I just don't find it especially pleasant to read.
Frayed's other issue is, frankly, the use of the Doctor and Susan. A lot of reviews have commented on the somewhat fanservice-y way in which they both receive their names in this novella, cementing it as "the earliest Doctor Who story," and bringing it into at least partial conflict with other pre-"Unearthly Child" stories that have been told now in prose, audio, and comic strip form. Personally, I don't much care about the continuity aspect; my personal mantra is that only televised Doctor Who is really worth treating as "the law," and even that's so convoluted it helps if you look at it with a very broad and liberal view indeed. What bothers me more is this proliferation of prequel stories. I never really needed to know precisely why the Doctor and Susan left Gallifrey; how they stole a TARDIS; where their names came from. It's more fun to think about those things and let them remain unanswered. Kim Newman's Time and Relative, which began the Telos range, gets around the issue neatly by telling us a story that happens just before "An Unearthly Child," and while Newman can't resist one or two little hints, he pretty much refrains from telling us the big secrets. That's great - it allows the focus to be on Susan and her grandfather's relationship, how they are becoming more involved with Earth culture, and what gets us to the specific boiling point we see in the first televised episode. Frayed just seems to play the prequel card for the sake of doing it, and worse, the Doctor and Susan aren't even that integral to the story. Mostly, they're there so other characters can babble exposition at them - hardly the most dynamic use of the characters.
Reading the Telos novellas has been interesting. They never fail to take chances, which is good, but that means that some of them are very, very good and some are just appalling. This one isn't badly written, but I found it completely unenjoyable, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone but a fairly dyed-in-the-wool horror fan. ( )