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Orac has tracked Space Major Kade – the man who killed Jenna’s father – to the planet Vere.
Jenna wants her revenge, but that must wait. Blake needs her to pilot the Liberator to Stellidar Four, where he has a small window of opportunity to solve the mystery of a new Federation device.
It’s a daring plan. And it could be the beginning of the end for the Liberator crew.
Jenna wants her revenge, but that must wait. Blake needs her to pilot the Liberator to Stellidar Four, where he has a small window of opportunity to solve the mystery of a new Federation device.
It’s a daring plan. And it could be the beginning of the end for the Liberator crew.
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Audio CD
First published April 1, 2014
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About the author
Peter Anghelides
51 books34 followersAnghelides' first published work was the short story "Moving On" in the third volume of the Virgin Decalog collections, which led to further short stories in the fourth collection and then in two of the BBC Short Trips collections that followed. In January 1998, his first novel Kursaal was published as part of BBC Books' Eighth Doctor Adventures series on books. Anghelides subsequently wrote two more novels for the range, Frontier Worlds in November 1999, which was named "Best Eighth Doctor Novel" in the annual Doctor Who Magazine poll of its readers, and the The Ancestor Cell in July 2000 (co-written with departing editor Stephen Cole). The Ancestor Cell was placed ninth in the Top 10 of SFX magazine's "Best SF/Fantasy novelisation or TV tie-in novel" category of that year.
Anghelides also wrote several short stories for a variety of Big Finish Productions' Short Trips and Bernice Summerfield collections. This led, in November 2002, to the production of his first audio adventure for Big Finish, the play Sarah Jane Smith: Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre.
In 2008, he wrote a comic which featured on the Doctor Who website
Anghelides also wrote several short stories for a variety of Big Finish Productions' Short Trips and Bernice Summerfield collections. This led, in November 2002, to the production of his first audio adventure for Big Finish, the play Sarah Jane Smith: Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre.
In 2008, he wrote a comic which featured on the Doctor Who website
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April 11, 2024
I finished this last night right before falling asleep and because my memory leaks like a sieve all I can really remember is that I definitely enjoyed it. Plus Travis pops up in this one and is cold and callous as ever.
The story tries to twist and turn but as soon as we run into Travis we know exactly which direction the plot must take. The story finishes with a fun conundrum, look out Vila!
The story tries to twist and turn but as soon as we run into Travis we know exactly which direction the plot must take. The story finishes with a fun conundrum, look out Vila!
October 10, 2019
After the stunning Battleground/Drones I can't help feeling deeply disappointed with this 4th B7 audio. In terms of continuity it picks up the thread that the Federation have a computer to rival ORAC - FEDORAC and Blake and Avon go in search of it. I was so excited by this idea because the implications are terrifying. Sadly the pay off is really lame - Fedorac is nothing more than a mirror reflecting the information that Orac has sent through Federation channels. The idea of mirrors is further explored as Blake, Avon and Villa are subjected to a psychotropic drug on the automated planet. Blake sees Travis, Avon sees Blake and Villa meets himself - core idea here is awesome but again fails to live up to expectation. This part of the story relies heavily on technology that isn't explained in enough detail and the character elements just fall a bit flat.
Jenna and Cally have a separate adventure on a different planet - going after the officer who killed Jenna's father which turns out to be a ploy by Travis.
The voice cast do a wonderful job and make the most of what is at best a mediocre story with far too many missed opportunities. Travis is superbly villainous and as much as I far prefer Stephen Grief in the role Brian Croucher does OK - with such a distinctive voice, he works well in audio and really gets a chance to shine in this story.
This one's still engaging and a fun B7 adventure, just a biy lacklustre after what has gone before.
Have Cold Fury on hand as this one leaves you on another clifhanger.
Jenna and Cally have a separate adventure on a different planet - going after the officer who killed Jenna's father which turns out to be a ploy by Travis.
The voice cast do a wonderful job and make the most of what is at best a mediocre story with far too many missed opportunities. Travis is superbly villainous and as much as I far prefer Stephen Grief in the role Brian Croucher does OK - with such a distinctive voice, he works well in audio and really gets a chance to shine in this story.
This one's still engaging and a fun B7 adventure, just a biy lacklustre after what has gone before.
Have Cold Fury on hand as this one leaves you on another clifhanger.
July 21, 2022
Big Finish has created an epic adventure that would be at home within the second series or season of the original run of Blake's 7. This story also features multiple plot threads and a more prominent role for Jenna. The story weaves the action between two separate groups, Jenna & Callie; and Blake, Avon & Vila. keeping the Liberator crew separated until almost the end of the story and putting Blake and his group in a death trap that is something that would be standard Federation tactics. Throw in Travis and his vendetta against Blake and you get an awesome battle of wits and some thrilling action.
October 11, 2025
Mirror — Reflections of Reprisal
Peter Anghelides’ Mirror is a meditative, reflective take on a franchise better known for its explosions and betrayals. The novel operates by degrees of perspective: mirrors literal and figurative refract characters into unfamiliar shapes, and Anghelides uses that structural conceit to ask what identity looks like when histories are altered or reconsidered. The result is quieter than many Blake’s 7 entries, but the quiet is purposeful — it allows small emotional shifts to accumulate into meaningful transformation.
Anghelides excels at interiority and the slow reveal. He trusts silence and observation, giving readers time to sit with character contradictions and the residue of choices. Familiar faces are re-examined not for novelty but to uncover latent contradictions: loyalties that look one way in daylight and another in shadow, courage that can be performative or costly, and identity that is as much narrative as fact. The prose is patient, sometimes almost brooding, and rewards readers who are willing to slow their pace.
Pacing is the novel’s chief tension. The introspective arcs occasionally tip into repetition, and several chapters luxuriate in reflection at the expense of forward propulsion. For some readers that will be a feature — Mirror is deliberately contemplative — but it does reduce the book’s dramatic tempo compared with franchise entries designed as thrill rides. Still, when the novel lands, its payoffs are subtle and resonant: a reframed allegiance here, an unexpected confession there, which together deepen the moral textures of the world.
Anghelides’ achievement is to expand the franchise’s emotional range. Mirror is less about immediate revolt and more about the architecture of selfhood under pressure. It is a book that rewards patience and close reading, and that quietly argues reflection can be as transformative as mutiny.
Peter Anghelides’ Mirror is a meditative, reflective take on a franchise better known for its explosions and betrayals. The novel operates by degrees of perspective: mirrors literal and figurative refract characters into unfamiliar shapes, and Anghelides uses that structural conceit to ask what identity looks like when histories are altered or reconsidered. The result is quieter than many Blake’s 7 entries, but the quiet is purposeful — it allows small emotional shifts to accumulate into meaningful transformation.
Anghelides excels at interiority and the slow reveal. He trusts silence and observation, giving readers time to sit with character contradictions and the residue of choices. Familiar faces are re-examined not for novelty but to uncover latent contradictions: loyalties that look one way in daylight and another in shadow, courage that can be performative or costly, and identity that is as much narrative as fact. The prose is patient, sometimes almost brooding, and rewards readers who are willing to slow their pace.
Pacing is the novel’s chief tension. The introspective arcs occasionally tip into repetition, and several chapters luxuriate in reflection at the expense of forward propulsion. For some readers that will be a feature — Mirror is deliberately contemplative — but it does reduce the book’s dramatic tempo compared with franchise entries designed as thrill rides. Still, when the novel lands, its payoffs are subtle and resonant: a reframed allegiance here, an unexpected confession there, which together deepen the moral textures of the world.
Anghelides’ achievement is to expand the franchise’s emotional range. Mirror is less about immediate revolt and more about the architecture of selfhood under pressure. It is a book that rewards patience and close reading, and that quietly argues reflection can be as transformative as mutiny.
August 3, 2022
More shenanigans as the crew variously try to escape pursuit and get their revenge. Very nicely done, though it can be funny how Paul Darrow as Avon tries to make every single line sound as evil as possible, however mundane.
September 29, 2020
Liberator comes to planet where travis thinks he can capture blake.
March 19, 2016
Otro trepidante capítulo de Classic Audio Adventures en donde por fin Brian Croucher vuelve como Travis. Y con un gran cliffhanger.
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