Doctor Who: Companion Piece

Telos Doctor Who Novellas #13

by Mike Tucker, Robert Perry, Colin Midlane (Foreword)

Escaping from one battle and straight into another, the Doctor and his companion. Catherine, find themselves on a far flung world where time travellers are persecuted as witches and warlocks by the Papal Inquisition. The Doctor is arrested, his only hope of escape being Cat, but she has demons of her own to face, and as the Doctor starts to realise exactly what is happening, so time rapidly starts to slip away for both him and Cat.

Genres: Doctor Who, Science Fiction, Fiction, Speculative Fiction

Hardcover

First published December 18, 2003

About the author

Mike Tucker is a special effects expert who worked for many years at the BBC Television Visual Effects Department, and now works as an Effects Supervisor for his own company, The Model Unit. He is also the author of a number of original tv tie-in Doctor Who novels (some co-written with Robert Perry), and three books based on episodes of the television series Merlin. He co-wrote the factual books Ace! The Inside Story of the End of an Era with Sophie Aldred in 1996, and BBC VFX - The Story of the BBC Visual Effects Department with Mat Irvine in 2010.

Reviews

[Nicholas Whyte · Rating 2 out of 5]

http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2748900.html

I really enjoyed Perry and Tucker's novels featuring the Seventh Doctor. This Telos novella, unfortunately but not atypically for that publisher, is way below par. The Doctor and new companion Catherine Broome land on a planet where a rather stereotypical Catholic church has declared all Time Lords to be witches. Various tediously predictable things happen, until the point where the plot ends on a twist shared with Death Comes To Time which independently came out the same year. Rather skippable, and that's the first time I've said that about these authors.

[Numa Parrott · Rating 5 out of 5]

That was a GREAT story but what happened to the end? It was less of a 'Novella' and more of a 'Novel with the end rudely chopped off.'

I loved the portrayal of Seven, and his new companion Cat was much too easy to fall in love with. She reminds me of a female version of Fitz Kreiner (whom the Doctor hasn't met yet at this point, so I'm sure the similarity is coincidental). I wish there were more stories with her.

The plot kept me on the edge of my seat and the bits of philosophizing and Catholicism were handled well.

If you love the Doctor, read it!