Product Description

An adventure featuring the Eighth Doctor with Fitz and Anji. The heroes are used to finding themselves in different times, eras long before or long after the ones into which they were born. But when these eras come equipped with Hilton hotels and luxury theme parks, it's a different matter. In the 1950s, the Good Time Travel Company has discovered time travel in a big way - it's now time tourism, in fact - and they're not about to let go of their profits easily, no matter what some Doctor guy ssays about the fragility of the time/space continuum. But the ensuing paradoxes mean that chaos is swiftly encroaching on the happy day trips to Roman orgies. Something has to be done, before it engulfs the whole of time!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #470043 in Books
• Published on: 2003-06-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Customer Reviews

What the - ?
It's hard to know what to say about this book. Leonard really gives the sense of having some very good ideas in this book, that of time travel being used to sell package holidays being one of them, showcasing the effects that the fall of the Timelords has had. The scope of the book really is huge, and characterisation is also strong.

The book's written, however, in a way that makes it almost incomprehensible. For the most part, I had little idea what was happening. The chapters do not take place in any linear order, and there are multiple versions of each event and character as the timelines begin to unravel and overlap. Whilst this is another great idea, the execution of it here results in little more than chaos. The book is very well written, and each of the individual chapters is reasonably enjoyable, but how they're meant to make up a coherent whole I have no idea. As someone else who read the book commented, the majority of the book could be replaced with 'And then some stuff happened' and the plot would progress just as clearly.

I've heard of one reader producing a flow-chart from the events here in an effort to work out exactly what happens - but if a book takes that much effort to understand, then how can it ever be classed as enjoyable? I'm all for challenging books, and my favourites in the range are usually those that challenge and innovate, but this is just a muddle.

Ultimately, it was just incredibly boring.
There was a good idea at the heart of this book but so badly executed as to make it all but unreadable.

Mostly, I was confused. I didn't have a clue what was going on much of the time - and it's not as if I'm ignorant of quantum physics, parallel universes and the theories of time travel, they're something of a speciality of mine - but it all hung on such a thin and perplexing plot with so much needless repetition and feeble characterisation I just couldn't maintain enough interest to bother with the effort of making sense of it all.