Tag: Dan Abnett

Doctor Who: The Forever Trap

Doctor Who: The Forever Trap

by Dan Abnett (BBC Audio, 2008)

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For Doctor Who aficionados this is Paradise Towers meets The Long Game, plus a satire on bureaucracy. Unfortunately, this latter element is ipso facto less than riveting, and once overcome leaves nothing but the standard Tenth Doctor recourse to resolution via knob-twiddling.

 

Doctor Who: The Last Voyage

Doctor Who: The Last Voyage

by Dan Abnett (BBC Audio, 2010)

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The Last Voyage – a somewhat middling spaceship under siege story – would have been a flat read on page, but has some life breathed into it by David Tennant’s engaging narration and redolent-of-Doctor acting. Even so, both premise and prose seem awkwardly belaboured.