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BBC Doctor Who: New Series Audio Exclusives #21
Doctor Who: Snake Bite
Doctor Elehri Mussurana has spent a lifetime on her work. She's guarded her pet project close to her chest, letting only one person share her secret - her husband and lab partner Ernst Wharner. As their experiment reaches its final, glorious fruition, they watch in awe as sparks fly in a sealed chamber and specks of sapphire light begin to join together into a shining haze. A wormhole in time and space is being created...But then something unexpected appears inside the swirling vortex: a tall blue box with the words 'POLICE PUBLIC CALL BOX' on the side. The TARDIS has arrived in the far future, in a scientific research facility - just as reality is ripped at the seams and the universe tears in two...Written specially for audio by Scott Handcock, Snake Bite features the Doctor, Amy and Rory as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the acclaimed BBC TV series. It is read by Frances Barber, who played Madame Kovarian.
Running Time: 1hr 10 mins
Running Time: 1hr 10 mins
1 pages, Audio CD
First published December 6, 2012
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February 10, 2021
This is an audiobook that is based on the television series. It is a quick listen as it is just over an hour. In this one, the Eleventh Doctor with Rory and Amy land on a space station in the future. While there, Amy is separated from the group and ends up on a planet that is dying.
This was a decent story that kept my interest. Basically this story is about an alien species whose planet is dying and is going to invade a planet with a "lesser" species. I like this concept of what does a race do when they have to resort to difficult decisions to survive. I thought the author did a decent job with that aspect of the story. The portrayal of the television characters was nothing special and the same can be said for the narration. Actually, I could say that about every aspect of this book. It was decent and nothing special.
I liked this story and it did hold my interest. As I have said there is nothing remarkable from this story and I will probably forget about it within a month. It was a nice way to kill an hour.
This was a decent story that kept my interest. Basically this story is about an alien species whose planet is dying and is going to invade a planet with a "lesser" species. I like this concept of what does a race do when they have to resort to difficult decisions to survive. I thought the author did a decent job with that aspect of the story. The portrayal of the television characters was nothing special and the same can be said for the narration. Actually, I could say that about every aspect of this book. It was decent and nothing special.
I liked this story and it did hold my interest. As I have said there is nothing remarkable from this story and I will probably forget about it within a month. It was a nice way to kill an hour.
May 7, 2017
Doctor Elehri Mussurana has spent a lifetime on her work. She's guarded her pet project close to her chest, letting only one person share her secret - her husband and lab partner Ernst Wharner. As their experiment reaches its final, glorious fruition, they watch in awe as sparks fly in a sealed chamber and specks of sapphire light begin to join together into a shining haze. A wormhole in time and space is being created...But then something unexpected appears inside the swirling vortex: a tall blue box with the words 'POLICE PUBLIC CALL BOX' on the side. The TARDIS has arrived in the far future, in a scientific research facility - just as reality is ripped at the seams and the universe tears in two...
Written specially for audio by Scott Handcock, Snake Bite features the Doctor, Amy and Rory as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the acclaimed BBC TV series.
It is read by Frances Barber, who played Madame Kovarian.
Running Time: 1hr 10 mins
I love listening to the Doctor Who audios, and this was a good one.
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Written specially for audio by Scott Handcock, Snake Bite features the Doctor, Amy and Rory as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the acclaimed BBC TV series.
It is read by Frances Barber, who played Madame Kovarian.
Running Time: 1hr 10 mins
I love listening to the Doctor Who audios, and this was a good one.
If you like the review and would like to read reviews on other books I have read, visit my blog at www.finalchapterreadersgroup.wordpres... like, comment and follow.
January 21, 2019
I kinda liked this one. The concept was very interesting. This could have been a full length book, because it wrapped up a little too quick.
May 3, 2021
Enjoyable
August 20, 2019
I haven't read all this book yet, but it keeps the reader hooked on doctor who. I have ordered the audio book from amazon, so can't wait to listen to that. I have always been a doctor who fan since I was about 6. Im now in my 30s and still love it, even my daughter loves it. I have all the new series of the new doctor who ond bluray, looking forward to series 12. Im now buying the old episodes frogm the 60s,70s and 80s. When I do buy the books I also buy the audio books so I can listen to them on the go.
November 10, 2017
The TARDIS arrives on a giant space station where an experiment is going on and Amy and the TARDIS get separated from the Doctor. A somewhat typical Doctor Who adventure with one big twist. As a writer, Scott Hancock has a good handle on the TARDIS team of Amy, Rory, and the Doctor. However, the story is hampered by far too much back story and talking heads for a story of this length.
June 23, 2017
Not the best Doctor Who story or narration. Rory and Amy just didn't really "feel" like their characters should, and even the final decision of the Doctor seemed a little out of character to me. The voices and inflections used in the narration also felt "off," particularly for Amy and Rory.
October 22, 2017
I enjoyed it.
July 27, 2020
Great as usual <3
January 28, 2022
Very cool with the wormhole...
February 16, 2025
This was okay. Not a great story to end the collection on but alright overall.
July 16, 2015
Я довольно долго ждала возможности познакомиться с последней аудиокнигой из New Series Audio Exclusives, и наконец-то последняя плюшка из этой Докторской линейки прослушана ;) С моей неспособностью (нежеланием) заканчивать циклы и серии это настоящий аккомплишмент – 21 книга, как-никак.
Название намекает на змеиные тёрки, и история оправдывает ожидания – пришельцами оказываются змееподобные особи. Выяснить хоть один маломальский факт о них оказалось нереально. Хорошие они или плохие? Жертвы обстоятельств или кровожадные завоеватели? Отвечать за всю расу сложно, а единственный представитель, с которым удается познакомиться поближе, страдает кросс-культурными нарушениями психики, абсолютно независимыми от планеты обитания.
Сеттинг своеобразен, точно не первый мой выбор, но бороться с мрачным очарованием погибающего мира и технологическим совершенством космической станции Jörmungandr невозможно. Между прочим, змеиная тема коснулась не только такой очевидной вещи, как раса пришельцев, но и менее явных моментов. Название станции Йормунгард отсылает читателя к морскому змею Эдды, да и ее структура (корабли, соединенные в окружность, кольцом охватывают планету Мидгард) явно намекает на змея, кусающего свой хвост. Совпадение ли то, что именно на этой станции была создана экспериментальная кротовая нора, призванная спасти от гибели змееподобных инопланетных существ? И что в итоге поток будет завернут Доктором в кольцо?
Может быть, на фоне «старого и усталого еврея» Капальди я просто соскучилась по экспрессивному Одиннадцатому, но мне эта небольшая книга понравилась. Сюжет достаточно прост, чтобы не требовалось объяснений; Доктор – это Доктор, всегда дающий второй шанс даже отпетым злодеям; Эми и Рори – замечательный комплект компаньонов; мотивация противоположной стороны достоверна; создание кротовой норы и последствия ее использования достаточно катастрофичны. Достойное завершение серии ;)
annikeh.net
Название намекает на змеиные тёрки, и история оправдывает ожидания – пришельцами оказываются змееподобные особи. Выяснить хоть один маломальский факт о них оказалось нереально. Хорошие они или плохие? Жертвы обстоятельств или кровожадные завоеватели? Отвечать за всю расу сложно, а единственный представитель, с которым удается познакомиться поближе, страдает кросс-культурными нарушениями психики, абсолютно независимыми от планеты обитания.
Сеттинг своеобразен, точно не первый мой выбор, но бороться с мрачным очарованием погибающего мира и технологическим совершенством космической станции Jörmungandr невозможно. Между прочим, змеиная тема коснулась не только такой очевидной вещи, как раса пришельцев, но и менее явных моментов. Название станции Йормунгард отсылает читателя к морскому змею Эдды, да и ее структура (корабли, соединенные в окружность, кольцом охватывают планету Мидгард) явно намекает на змея, кусающего свой хвост. Совпадение ли то, что именно на этой станции была создана экспериментальная кротовая нора, призванная спасти от гибели змееподобных инопланетных существ? И что в итоге поток будет завернут Доктором в кольцо?
Может быть, на фоне «старого и усталого еврея» Капальди я просто соскучилась по экспрессивному Одиннадцатому, но мне эта небольшая книга понравилась. Сюжет достаточно прост, чтобы не требовалось объяснений; Доктор – это Доктор, всегда дающий второй шанс даже отпетым злодеям; Эми и Рори – замечательный комплект компаньонов; мотивация противоположной стороны достоверна; создание кротовой норы и последствия ее использования достаточно катастрофичны. Достойное завершение серии ;)
annikeh.net
August 22, 2015
Published in 2012 by BBC Audiobooks Ltd.
Read by Frances Barber
Duration: 1 hour, 13 minutes
Unabridged
Two physicists are working in a secret lab in a massive space station that literally encircles a planet. Their secret project is kept hidden from everyone - even the power to run it is taken siphoned away from dozens of other locations on the space station. Down below, a unique planet is being studied. In the lab, a a stable wormhole is being perfected. As the wormhole stabilizes, the TARDIS arrives right in the middle of it all. The Doctor (Matt Smith's Doctor) doesn't know where they are at first and he certainly doesn't know why he is there. Once they start to figure things out they discover that things are weirder than they even imagined...
Frances Barber was picked to read this audiobook. The producers tried to tie a little Doctor Who authenticity to the book by picking a Doctor Who alum to read the book. Barber played Madame Kovarian - the Eye Patch Woman who kidnapped Amy Pond's baby. This is a very memorable character and perhaps it would have been better if this character had been in the story because Barber just does not have the rhythms of any of the regular characters. For example, her Amy Pond sounds hesitant and scared. When Amy Pond gets scared, she gets loud and mad, not hesitant. Her portrayal of the Doctor does not have Matt Smith's rapid-fire delivery.
The plot reads like a middle-of-the-road Doctor Who story (not too good, not too bad) but the performance of the reading just wore on me and made it seem slow. About an hour into the story I checked to see if this was a 2 CD set and was very pleased to see that I had misremembered the number of CDs and this story was nearly over.
Read by Frances Barber
Duration: 1 hour, 13 minutes
Unabridged
Two physicists are working in a secret lab in a massive space station that literally encircles a planet. Their secret project is kept hidden from everyone - even the power to run it is taken siphoned away from dozens of other locations on the space station. Down below, a unique planet is being studied. In the lab, a a stable wormhole is being perfected. As the wormhole stabilizes, the TARDIS arrives right in the middle of it all. The Doctor (Matt Smith's Doctor) doesn't know where they are at first and he certainly doesn't know why he is there. Once they start to figure things out they discover that things are weirder than they even imagined...
Frances Barber was picked to read this audiobook. The producers tried to tie a little Doctor Who authenticity to the book by picking a Doctor Who alum to read the book. Barber played Madame Kovarian - the Eye Patch Woman who kidnapped Amy Pond's baby. This is a very memorable character and perhaps it would have been better if this character had been in the story because Barber just does not have the rhythms of any of the regular characters. For example, her Amy Pond sounds hesitant and scared. When Amy Pond gets scared, she gets loud and mad, not hesitant. Her portrayal of the Doctor does not have Matt Smith's rapid-fire delivery.
The plot reads like a middle-of-the-road Doctor Who story (not too good, not too bad) but the performance of the reading just wore on me and made it seem slow. About an hour into the story I checked to see if this was a 2 CD set and was very pleased to see that I had misremembered the number of CDs and this story was nearly over.
May 12, 2013
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2071806.html[return][return]This is the very last Rory/Amy audiobook (unless we return to them in future flashbacks), featuring the old (ie 2010-12) version of the theme tune, with the three turning up on a giant space station called J�rmungandr after the Midgard Serpent; lots of snakey creatures and references, with wormholes and cobra-like aliens. It is surprisingly slow paced for a New Who story (which I don't mind; frenetic doesn't always work for me), and Francis Barber reading it stumbles occasionally over the names (though does a fine rendition of the characters), but it is competent stuff.
May 6, 2016
A good story with a good reader. No amazing accents to note but the reading was well paced.
The Tardis lands and the Doctor convinces Rory to go out to explore before Amy can get to the door. So, of course, the three get separated. The Doctor and Rory end up in a futuristic science lab where Doctor Mussurana is powering up the wormhole she's spent her life working with her husband and lab partner Wharner to create. Amy and the Tardis go through the wormhole and end up across the galaxy.
The Tardis lands and the Doctor convinces Rory to go out to explore before Amy can get to the door. So, of course, the three get separated. The Doctor and Rory end up in a futuristic science lab where Doctor Mussurana is powering up the wormhole she's spent her life working with her husband and lab partner Wharner to create. Amy and the Tardis go through the wormhole and end up across the galaxy.
September 16, 2016
Ehh, it was entertaining but not great. Plot was a bit boring/prdictable. I also tend to prefer a cast member do an audio book from Doctor Who.
May 2, 2013
Fun with wormholes. Liked the premise. And, of course, another story featuring the Ponds.
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