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Paul Magrs
Doctor Who: Sick Building
BBC Books (256 pages) 9781846072697
There is such a multiplicity of books linked to The Doctor that I suspect only the most ardent fan knows how to keep track of them all. This example is listed as 'New Series Adventure 17' and is one of the crop of novels published in 2007 and featuring, as the cover montage shows, the David Tennant Doctor with Martha as his companion. It is not written for the young but will be thoroughly enjoyed by many. When lots of tie-in books appear in such quick succession it might mean a shoddy approach to quality but some excellent writers have been commissioned for these editions and there's some really good reading to be found in the books. Paul Magrs is quite rightly a much praised and admired novelist but I doubt if many knowledgeable followers of books for children would associate the title 'Sick Building' with his recent works. The story is set on a planet with a wintry climate and beasts including sabre-toothed tigers. The inhabitants, the Tiermans, live in an automated isolated Dreamhome but this idyll is threatened by the approach of an alien, the Voracious Craw. There are new characters alongside the Doctor and Martha as things get increasingly, and inevitably, desperate and their predicament appears to be impossible.