Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #669391 in Books
• Published on: 1998-04-06
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Synopsis
The Tardis lands in a village of Evil; a scout craft sent by an alien race in the time of the Civil War, to assess the Earth for conquest. Hidden beneath the ground, the deadly intelligence that animates it begins to stir, tainting the lives of all those in the village.

Customer Reviews

love this one - thrilling
This is one of my top-favourite DR WHO novels, great scifi, thrilling to the end, nice 3-D characters. and its got ACE!!!!

this was really a "read as fast as i could to find out how it ends' book for me.

Very entertaining 7th doctor novel
This is a really good novel with a very creepy setting that simply oozes a chilling atmosphere. The characterisations of The Doctor and Ace are very good. This novel is not quite as good as "Illegal Alien", but then that would be a very difficult novel to match. But it is still highly entertaining and every Who fan should read it.

Rambling storyline masks horror classic
This started very well, with a genuinely creepy and sinister atmosphere pervading, but went downhill rapidly after the Doctor was taken to Liverpool, a side of the story which simply didn't work for me. And what exactly where they doing with the water supply up there? I was never too sure. The political overtones were odd, to say the least, and didn't reaaly belong or contribute. There were a lot of characters and the plot was spread rather thinly amongst them. Several scenes remained confusing and irrelevant to the end, which was also a bit of a let-down and lacking in coherence. Truly nightmarish ideas brought to life by the hollow men though, and interesting continuity with 'The Awakening'. Decent characterisations of The Doctor and Ace, too. Great ideas poorly executed, really. Worth reading all the same.