Review: Doctor Who: Made of Steel by Terrance Dicks

[wshaffer]

Doctor Who: Made of Steel by Terrance Dicks


My rating: 2 of 5 stars
This book is really pretty good for what it is. It's a quick, easy read, and evokes some nostalgic memories of reading Dicks's novelizations when I was younger. Dicks writes a pretty good Tenth Doctor, though I was less happy with his characterization of Martha - at one point, he has her flummoxed by the term "teleportation device", but any companion savvy enough to reference the grandfather paradox on her first trip to the past has got to have enough sci-fi familiarity to know what a teleportation device is.

I am amused that Dicks makes reference to an untelevised adventure in which the Doctor and Martha visited Vesuvius. Someone out there really ought to write some fanfic which has the 7th Doctor and Mel, 10th Doctor and Martha, and 10th Doctor and Donna all racing around Pompeii and just missing each other.

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You're right - I hadn't thought of the timing of Made of Steel, but Dicks did pretty well for someone who probably only saw a script or a synopsis of "Smith and Jones".

I go back and forth between audio and paper editions of the books. The performances on the audios add a lot to the books, but it bothers me a bit that the audio versions are abridged.