Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #768449 in Books
• Published on: 1997-09-18
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 272 pages

Synopsis
Tyler's Folly: a colony full of off-world bodysnatchers. When Benny is pulled out of the ocean in the forbidden quake zone she is convinced a bizarre ruler called X and his cavemen inhabit the centre of the planet. What could have stolen her reason, or does Tyler's Folly defy the laws of physics?

Customer Reviews

The best Benny book so far
For a fair while Down seems to be a fluffy-adventure story, a satire of all those old adventure serials, with Benny journeying into the centre of the world to face Nazis, Dinosaurs, Cavemen and a Mad God-Like Computer. Had it continued in this vein alone it would have been an enjoyable adventure story, but nothing more - as it is Miles throws everything up n the air by throwing doubt on the main narrative as Benny is recounting it. How much of her story is true? Which bits is she making up, and why? Benny has long been shown to favour revising her diary entries with post-it note revisions - here Miles throws the character into such an extreme situation that she ends up trying to revise her own history. A fun adventure story that heads down into a very tense finale, with plenty of interesting concepts to chew over - if you've ever been unsure about any of these 'Doctor-less' New Adventures, this is the one to try. Essential.

Weird and Wonderful
A wonderfully bizarre book, which tells of the adventures of Bernice Summerfield from the Doctor Who New Adventure series, on a world where works of fiction are very real indeed. This is the only 'Benny' book I've read, but I'm now in no doubt that the character can continue to evolve without the aid of the Doctor. I won't spoil too much about this book for you except tell you that it feature a character from a planet of madmen (or as they like to be known, "The Truly Crazed") called !X, a pulp character from the twenty-fourth century called Mr Misnomer, a group of disillusioned Nazi U-boaters who are struggling to maintain their accents and a being called MEPHISTO (alas, not in a South Park crossover). Just get this book and find out how great it is. You'll thank me for it.