Lawrence Miles – Five Miles Out

Just what the truth is, I can’t say anymore

I like time travel as a concept. Two of my favourite books as a young teenage were The End of Eternity (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/08/30/life-has-begun/ ) and Up The Line. Doctor Who includes time travel, but almost always as a device to move the story to a location rather than something to be examined or used. The reasonContinue reading “Just what the truth is, I can’t say anymore”

After Virgin lost the licence to print Doctor Who novels (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/11/01/lets-all-meet-up-in-the-year-2000/ ) they had enough characters and concepts that they had created to continue the series. The lead character was the popular companion Benny Summerfield. She had to be split up from her husband Jason Kane (there are no happy ever afters in continuing fictionContinue reading “You cry out in your sleep”

Some people did not like the Doctor Who New Adventures (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/11/01/lets-all-meet-up-in-the-year-2000/ ) claiming that they were not in the spirit of the program or that the plotlines were too complicated. I think Virgin books got it right as you cannot sustain a book series on a monster of the month in a novel with aContinue reading “War In Heaven”