Overall, 2.25, which rounds to just 2 stars. They've ignored such dangling plotlines before, and for once, I'm hoping they'll do so again. Considering how rubbish the villain is, the ending is worryingly left open.
It's also meant to link the first three, with the number 45 actually having some relevance for once, but it ends up being completely unbelievable. THE WORD LORD: I can only assume that this was supposed to be a bit like The Mind Robber, being a somewhat surreal tale of an entity with power over words. Unfortunately, the subplot about Ace's background fails dismally when the voice of the 3-year old child is so utterly unconvincing that I thought it was supposed to be an alien at first. (2/5)ĬASUALTIES OF WAR: An alien artefact has been stolen in post-War London, leading the Doctor on a chase to find it. ORDER OF SIMPLICITY: A mad scientist is trying to advance human knowledge, but is in danger of accidentally destroying all sentient life in the universe as a side-effect (don't you hate it when that happens?) It's a bit of a run-around with flat characters, and honestly, quite dull. It feels cobbled together, but not too bad. At one point our heroes are randomly attacked by a "creodont" (I assume it was intended to be a Hyaenodon, until somebody pointed out that they're 42, not 45, million years old). In much the same fashion as the earlier anthology 100, the stories are all linked by the number 45, although here it's rather more ham-fisted.įALSE GODS: The Doctor visits an Egyptian archaeological dig and gets embroiled in a plot involving time travel. His most recently published or forthcoming work includes a novella entitled It Sustains for Earthling Publications, a Torchwood novel entitled Bay of the Dead, several Doctor Who audios for Big Finish Productions, a follow-up volume to Cinema Macabre entitled Cinema Futura and a new short story collection, Long Shadows, Nightmare Light.Īn anthology of four 30-minute stories released on the 45th anniversary of the TV show's launch. His short stories, novellas, articles and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of anthologies and magazines, and he is editor of the highly-acclaimed Cinema Macabre, a book of fifty horror movie essays by genre luminaries, for which he won the 2007 British Fantasy Award. He has since published a further sixteen novels, among which are Stitch, The Immaculate, The Secret of Anatomy, Fiddleback, The Deluge and four books in the popular Doctor Who range. Mark Morris became a full-time writer in 1988 on the Enterprise Allowance Scheme, and a year later saw the release of his first novel, Toady.
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