Product Description

'We are the Nestenes. We have been colonising other planets for a thousand million years.' In the 111th century, nostalgia is everything. TV from the 20th century is the new obsession, and Reef Station One is receiving broadcasts from a distant Earth of the past. Dixon of Dock Green and Z-Cars are ratings winners - and the inhabitants of the New Earth Republic can't get enough. But there are other forces that need Reef Station One. An ancient but dying race sees this human outpost as a last hope for survival...and millionaire Walter J Matheson III sees it as a marvellous business opportunity. When the Doctor and Peri arrive they find a fractured society dependent on film and TV. They also discover that the Republic's greatest entrepreneur is in league with one of the Doctor's oldest enemies. The Doctor and Peri must unravel the link between Matheson's business empire and the Nestenes. Because if they don't, they could end up in the deadliest soap opera of all time...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #514138 in Books
• Published on: 2004-07-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Customer Reviews

A great read!
A great story, interesting and fast moving, and it actually makes perfect sense which is a nice change. The plot is refreshingly straightforward, sometimes creepy, frequently very funny. One of the more enjoyable and worthy adventures in the series

Old foes return
The autons are back. What can I say but one of my favourite and underused old foes of the series have made a welcome return. I wonder if this book was written with an eye on this meance returning in the new series. Anyway, back to matters in hand. The book as a whole doesn't quite gell for me I'm afraid. I like it better when the Doctor is played darker, a bit sinister, as if he could stray from the path of good at anytime, a bit like the mysterious Boag-Munroe character from "a haunted man", by stuart neild. Now that character would make an ideal prototype for a future doctor. Maybe the ninth doctor perhaps?

what a book!!
it's been a while since i read a decent doctor who book to be honest - i gave up on the eigth doctor series after interference 1 and 2 - i figured the departure of a companion as focal as sam was as good a place as any to get off (thought i did read the next couple of books in the series just out of interest - hmmmmmm) - anyway from then on i decided i was only going to read the past doctor adventures and until now i've been disappointed (not professing to have read every single one of course, may be i'm just not good at choosing) - synthespians is brilliant (and i don't use words like that lightly (unlike brackets of course which, as you can see, i use all the time)) - the autons to me were one of the more truly scary enemies that the doctor faced, and indeed one of the ones (apart from the daleks and the cybermen of course) that i remember clearly from the original series - i like the way that craig hinton has set the series in the future, but has managed to make that future 1980's LA - excellent - truly reminiscent of the heady days of big budget american soaps and, indeed, a plastic lifestyle - i couldn't put the book down - written in such a way that just encourages you to read the next segment and the next and the next - the plot is excellent, as are the characterizations - the visual of autons shooting everyone on sight as they marauded through the streets of the cities was spectacular and terrifying - to me it brought back the feeling of doctor who on a saturday night, and hiding behind a cushion (i never went behind the sofa - only pinky and perky terrified me sufficiently for that!!) - good work craig hinton, buying this book was money well spent for me