From: doctor@bluemoon.rn.com (Klugh,Daniel)
Subject: Re: Virgin Novels
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 21:05:27 EDT

danaf@bray1a.its.rpi.edu (Frank R. Dana Jr.) writes:

> In article <1992Sep17.134218.5756@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, wrw5473@ritvax.isc.rit.e
> |> 
> |> Does anyone know the release schedules and upcoming titles for any Virgin
> |> "New Adventures" books?  I didn't even know NIGHTSHADE was coming out unti
> |> saw it in the bookstore, and the book doesn't list any projected future
> |> releases.  I'd also like to know what people thought of NIGHTSHADE-  I
> |> thought it pretty good, though not near something like REVELATION(my favor
> |> so far), and it seemed to me to have a Tom Baker feel to it, though with
> |> Sylvester's doctor implanted within, although a couple of aspects were
> |> strange enough to approach "Ghostlight" oddness.....
> 
> How can anyone NOT put Exodus at top!?!?!?   8)

I liked Exodus.It was great watching the Doctor get into all that 
political intrigue and such.Quite brill!

> 
> Just kidding... but Terrance Dicks is my hero. Revelation pulls a close secon
> tho.
> 
> I don't think it was very T.Baker-ish. I got a very strong feel of the Sevent
> Doctor from it - the torturing, all consuming conscience, the chaos in the mi
> of any 900-year-old man (ever wonder why Time Lords all seem to go bonkers by
> the 11th or 12th incarnation?). Those more serious aspects of the show have o
> begun to be used to their fullest. 
> 
I was always saying that anyone that was THAT old would sure be different 
than anyone we've ever seen before.

I thought that this book was closer to a horror novel than sci-fi.
Kind of like a Dean R. Koontz book.
Koontz writes horror stories but there's nothing supernatural about 
them.Everything has a rational explanation.Like the Doctor said to 
Leela,nothing's inexplicable,only unexplained.
(note that,like drwho,psionics are not considered supernatural.
of course,maybe supernatural really means superPHYSICAL.In which case 
there would be things that would fit into that catagory)
It reminded me of Koontz's book "Phantoms".If anyone's read the both books 
they'll see what I mean.
Nightshade was also one of the more emotional of the stories.The whole 
thing of having to let go of people.

> P.S> Anyone NOT know they were inside the Doctor's mind by about the second
> page of Ace's travels within... ? I like my sci-fi unpredictable.

Actualy I just thought it was a powerful computer/mind until a bit into 
the book.

> 
> The one nice thing about having a fan writer, tho (nice work, Paul!) is that
> they write fiction the FANs can appreciate. There were a lot of little touche
> hidden in the text that the casual reader would never have seen.
> 
> |> Thankyakindly
> |> 
> |> 	Walter White : wrw5473@isc.rit.edu
> 
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