‘A quivering line of faceless horrors marched steadily towards him. Too astonished to challenge them, or even to give the alarm, he simply opened fire…’
A mysterious black hole has appeared. Elsewhere a small number of people have disappeared. Are the two events connected? Of course they are. Don’t be expecting a great work of literature. It’s pulp that moves at a lighting pace, and should be enjoyed as such. It even has menacing blobs of jelly (that’s UK jelly, not the American kind) running around terrorising innocent people; pure pulp.
It’s based on an actual four episode arc of the Doctor Who TV series that was originally broadcast from December 1972 to January 1973. It didn't take 39 years to appear, it’s a reprint of the original Target edition (Doctor Who Library #64) published in 1975 . The text is exactly as it was before; including some awkward grammar that would give a modern editor worry lines.
Like the title and the artwork reveal, it features three incarnations of the Doctor, the first three: William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee. If they can quit squabbling like children for a minute or three they might just be able to stop Mr derpy helmet, who's even more dangerous than the Master.
3 anomalies within impossibilities out of 5
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