Doctor Who Short Trips: Monsters by Ian Farrington


Doctor Who Short Trips: Monsters
Title : Doctor Who Short Trips: Monsters
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ISBN : 1844351106
ISBN-10 : 9781844351107
Language : English
Format Type : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 188
Publication : First published September 1, 2004

Doctor Who Short Trips is a series of themed short story anthologies of new Doctor Who fiction, featuring the Doctor in all of his first eight incarnations. They feature stories written by some of the leading names in Doctor Who, past and present, including Paul Cornell, Gareth Roberts, Christopher H. Bidmead, and Paul Magrs. Whether made of flesh and bone, or created in the deep recesses of the mind, monsters are terrible things. They come after you in the night, when you least expect it; they invade your world when all seems safe. Monsters features stories that tell of such beasts—some real, some imaginary; some alien, some homegrown.

Doctor Who Short Trips: Monsters Reviews

  • Mark Higginbottom

    Another one in the Short Trips series.Number 9 in fact.Yet another mixed bag.These stories really are hit and miss.I think the authors sometimes forget that these are under the title of Doctor Who so therefore we readers would actually like to see the character of the Doctor in the story!It seems sometimes the stories are an idea the author had who then tacked the Doctor on.... fleetingly!I wouldn't say any of these stories were excellent or even very good,they are just.....okay.A tad disappointed..... hopefully the next one will be an improvement!

  • Nicholas Whyte


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    Didn;t grab me as strongly as some of the previous volumes in this series, with some stories (like Marc Platt's) trying too hard and others not trying at all. I did particularly like the very first story, "Best Seller" by Ian Mond and Danny Oz, which has the Eighth Doctor and Chaley pollard encountering a evil book in Australia, and a long satire on reality TV, "Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life" by Anthony Keetch which has the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa faced with a cult sf show on contemporary Earth. I note also a story set in 14th-century Ireland, "Screamager" by Jacqueline Rayner, which brings the Second Doctor and Victoria into contact with the Black Death and is nice enough from the character point of view but not hugely historically satisfactory.

  • Anne

    Not the strongest of the Short Trips anthologies, despite a theme that seems ripe for classic Doctor Who exploration. For me, the stand out was Anthony Keetch's Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life.