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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Doctor Who the Eye of the Giant by Christopher Bulis Doctor Who: the Eye of the Giant by Christopher Bulis Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Doctor Who The Eye of the Giant by Christopher Bulis Doctor Who: The Eye of the Giant by Christopher Bulis. The Eye of the Giant by Christopher Bulis. BASIC PLOT The Doctor's attempt to identify a mysterious artificact lead him to a a mysterious island, where he becomes trapped 40 years in the past. Meanwhile, a rash of UFO sightings puts UNIT on the alert. COMPANIONS Liz Shaw, the Brigadier, Mike Yates, Sergeant Benton. MATERIALISATION CIRCUIT None - the TARDIS remains stationary in the UNIT laboratory the entire time. PREPARATORY READING None. CONTINUITY REFERENCES Pg 18 "Scouring the countryside for leftover fragments of Autons or cave lizard devices, and trying to keep too many people from realizing what really happened as you go - it's not exactly what I expected." Spearhead from Space, Doctor Who and the Silurians. Yates's clearing up after the first Auton invasion is mentioned in Terror of the Autons. "Sir John Sudbury of C19." First mentioned in Time-Flight, both Sir John and C19 will be seen shortly in The Scales of Injustice and also features in Business Unusual. C19 has been featured in a number of novels, notably Who Killed Kennedy. Pg 20 "A peculiar freestanding hexagonal control unit" The console is still separated from the TARDIS, as it was in other Season 7 stories. "I got so close during the Inferno project" Inferno. Pg 39 "Space-time visualizer " Seen in The Chase (but see continuity cock-ups) Pg 44 "Remember what happened the last time you tried to improvise something like this with the console?" Inferno. Pg 46 "Come back here at once, man." The Brigadier's line here might be a deliberate echo of his line in Colony in Space. Pg 52 "And what a trophy that head would be!" This might be a reference to a similar line in Carnival of Monsters. Pg 142 "Flying saucers I may give the benefit of the doubt to, ever since the Autons made their invasion attempt with those fake meteorites." Spearhead from Space. Pg 183 "The cosmic intelligence behind the Yeti, the Cybermen, the Nestene Consciousness. " The Web of Fear, The Invasion, Spearhead from Space. Pg 207 "Yes, the Doctor did do splendidly against the Autons, didn't he?" Spearhead from Space. Pg 229 "It's not a parallel world is it Doctor? Like the one you travelled to during the Inferno project?" Inferno. Pg 261 "With the superdrive I recently installed, I think you'll find Bessie is somewhat faster. She also has a built-in kinetic damping force field in lieu of seatbelts." The Time Monster. Pg 287 "'Not this time,' said the Doctor, stepping forward and thrusting out his sonic screwdriver. A small mirror was now mounted on the end." The Doctor also mounts a mirror on the sonic screwdriver in The Curse of Peladon. OLD FRIENDS AND OLD ENEMIES Corporal Osgood (The Daemons), Corporal Bell (The Mind of Evil, The Claws of Axos), General Scobie (Spearhead from Space) NEW FRIENDS AND NEW ENEMIES Amelia, Brokk/Nancy Grover (who have become one joined entity by the novel's conclusion), Pascoe, Montgomery, Dodgeson, de Veer, Miss Ellis, Marshal Grover. Pg 39 "'Space-time visualizer ,' Liz amended." In The Chase, this is called the "Time and Space visualiser" not space-time visualiser (as The Universal Databank maintained, and although it's muffled Hartnell definitely says "and", meaning that the New Zealand fanzine Time-Space Visualiser also got it wrong). Pg 309 Amelia's Christian faith caused her to mutate into an angel, complete with wings - but angels in the Bible don't have wings. Liz misremembered the Doctor's explanation and he doesn't bother to correct her. The ampules use part of Nancy Grover's knowledge as well and she mistakenly thinks angels have wings. FEATURED ALIEN RACES The Grold, eighteen feet tall humanoids with a humped back, six-fingered hands and a large ruby for an eye (page 98). The Semquess, aquatic creatures who use tanks to travel on land. The look like a cross between an octopus and a jellyfish (page 146). They aren't exactly aliens, but the effects of the ampules cause mutations on the island, including giant snakes (page 32), giant ants (page 52). giant crabs (page 69), giant bats (page 82), a giant spider (page 88) and Amelia eventually mutates into an angel (page 309). Brokk/Nancy also causes the ship to come to life (page 296). FEATURED LOCATIONS Pg 1 Aboard the Grold and Semquess ships, c 1884 (50 years earlier than 1934 according to page 147). Pg 5 The Constitution III yacht, June 1934. The Pacific island of Salutua, 1934. Salutua, c 1884, in flashback (page 169). London, c 1971 (it's less than forty years later according to the back cover). IN SUMMARY - Robert Smith? Eye of the Giant is bland, but not awful. The scenes on the island are pretty standard stuff with giant insects and 30s movie stars in an overgrown jungle on a lost island in the Pacific, complete with volcano. Liz even comments on the Boys Own nature of the adventure multiple times. But the link with the present day is cute and the altering of the timeline, though goofy, is actually a lot more fun the second time around. The book could easily have lost a hundred pages and should certainly have lost fifty, but it's a passable adventure in its own right. Doctor Who: The Eye of the Giant by Christopher Bulis. THIS STORY TAKES. place BETWEEN THE. AND THE BIG FINISH AUDIO BOOK "THE BLUE TOOTH." CHRISTOPHER BULIS. RECOMMENDED. OFFICIAL VIRGIN ' MISSING. ADVENTURE' PAPERBACK. (ISBN 0-426-20469-7) RELEASED IN APRIL. legendary lost island. J. Grover�s expedition. arrives to uncover. and exploit its. secrets. But the task. is complicated by a. film star�s fears and. ambitions and a. Nearly forty years. London. The Doctor. and Liz Shaw are. asked to identify a. and trace its origin. The trail leads them. back in time to. Brigadier faces an. epidemic of UFO. threaten to bring. about global panic. Only the Doctor can. mythical island four. decades in the past. Now I was really looking forward to this book. Not because Christopher Bulis is a favourite author of mine or even because the third Doctor is one of my favourite Doctors; au contraire . Generally speaking, I have enjoyed Bulis� previous Doctor Who novels though none of them. I have found to be particularly remarkable. Furthermore, I am not over-keen on the third Doctor � he is just a bit too straight-laced for my liking. So why all the anticipation? Well, in short it is because a�m a massive fan of UNIT. Despite my lack of interest in the apposite Doctor, seasons seven through eleven are some of my favourites (well, maybe not eleven). The Brigadier, Sergeant Benton, Captain Yates, Liz Shaw, Jo Grant, the Master, Bessie, that old science lab � you name it, I love it. The whole era had a unique flavour that has never been matched since. Furthermore, in the only UNIT novel published to date (Paul Leonard�s �Dancing The Code�) I was very impressed with how the author depicted the UNIT organisation and the world that it inhabits. It all seemed so real. We saw UNIT involved in world politics, something. often hinted at on television and explored very lightly in stories like �The Mind of Evil� and �Day of the Daleks�, but never truly made explicit. Similarly, �The Eye of the Giant� gives us some new insight into a bygone era. Taking us right back to the end of season seven, Bulis tells the story of the Doctor escaping his exile for the very first time, and of a dashing young Sergeant named Mike Yates beginning his inexorable rise to Captain. The first 250 pages or so of this novel are spectacular. The desert island setting is evocative, Bulis truly making use of the printed word to tell a story that could never have. been realised on television in the early 1970s. �The Eye of the Giant� is far more than just a monster mash, though. The novel is grounded in some pretty hardcore science fiction; take the eponymous giant, for example. Brokk is a gargantuan alien life form, but he is not just a �big alien�. He is from a world with different gravity and a different climate. He cannot bear the relative cold. He cannot move. He is alien in every sense of the world. The marine Semquess are even farther removed from the usual humanoid aliens that the Doctor encounters, so much so that they have to exist inside small, pressurised tanks. Everything is described so vividly and so well by the author that you really get a feel for these marvellously foreign extraterrestrial menaces. What I felt worked even better were the oversized indigenous life forms on the island. Brokk�s stolen genetic drugs had caused everything from ants to crabs to grow massively in size. We have scenes where gigantic crabs lay siege to the ship and graphically dismember the crew; truly chilling stuff, made all the more scary because you do not have use your imagination all that much to imagine being maimed by a giant crab. However, no matter how good the above side of things is, without a heart and a compelling plot any novel will crash and burn. Thankfully here Bulis has crafted a story that is littered with memorable, sympathetic characters and is constructed around a tried and tested premise. 1934. Millionaire Marshal Grover has taken his sailing ship to the legendary �lost� island of Salutua because he has heard rumours of colossal creatures residing there � creatures that could be used to make the greatest motion picture of all time.
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