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| Original Title: | Timewyrm: Exodus |
| ISBN: | 0426203577 (ISBN13: 9780426203575) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Virgin New Adventures #2, Timewyrm #2 |
| Characters: | The Seventh Doctor, Ace, Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, The War Chief, The Doctor |
| Setting: | United Kingdom Germany |
Terrance Dicks
Paperback | Pages: 234 pages Rating: 3.64 | 1324 Users | 49 Reviews
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| Title | : | Doctor Who: Timewyrm-Exodus (Virgin New Adventures #2) |
| Author | : | Terrance Dicks |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 234 pages |
| Published | : | August 15th 1991 by Virgin Publishing |
| Categories | : | Media Tie In. Doctor Who. Science Fiction. Fiction |
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The pursuit of the Timewyrm leads the Doctor and Ace to London, 1951, and the Festival of Britain -- a celebration of the achievements of this small country, this insignificant corner of the glorious Thousand Year Reich.Someone -- or something -- has been interfering with the time lines, and in order to investigate, the Doctor travels further back in time to the very dawn of the Nazi evil. In the heart of the Germany of the Third Reich, he finds that this little band of thugs and misfits did not take over half the world unaided.
History must be restored to its proper course, and in his attempt to repair the time lines, the Doctor faces the most terrible dilemma he has ever known...
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Hitler wins World War II25 January 2012 The first of these books ran decidedly too close to the original Doctor Who stories, and it seems that in the second instalment of this new series they brought one of the experienced Doctor Who writers into the fold, namely Terrance Dicks. In this story we once again meet up with the Timewyrm (who has possessed Hitler) and also one of his old foes in the form of the Warlords from the episode The War Games (the Warlords are a group of renegade Time Lords).3.5/5I'm not sure if the Timewyrm is really interesting enough to sustain a four book cycle, to be honest. Still, I enjoyed this a bit more than the last one...it helps that Dicks, whatever my problems with him are, is an experienced writer for the series and knows how to start a story off, so at least we don't have to deal with a character like Gilgamesh for several chapters before the Doctor and Ace start properly interacting with the plot. I found the first part in alternate 1951 England to
As a kid, I grew up reading the Target novelisations of the Doctor Who stories. We didn't have digital archives (or even videos!) in those days - when you saw an episode on Saturday night, you only had your memories to remind you and, later, the Terrence Dicks version of the story in print. (Or even to read those earlier stories which you were too young to have seen.)And Dicks had a reputation. Yes, he had written for the tv show, but he was best known for turning out these straight-forward
The first 'Act' of Timewyrm Exodus is bold, fresh and exciting. It's clear that Terrence Dicks understands the characters of the Doctor and Ace, has plenty of interesting ideas, and fulfils his reputation for dependability as a writer with simple, lucid prose and excellent pacing. As the story goes on, although still enjoyable, it becomes much more traditional, clichéd and, characteristically for the VNAs so far, ends up a little overstuffed with past continuity. In fact, it turns out that the
Last month, I re-read Timewyrm: Genesys for the first time in two decades. John Peel kick-started the New Adventures with the first of a four-part series, and while this resulted in a Doctor Who story that would have easily earned an 18+ certification if filmed, it didn't quite fulfill the promise for taking the Who-niverse in a more mature direction. Bare-breasted teenage prostitutes and hacked-off limbs can only take one so far, and after that you need a story that rises to the occasion.
After a reading a string of reviews that suggested Timewyrm: Exodus built on the successes (or failures, depending on your perspective)of the first new Adventures novel, I felt a little disappointed that I ultimately didn't enjoy it a lot more than its predecessor. It's a less experimental novel in many ways, Dicks doesn't try anything unusual with characterisation or technique, instead bringing his wealth of experience writing the Target novels to the table and producing something that's
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